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FriedButter

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Temstar said:
There's no solution to getting rid of algae that's "set and forget", it's a constant battle. The best you can do is keep a bunch of algae eating fish in your water to reduce the amount of manual work needed.
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It's going to be tremendous, really tremendous. We're going to take all this water. 6.75 million gallons of water. A lot of water and we're going to replace it. With what, you ask? Epoxy. That's right, epoxy. The best epoxy. Nobody knows more about epoxy than me. So strong. So durable. So reflective. It's going to be incredible. Much better than this water, which frankly, is a total leaky disaster. A mess. We'll have epoxy, and it's going to be fantastic.
 
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Temstar said:
There's no solution to getting rid of algae that's "set and forget", it's a constant battle. The best you can do is keep a bunch of algae eating fish in your water to reduce the amount of manual work needed.
- someone who tried to keep a high tech aquarium (CO2 injection, high light, substrate and daily liquid fertiliser) for a year and eventually gave up due to the amount of cleaning I had to do

Those damn thing have billions of years evolution behind them to spread everywhere and survive in the harshest conditions. Unless you want your water to be smell like one of those highly chlorinated swimming pool they're going to get in and grow. You need active systems just to keep the worse of it away.

In fact draining the container and doing a total clean then filling it back up with water makes it worse. Because you've just destroyed whatever ecosystem that might have developed in the water before, some of that ecosystem might have actually completed for resources with algae. Now you start over and algae going to be the first thing that gets back in with no competition and it will totally take over.
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Reduce light period, use shrimp. Neocaridina are pretty and will get the job done but if you get a string algae invasion, you'll need Amano shrimp. Shimp-heavy tanks should be low maintenance with algae totally under control.
 
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manqiangrexue said:
Reduce light period, use shrimp. Neocaridina are pretty and will get the job done but if you get a string algae invasion, you'll need Amano shrimp. Shimp-heavy tanks should be low maintenance with algae totally under control.
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It might work for the Reflecting Pool but it wouldn't have worked for my tank - I tried putting cherry shrimps in my tank but my fishes saw them as fancy dinner.
 
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