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cycle (algae) stages
« on: April 06, 2009, 21:31:24 »
when setting up the 150 gallon I tried to use as much of the water from the 75 as I could, and I used all of the live rock from the 75.  I am still using my old refigium in efforts to help curb/speed up the process.

just wondering (its been forever since I set up a tank) what are the stages of cylcing for the algae (right now I have very little brown algae showing up) nothing major.


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Re: cycle (algae) stages
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2009, 21:38:55 »
It depends.  Typically there's a diatom bloom, then cyano, then green hair algae, followed by coralline and sometimes bubble algae.  You can have several at once or skip some. 

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Re: cycle (algae) stages
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2009, 21:57:59 »
can you do anything to help stop or speed this process along?  GFO, water changes??  its not bad by any means.. just not use to seeing algae in the main tank

 

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