[Johliatay]

I have a huge bloom of green algae growing on my tank. I cleaned it two days ago, and today, it was so thick, I could hardly see in my tank in certain spots. Does anyone have any ideas how I could control this algae growth, and what sort of things I could use to prevent it blooming so heavily?
I have a 65gal with 192watt compact flourescent. I have a rio 2500 in my wet/dry, and a rio 800 powerhead in my tank. Please let me know any and all ideas. Thanks.

[organicreefer]

hermits(yes!even blue leggers, omg!),yellow tang,sallylightfoot crab,emerald crab,etc.etc........

[David]

Ideas? Sure. Let me preface by saying this is all my opinion, others may dissagree. I think you have an outrageously high level of ecxess nutrients in your tank. Anytime there are excess nutrients in your aquarium something will pop up to consume them, commonly this will be unwanted algae. The following suggestions will reduce or eliminate excess nutrients and/or control unwanted algaes: 1) It's the water- use only the best RO/DI water you can get. 2) Don't overfeed. 3) Add snails to OR's list of critters above, turbo's or astrea's or both. 4) Add poly-filter or phosphate pad to sump 5) Add competing (desireable) algae like caulerpa. 6) Major water change. 7) Get copy of Bob Goems book "Algae Controll Secrets".
8) Encourage coraline growth to limit space available to slime or hair algaes. 9) Use dsb or plenum. 10) ... gee, that's all I can think of right now. Good luck.

[organicreefer]

yeah ,thats what i meant
i just didnt use those words
good answer david