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Message: <blockquote data-quote="djf91" data-source="post: 10695015" data-attributes="member: 125534"><p>Great write up! I’ve been dealing with what I assume is Lyngbya on and off for the past year. I beat it around the 9 month mark by weekly scrubbing, 24 hour photoperiod on my algae scrubber, and boosting my alkalinity to support corraline growth. </p><p></p><p>For whatever reason though it popped back up around the 13 month mark. I think this could have been caused by a drop in alkalinity, adding a 75 gallon refugium, or removing the algae scrubber. Anyways here I am back to scrubbing all of the rocks in a 500 gallon display weekly and I think I may finally be making the progress. A few additional observations: this Lyngbya seems to be toxic to snails and it also seems to gain the advantage when there is instability in the ecosystem.</p><p></p><p>I think this organism is very common in the hobby these days, especially in dry rock started systems. It’s far too often misidentified as hair algae.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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