Excessive coralline algae

Planedoc · Aug 3, 2013

I'm cleaning my power heads today. I started with one of the worst ones. I'm soaking in vinegar and scraping and scrubbing. Any better ideas to get this stuff off?

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Reef Pets · Aug 3, 2013

That's a crazy amount of coralline! Vinegar will probably do the best job of cleaning.

kateater · Aug 3, 2013

Insane amount! You will probobly need to soak that for a day or so in a potent mix of vinegar.

TrialandError · Aug 3, 2013

A porcupine urchin would have that clean in no time lol

Country0922 · Aug 3, 2013

Wow what are you dosing to have that much coralline algae build up unless your tank has been up for awhile

Planedoc · Aug 3, 2013

It's been in there about a year. I just use red Sea's coral pro salt. This tank does not have a lot of coral in it. I planned on waiting for year before adding any. I used 100#s Marco rock and 50#s live rock. Lately I've been having cyano problems, I think because of the reduced flow from the powerheads. Hopefully getting this thick stuff off will help. 100% vinegar seems to soften it up pretty quickly. About a half hour of scraping and scrubbing each powerhead

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Duffam3434 · Aug 3, 2013

That made quite the difference!! Ive never seen that much build up before!

navila06 · Aug 3, 2013

you missed a spot...:tongue:

Planedoc said:
It's been in there about a year. I just use red Sea's coral pro salt. This tank does not have a lot of coral in it. I planned on waiting for year before adding any. I used 100#s Marco rock and 50#s live rock. Lately I've been having cyano problems, I think because of the reduced flow from the powerheads. Hopefully getting this thick stuff off will help. 100% vinegar seems to soften it up pretty quickly. About a half hour of scraping and scrubbing each powerhead

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