Algae on base of corals

Bakerrr1010 · Dec 23, 2015

It's there something I can do to help prevent the algae growing on the base of my frags. Tree corals and small polyps. I feel like they will eventually be smothered especially the small polyps

twilliard · Dec 23, 2015

Are they on plugs?
If you can still handle them peroxide just up to the coral

RMS18 · Dec 23, 2015

What kind of algae? You can take the piece out and scrub the plug with a brush. It could grow back just like normal algae does on the glass.

Bakerrr1010 · Dec 24, 2015

twilliard said:
Are they on plugs?
If you can still handle them peroxide just up to the coral

Yeah they are on plugs , thanks for the advice ! I wasn't sure if it was okay to be messing with the plugs all the time

Bakerrr1010 · Dec 24, 2015

Bmwm235i said:
What kind of algae? You can take the piece out and scrub the plug with a brush. It could grow back just like normal algae does on the glass.

It looks to me like some hair algae and your average green algae. Why do I find algae to be a bihher problem in saltwater then any of my freshwater tanks

RMS18 · Dec 24, 2015

Bakerrr1010 said:
It looks to me like some hair algae and your average green algae. Why do I find algae to be a bihher problem in saltwater then any of my freshwater tanks

Well in most freshwater tank there is a wider availability of plant life that is used to help compete with the consumption of excess nutrients. In saltwater we don't have these options besides cheato that we use in out sumps. So this allows algea to grow more in our tanks.