Major Algae Problems

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Hi everyone, I'm in a bit of a situation here. I got this sweet job a couple weeks ago to reseal this clients..well lets just call it a 'tank' for the sake of argument here. Well we resealed this bad boy with the best waterproof sealant we could find, some rhino lining actually. Everything went smoothly but now the client has a ton of algae in the tank. And the rhino lining looks like **** but thats what the customer wanted. He's kind of a ******* honestly. He wants us to kill the algae with hydrogen peroxide now, he says that "chatgbp" told him this was the best idea. So we dumped about 15,000 dollars worth of hydrogen peroxide into the tank and I know it's not going to work, but hell it aint my money and I'm getting paid to do it. Anyway, this tank is like 6 million gallons of water and its outside so we might have to put a little more hydrogen peroxide in it. ANyone have any ideas on how we could fix this?
 

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Welcome to Reef2Reef!

#Welcome to Reef2Reef!

While I did chuckle at your post, we do refrain from political discussions here on R2R 🙂
 

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I bet a sea hare would get rid of all that algae in no time!

I can also recommend 50% water change daily until nutrient levels are back under control. Let's see... 3,000,000 gallons... you need between 3.96 ⋅ 10¹² and 4.43 ⋅ 10¹² grams of salt. 😂
 
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Dude please, you got to try to take a pic. A 6 million gallon outdoor tank thats full of algae with $15000 worth of peroxide dumped in deserves a picture.
 

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Dude please, you got to try to take a pic. A 6 million gallon outdoor tank thats full of algae with $15000 worth of peroxide dumped in deserves a picture.
Turn on a US news station, you'll see the tank 🙃
 

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