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Message: [QUOTE="JohnHuff, post: 175176, member: 4156"] Fact: Algae means you have excess nutrients. I never bother with uv since that just masks your symptoms. If you kill the algae, then the excess nutrients will just poison your fish. Best get rid of your nutrients, which is the cause of your algae problem. 1) You must decrease the amount of food you feed your fish. 2) Do a few 30% water changes. You don't need to pay someone $750 to do that. 3) Add plants. Plants will take away the nutrients your algae need. I found the easiest way is to add a temporary plant scrubber. Get a floating ring and add duckweek to it. The duckweek will multiply and suck up the nutrients. Once the floating ring is full, remove some of the duckweed, repeat. [/QUOTE]