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Hydrogen Peroxide 3%, 1ml per 10g of liquid volume in your reef, dosed daily for 8 days.

Any thoughts on getting rid of dinoflagelates???

I don't know if I did or didn't. I was out of town and not on facebook much lately.

Marc did you see the photo I posted?

I'll post a picture to facebook Marc. I have difficulties posting to this page.

Kitch, let's see a picture. That sounds a lot like Dinoflagellates.

We are still trying to bring the po4 down as well. Would it hurt to treat it with chemiclean too???

This stuff looks like cyano algae but its on the rocks in long strands.Its picking up littlebubbles and hangs straight up

Green slime algae as in green cyano bacteria? It can bloom this time of year. Lots of sunlight, less shade due to the leaves falling off the trees...

What wattage and color temperature and how old is it

We've got a small compact florescent over the sump

What kind of lights do you have over the cheato?

Thanks, it's a lot of fun. Just have to save up some money for another dive trip this year.

Thanks Marc...one of our powerheafs had died and the new one just showed up
I made dure to point it towards the surgace and thatdid it.
Congrats on you recent scuba certification! Something
I also hope to do:-);-):-)

A powerhead pointed at the surface helps a lot. You can peel it off by laying sheets of printer paper on the surface, then lift it off carefully and the stuff will stick to the paper.

Stangchris is right on. Make sure your alk, mag, and calc are in their proper ranges and walk away. My pH floats around 7.9 no matter what I do, and only gets slightly better if I prop the windows open on the few days in Texas where the temperature allows for that.

How are you measuring pH? A meter or a test kit? What are your other measurements of salinity, alk, ca, and mg? And how are you measuring all of these specifically?

I would stop dosing additives and possibly do several smaller water changes through the week if it is really worrying you. Also what buffer did you use and what buffer did you switch to? I am just curious about that

never chase ph leave it alone!! so many factors in ph swings, oxygen levels in house and other things. what was low to you. i run a 150g sps tank full of colonies and my ph was 7.4-7.5 with no real probs then it started dropping to 7.0 stressing stuff out. so i added a kalk reactor and now i hold steady at 7.7-7.8 abnd all my coral and fish are fine. what im saying is unless its extremly low let your tank do its thing, stability is better than parameters swinging around.

can we get some more specifics about your tank? what size is it? how long has it been running? what is the calcium and alkalinity at currently? also what is your maintenance schedule like?