Destroy that algae

[vetteguy53081]

Been thinking if this for a while and it works fantastic, I got a cheap Wisdom electric brush £4 wrapped it in a food bag and very tightly around the neck at the brush and banded it solid and around the handle ,ripped through the hair algae like a strimmer with hardly any pressure,also around individual heads ,bit dusty afterwards ,but today I've turned off flow and given it a light syphon to get rid of waste, hey why not use the partners one ,saves you buying another ,they'll never know !..thank me later ha ,that mess in the pics took 2 minutes

Very ingenious but best is manual despite this working for you. Everyone has their own success method and should be accepted with respect whether its a disagreeable approach or not.
If you dont have cleaner crew, add some and then them do the labor for you. Some snails such as astrea, turbo grazers, cerith, nerite and trochus are good workers

 

[vetteguy53081]

So can you assure me it doesn't affect macro ?? Phytoplankton etc etc etc ??.. I can have an experiment here if your correct ..one tank with brush and one with peroxide

Peroxide will affect Macro and is an oxidizer in the water. Dumping in liquids is an alternative and not always a solution

 

[Clanger]

Very ingenious but best is manual despite this working for you. Everyone has their own success method and should be accepted with respect whether its a disagreeable approach or not.
If you dont have cleaner crew, add some and then them do the labor for you. Some snails such as astrea, turbo grazers, cerith, nerite and trochus are good workers

I've got them all buddy ,lawn mower blenny ,who won't touch the hair algae, hermits and emerald crab ,goes without saying a tang will be next on the list , howeverrrrr, do you not think there is a heck of a lot of disturbance with manual, the sawing action and the amount of pressure applied with chance of dislodging stuff, you just park the leccy and let it do its stuff ..tis alllll personal preference ha . Cheers for the info as always

 

[xiongsy]

This sounds like a great idea, especially for the low hard to reach areas on the glass!

 

[xiongsy]

Now just gotta find where that old electrical toothbrush went.

 

[Clanger]

Brilliant! Will have to give this a go. I tried once with a regular toothbrush and it was very difficult.

I knocked loads of stuff over ,frag plugs ,abd couldnt get to where i wanted ,yep I'm a dope ha

 

[laezur]

I knocked loads of stuff over ,frag plugs ,abd couldnt get to where i wanted ,yep I'm a dope ha

Everytime I go in my tank I'm really paranoid and wear this massive blue pond gloves, so I lose basically all fine movement with my fingers, especially as the pressure of the water makes the gloves crumple in around my hands... so I'm always knocking stuff over. I don't know how people do any work in their tank, unless they just don't use gloves but I always have little cuts and would so easily end up putting myself in A&E hahahah

 

[Bucs20fan]

Everytime I go in my tank I'm really paranoid and wear this massive blue pond gloves, so I lose basically all fine movement with my fingers, especially as the pressure of the water makes the gloves crumple in around my hands... so I'm always knocking stuff over. I don't know how people do any work in their tank, unless they just don't use gloves but I always have little cuts and would so easily end up putting myself in A&E hahahah

I roll the dice LOL, no gloves for me. Ive paid for it a time or two but ya know. Hard Headed.

 

[laezur]

I roll the dice LOL, no gloves for me. Ive paid for it a time or two but ya know. Hard Headed.

Haha what price did you pay, what happened?

 

[Bucs20fan]

Haha what price did you pay, what happened?

Hah, which time? Between a finger full of bristleworm spines, a cut that got infected. Getting stabbed by my foxface. Pinched by an emerald crab. Thankfully torches and anemones dont affect my skin like others or I would be Toast.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I've got them all buddy ,lawn mower blenny ,who won't touch the hair algae, hermits and emerald crab ,goes without saying a tang will be next on the list , howeverrrrr, do you not think there is a heck of a lot of disturbance with manual, the sawing action and the amount of pressure applied with chance of dislodging stuff, you just park the leccy and let it do its stuff ..tis alllll personal preference ha . Cheers for the info as always

You dont wantto get vigorous with it. Idea is to loosen and remove. Its best done in a container of tank water but at times I realize thats not feasible

 

[Clanger]

This sounds like a great idea, especially for the low hard to reach areas on the glass!

You might need a more expensive one for that awful solid stuff with different stiffness brushes esp if it's been on a while, this one's around medium but does the job ,or clear with a blade and scrub as you see it form ..this is only my advice and not set in stone (got to be careful what you say ha )

 

[Clanger]

Hah, which time? Between a finger full of bristleworm spines, a cut that got infected. Getting stabbed by my foxface. Pinched by an emerald crab. Thankfully torches and anemones dont affect my skin like others or I would be Toast.

Ha ha You need a gauntlet going in with my 2 inch clarkie

 

[Clanger]

You dont wantto get vigorous with it. Idea is to loosen and remove. Its best done in a container of tank water but at times I realize thats not feasible

Certainly not in mine ,it is all cemented together as I have sprung floors and a 50kg German shep pounding about the place ,some frags are fine as they've just been placed ..as I said in another reply I am your Guinea pig, I will be testing and watching the tank as I "garden " it and will post the outcome in a couple of weeks ,but in the meantime it's GONE ha

 

[I never finish anythi]

Dosing peroxide is pretty safe, you can dose that into your tank. I did while I was fighting algae.

It can crash the tank if not done correctly.

 

[Bucs20fan]

It can crash the tank if not done correctly.

As can anything not done correctly. But peroxide turns to water after a couple hours. So of the things you can dose, peroxide is about as safe as you can get.

 

[Clanger]

It can crash the tank if not done correctly.

I've also took one lump of rock out before that wasn't fixed and peroxided with paintbrush all over, left for five mins and placed in a bucket of water same great result but that's as far as I can go with moving stuff

 

[I never finish anythi]

As can anything not done correctly. But peroxide turns to water after a couple hours. So of the things you can dose, peroxide is about as safe as you can get.

Don't think it works like that . Doesn't hydrogen peroxide need doc on the water column to dissipate?

I've also took one lump of rock out before that wasn't fixed and peroxided with paintbrush all over, left for five mins and placed in a bucket of water same great result but that's as far as I can go with moving stuff

Using on a rock ,frag out of the tank is ok . But dosing in to the DT I wouldn't recommend tbh .

 

[Clanger]

As can anything not done correctly. But peroxide turns to water after a couple hours. So of the things you can dose, peroxide is about as safe as you can

 

[Bucs20fan]

Don't think it works like that . Doesn't hydrogen peroxide need doc on the water column to dissipate?
Using on a rock ,frag out of the tank is ok . But dosing in to the DT I wouldn't recommend tbh .

H2o2 does infact become H2o after, on average, 4 hours. being added to a marine aquarium.

The dirtier the water, as in nitrates and phosphates, the quicker this happens.