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Originally Posted by Mr Pheer
And then I noticed some hair algae. A small amount at first but it grew quickly. Was constantly plucking it off the reef and doing everything I could to get rid of it. For months this went on. I could not keep it away, even with 50% water changes weekly. it became a huge consumption of my time and lots of work. i started to hate that tank.
I sold all the fish and invertibrates, the lights, the sump, the skimmer. And then gave away the tank and stand just to get it out of my house.
I still have a very nice, large, UV water sterilizer. Dont know why I'm hanging on to that. It will work well on a freshwater tank if I ever decide to build one.
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Yep, same thing happened to me last year with my tank, after 5 years all of a sudden my whole tank became a hair algae mess, started to hate it, did weekly water changes, tried some new equipment, was very close to quitting and selling it all.
Then my RO/DI filter was giving me problems so I went to the grocery store and bough 30 gallons of Zephyr Hills DRINKING water (this is their highly filtered 0 TDS water not to be confused with "spring water".) and after doing no water changes and only using the bottle water, a month later all the algae was gone! ALL OF IT!
Even though my RO/DI system was putting out ZERO TDS on every meter I could find to test it, it was causing non stop algae blooms. Everytime I changed the water, added top off water I was just making it worse.
So now my tank is free of algae and I haven't changed the water in 3 months. Happy tank owner again, everything is thriving!