Was my decision to switch a mistake?

[RobertG]

I would not worry about your salt. Make sure the RO Water you are using is not leaching phosphates into your tank. I once had 1000+ blue leg hermits roaming the tank munching away. Never had to deal with the algae after that. Phosphates is my first guess. Gotta be coming from somewhere. Not salt in IMO. Good luck!

[cbianco]

Brainfart! I just remembered something!

Recently, about a week ago Louis at AW tested my water for Phosphate and told me that he was getting a reading of .2 if I remember correctly. I have NEVER tested for phosphates before.


If I am not mistaking .2 is quite high. Has anyone had luck with phosphate sponge or another type of phosphate remover?
Christopher

[Shark_Bait]

I like the Seachem phospate sponge... I think it removes it pretty quickly.. But on the other hand if you forget that you put it in or what ever it will start to leech it back into the system. As long as you rember to take it out when the system drops it's what works for me.

and get a test kit! Remeber you get what you pay for as test kits go.

[JimD]

>Lawnmower< blennies dont sift sand, theyre algae eaters for the most part and they normaly wont eat filimentatious hair algae, they will however eat the shorter layer thats left behind after manual removal. Some have been successfully trained to eat frozen brine or whatever. There, youve been corrected. :-)