Flip my rocks upside down?

[gemini9]

Trying to clean up some of the algae in my tank. Removed my equipment and gave it a good scrub. I was wondering your thoughts on flipping some rock upside down? I noticed on my rocks, that the top side has algae, but the underside is pure white, with no algae or anything. Sooooo I was thinking about maybe... flipping some rocks upside down? :nerd: Would that help/hurt anything? I don't have anything attached to my rocks as of yet so I can flip and rotate at will.


I also ordered some PhosGuard to hep better control the algae because I really don't feel I should have to clean my tank as often as I do. It's a pain scraping algae off the glass every other day and cleaning my equipment every month. I've toned my lights down a bit and have them on for 9 hours.

 

[Reefing Madness]

Can't hurt to flip the rocks over.

 

[twpilot]

I did it to mine and it helped. Try not leaving the lights on as long ,water changes and give it some time and it will clear up

 

[gemini9]

Flipped my rocks over and noticed my firefish is missing. I can't find the little guy anywhere and he's not in his usual hiding spot. This may be sort of a silly question, but I'm worried that I can't find him. Is it possible... maybe I smooshed him with a rock or something? I looked around in all the places I could see and I can't find him. Poor Spooky. he disappeared!

 

[biomek]

Filefish I usually skiddish, my guess is with all of the activity going on he probably relocated. Check your overflow?

 

[Rob Top1]

+1 on your goby hiding. I don't see him sitting still to be squashed. Now that you have flipped your rocks the algae that is no longer in the light will die off. Have you formulated a plan to deal with the influx of nutrients from that die off? With out one the algae will just come back I'm afraid