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    No need then. Just scrape it all off and run it 10 days.

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    Cool, I will tomorrow afternoon. I should scrape it all off and clean the screen until it's white? I think there is quite a bit of Dinoflagellates growing on it.

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    You want to get all the slime off so that green hair can attach.

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    I can see tufts of green hair algae on it. Should I leave those? Or scrape them off?

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    Scape them off; they will still be inside the holes, and will grow back faster.

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    I scraped them off. And Placed the screen back. The next morning the bits of green algae that were inside the holes went from nice and bright green to white. What would cause this? Also the screen turned brown.

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    It's normal. Just let it grow.

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    ok cool. I didn't know it was normal for the green algae to turn white. That's reassuring.

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    Should I be feeding as heavy as the screen should handle as it's establishing, or should I just wait until it's established? I just did a water change to bring the nitrates down.

    Also, will the ATS help with my dinoflagellates? I've tried researching how to take care of them, one place says reduce nutrients, another says increase them. It's a lot of conflicting information. XD

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    Wait until it's growing more.

    Dino's are the first to go; they are easy to handle once your scrubber is working. Cyano, and bubble algae, and the last to go and the hardest.

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