Are you following our Super Simple Start-up Recipe? http://pool9.net/ssr/ If not, what all have you done thus far?

You don't need to run your pump 24/7. That just wastes electricity and runs your power bill up. You can cut the run time way back. I run mine for probably 6-8 hours per day. If you want, you can do it in a couple of blocks of about 4 hours each time.

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