Acro care

[DraggingTail]

I see skeleton at the base, do you know if that recession happened while in your tank?

Usually algae on an acro means that part is dead. If there is a dead spot in the crevice where the branches meet, you may not have enough flow to clear out debris. Flow and stability is essential in sps. Random indirect flow is best, they can tolerate a lot. If that piece of algae is really whipping around in the current your good probably good.

Tips almost look burnt to me but its hard to tell from the picture. Are you sticking with a certain type of salt? Are your salts mixed parameters close to that of your tank? How stable is your Temp?

Yes the algae is whipping around but I want to scrub it off. Is that ok to do?

 

[Stickboy15]

I would not do acros without a dosing pump and dosing and using a hob filter is a no no, can you tell us more about your set up

 

[DraggingTail]

I would not do acros without a dosing pump and dosing and using a hob filter is a no no, can you tell us more about your set up

55 gallon with a cannister filter and a 400W metal halide with a 20 K radium. Cannister filter has 2 matrix containers and filter floss in others. 80 lbs of dry rock. Tank is 5 months old. I do 10% water changes weekly and dose 10ml of Kent purple Tech every night

Tank parameters log below

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...RdChcCXN_XPrurixjkQD8e_pVVA/edit?usp=drivesdk

 

[mtraylor]

Can I use my brush on the Acro? He has some algae on him.

TBO. Your aquarium is very young and not mature enough at the moment to help sustain that acro properly. It will be a battle, but stay on top of it as you are. Keeping the algae down is a good Idea. A light brushing at this point will not hurt things anymore. The algae is winning the battle at the moment. Try not to harm the flesh if you can. From the looks of your aquarium, its still going through break in period, so the algae will come back fairly quickly. You may want to dip to help it.

You need to concentrate on stability of the tank. Unfortunately you will have to let the aquarium do its thing and go through the process. Once it becomes more mature. The areas will be able to heal on their own without algae issues. That just seems to be the phase you are going through right now. With allot of algae, the coral will not be able to heal properly.

I scrub my coral frag plugs on frag rack that get algae with too brush with no issues, but there is not algae on the coral. If you get algae on a coral on a branch per say.....its best just to cut that branch off and let if heal. In your instance if you did that, the algae would succumb the area and continue to kill the coral. You are on your way to stability, but it just takes time. Keep the coral as clean as you can as you get your aquarium into check. Good luck.

 

[DraggingTail]

TBO. Your aquarium is very young and not mature enough at the moment to help sustain that acro properly. It will be a battle, but stay on top of it as you are. Keeping the algae down is a good Idea. A light brushing at this point will not hurt things anymore. The algae is winning the battle at the moment. Try not to harm the flesh if you can. From the looks of your aquarium, its still going through break in period, so the algae will come back fairly quickly. You may want to dip to help it.

You need to concentrate on stability of the tank. Unfortunately you will have to let the aquarium do its thing and go through the process. Once it becomes more mature. The areas will be able to heal on their own without algae issues. That just seems to be the phase you are going through right now. With allot of algae, the coral will not be able to heal properly.

I scrub my coral frag plugs on frag rack that get algae with too brush with no issues, but there is not algae on the coral. If you get algae on a coral on a branch per say.....its best just to cut that branch off and let if heal. In your instance if you did that, the algae would succumb the area and continue to kill the coral. You are on your way to stability, but it just takes time. Keep the coral as clean as you can as you get your aquarium into check. Good luck.

FYI. That algae was on there when I bought it. It is a redish algae. I guess it's a learning experience. It appears at this point that I got ripped off. $80 wasted

 

[mtraylor]

Oh ok I see. From the picture, I thought you were referring to what looks like green algae growing on the end of all the newly branches trying to grow. Maybe thats just the picture colors. If you are just worried about the red algae that you see. Dont even bother with that stuff. If you have a tang or algae eater in the aquarium. It will take care of that tasty morsel.