Bay Area Reefers

Had a little issue with this guy, as I have this nasty back current along the bottom of my tank which pulls just anything that isn't glued down towards one area.. where a big honking favite type coral is that loves to send out feeders at night... so I moved it to my sunlit frag tank, and I think I just found a picture of what sexy is... yum..

Nice colors!

Damn, but that is nice.

Subech's are great "surprise" corals.

Now everybody will ask Mike to let his favites sting their frags

Man, I am having a major algae issue which I can't put my finger on that just seems to be growing everywhere.  I've cut my feedings in half to fish, I've doubled my water change regimen.  Only thing I can think of is that I switched to Reef Crystals and maybe there's some miracle grow or something in it BLEH.. but I haven't had the time to spot feed any of them, only time I seem to have is to manually pick the algae off to keep it from completely over taking the coral.

sorry to hear that Mike, I have been using RC with no issues.  There is got to be another cause....my bioload is huge compare to yours.  Any pics of the coral or tank.

The sub-echinata looks good - I wish I picked up one of these as well.

Mike - if you're running calcium reactor check to see if the bottom of the reactor hasn't turned to mud from low ph.  Dirty sump can be another factor.  If you pulled out any soft corals that were absorbing the nutrients can all cause algae blooms.

As far as Reef Crystals - I'm on my fourth bucket now and haven't had any greater algae issues other than the hair algae had a few months ago.

Mike, you might check your pH.

I switched from 2-part to mostly kalk and just a little 2-part. Algae melted away over a couple weeks, and my skimmer ran wet taking out the organics. Figured it was due to the higher pH.