Phos-Zorb

To be honest, you had. The bryopsis or whatever it is I have (I'm questioning mine now...) had absolutely burnt me out on keeping tanks. I've gone so far as to call my LFS inquiring about them taking my fish.... But, someone posted in GCC the other day and it made me remember how much I like this crap =) So, I came to read, posted a few times, and now I know I'm not gonna give it up.

PZ update.. I did a water change and algae harvest Wednesday night and installed the PZ pouch in my filter. So far knock on wood) I see no re-growth of the algae. Normally, it would be fuzzing up by the next morning but so far, nada. Infact, on the rock my BTA lives on, I was unable to get all of it off manually. However, those patches seem to be gone. Also, my Foxface has been picking at it more than usual.

If this little $9 bag of white powder does the trick, I'm personally gonna go to the company that makes it and kiss the owner. =)
 
The heater comment rings so true with me. Mine is (or was, I scraped it clean) covered with it, paicularly on the coil section. Must be the heat, I guess this crud likes it hot.
 
Seriously, my heater was absolutely covered with this gunk. I took it out and rinsed it off in the sink, and the regrowth came mostly on the coils. I have found that my snails and my urchin are doing some pretty decent work on the glass against this green menace, and it appears that my blue legged hermits and emerald crab are trying their hardest to rid the LR, substrate, and dead coral of algae. I think that my cleaner shrimp is even getting in on the act. I saw him on the glass happily picking at hair algae. I'm not seeing much regrowth since adding the P-Z a week ago.

My turbos used to clean the heater, but no one goes near it now. Maybe this is why the algae has gotten out of control there... or maybe this stuff just likes the heat.
 
Update

I just thought I would add a little blurb about the incredible success I have had with phos-zorb in the last few days. My QT tank was suffering quite a diatom bloom.... not anymore. My show tank looks much better, as the green hair algae is NOT regrowing as it is eaten by my inverts.

One side note, my two blue legged hermits have doubled in size during the last month. I am quite certain this is due in no small part to the sheer abundance of hair algae for them to feast on.
 
Wonderful to hear, and I have a bit of an update of my own..

Ok, for a few days after I put the PZ in the tank, my BTA seemed to withdraw. I'd read that PZ and other phosphate removers contain aluminum and that aluminum is not great for inverts. However, my BTA has since re-opened and there is an interesting development. It appears, still early and very hard to see from the angle of the thing, but it appears to have a second mouth/orifice..... Could this be the early stages of a split? Color me excited folks =)

As for the algae, so far so good. No regrowth on the known hot spots (anemone's rock, skimmer box and another rock it seems paticularly pleased with..) and overall the "green" look of the tank seems to be dissipating.
 
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