Hey id like to start a thread about posts or quotes from people on the web that really made a difference. It can be something that made you understand something well, or sometning that made you change your reefing philosophy. Reef related of course. The only thing id like to see is the subject line above the post. I'll start.
Algae:
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Algae is never caused by one thing. It needs ALL of a source of nitrogen, phosphate, various trace elements (e.g., iron), sufficient light, a place to grow, freedom from herbivores, etc. An excessively high amount of any of these isn't likely to make algae any worse than if there is simply "enough".
If you take away any one of those, the problem will recede, and different reefers achieve less algae using a variety of these different requirements.
It is certainly possible that the algae is taking up any available phosphate. It may also be getting it locally from the skeletons it is attached to (at least for a while, till that source is depleted)."
Randy Holmes farley
Algae:
"
Algae is never caused by one thing. It needs ALL of a source of nitrogen, phosphate, various trace elements (e.g., iron), sufficient light, a place to grow, freedom from herbivores, etc. An excessively high amount of any of these isn't likely to make algae any worse than if there is simply "enough".
If you take away any one of those, the problem will recede, and different reefers achieve less algae using a variety of these different requirements.
It is certainly possible that the algae is taking up any available phosphate. It may also be getting it locally from the skeletons it is attached to (at least for a while, till that source is depleted)."
Randy Holmes farley