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You should have a bypass valve next to the flow restrictor. If not, you can unhook the flow restrictor and let it run into the drain for a few minutes. If you want a bypass and you don't have one, airwaterice or the filter guys sells them.
You should have two solid block carbon filters to remove the chlorine. The 5 micron ones don't remove the chlorine. The first filter should be a spun poly filter (the solid type, not a wrapped one) You may have damaged your ro membrane from the chlorine, so I would flush it for awhile after you...
I dosed sodium ascorbate in my tank on monday after using warner marines reef snow a few days prior. For the last three days my skimmer has been going insane and bubbling over with a stream coming out of the overflow cup attachment. I put some carbon in a bag in the sump under my return line. I...
If you can remove the rock and get really annoyed you could spray it down with hydrogen peroxide and let it soak in for about 5-10 minutes. It will kill some of the bacteria in the rock, but it should kill the algae as well.