I wish you'd put this thread to the challenge, we dare any nano with an algae challenge to give us a run, saw you at 32 and just had to relay the option~
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/reef2reef-pest-algae-challenge-thread-hydrogen-peroxide.187042/
If anyone applies the tenets of a cloudless sandbed, absolute external work on rocks with metal rasp and direct peroxide, using skip cycle access and cleaning biology, then we claim in that thread you won't be invaded. It's claimed in the thread that invasions in a nano reef are caused by doing the opposite of the steps shown, full invasions are willed into existence and the uninvaded tank is re willed into a different existence by easy work.
All invaded reefs are hands off reefs...that's a common denom
All we have to do is force out invader so coralline and coral can be planted in its place. Waiting for algae to slowly starve is one common option and we think it is unideal because it subjects corals to stress. Better to blast clean the tank and remove the detritus. that's a storm, not a bleaching event like robbing phosphate
Proportion of repeat guiding work is relative to delay time for action. Both nanos and large tanks will work, but nanos are easily parted and cleaned out vs six foot tanks.
Being invasion free is about removing the fuel for the invasion along with the invader, using means that don't stress coral. We do that. Also, test rock pre modeling beats any known system for algae control because you don't have to subject the entire tank to a test run, like when someone begins starving nutrients to try and kill algae, we'd never take that route. What we do is model a kill step on a rock, if it stays clean pretty well we then de cloud the tank of waste in a big cleaning, apply the kill step to rest of tank during access, and rework the rocks as needed planting more corals along the way. The only nutrients we care about are topoff water, use distilled or ro with di
Nine years of tank work is linked on page one there.
