GHA combat, please Help !

[claudio wagner]

Hello folks,

What is the best way to get rid of GHA.

I recently tried to mechanically remove from the main rock of my Nano but it raised all again.

Any suggestion?

 

[brandon429]

Let's do a test rock first vs whole tank


Take out one rock and use a steak knife tip to scrape algae off a test section. That's like what you just tried but metal removes better, it's like an urchin rasp. New step: put regular hydrogen peroxide on the cleaned spot let sit 1 minute outside tank. Rinse off set Rock back check in five days I bet test area looks great, upscale

 

[brandon429]

If that test works, we then clean out your entire nano especially the sandbed from all its waste, start clean without gha feed as a skip cycle cleaning event

there is no time in nano reefing that it is beneficial long term to kill algae off inside a system using dosers or water param starvation, and then the target mass becomes part of the detritus sink that causes the original bloom.

to have a nano means its accessible vs inaccessible, and you were willing to access it for direct work-we can do wonders with that.

big tank=too big to work on so they store waste nearly always and use dilution to offset the issue, for a while. they will dose something, wait, or change params to starve algae, and wait, end date isn't known.

nano=can be fixed by specifically 6 pm tonite.

see that difference, its all in the hesitation game or not. cleaning out the nano of cloudy detritus resets its lifespan, helps kill off the invader from growback, and makes the corals stand out like gems. Its a directed reef storm event which brings in oxygenated clean water and removes acid-producing whole waste matter from rotting and clogging all the pore surface area.

I know a no-clean up crew nano reef that hasnt seen green hair algae in eight years, due to spending the first seven hand guiding and building up coralline

(coralline resists gha physically, gha choose non-coralline attachment points nearly always)

keep your surfaces rasped, not brushed and coralline fills in vs plants, it takes gardening like we're preventing dandelions out back/ GHA control in nanos should never be about what you added to the water to kill it


thats what short term nanos do, long term nanos are gha free without any meds or additives.

 

[claudio wagner]

Thank you @brandon429 , will try your suggestion, but certainly will not be 6 pm tonight... LOL. There is just *one* big "Sansibar Rock" where I have some corals glued to it. Taking that rock out would be a war operation... I will assume that the corals glued to the rocks will resist to this procedure being out of the water for at least 1 hour... they are 2 GSPs , 1 Xenia and 1 Montipora frag. Will keep you posted.Thanks again for your interest. Regards Claudio

 

[brandon429]

check this out: corals in air for 33 mins



just to show you I take my own medicine/expose my own reef to all trials and tribs


**Claudio we can mist your exposed rock with saltwater in a mister

it would keep for hours in that condition

check out my air drain (it demonstrates live rock wont recycle when in the air unassisted, you can be save with misting from a spray bottle and get hours. it shows how tough corals are--those are mixed sps and lps. mushrooms themselves can go hours in the air but we wont push that far)

its just neat to see how tough reefs actually are vs the weak mode api protrays them to be, by always posting .25 for every partial move.




And 12 hours later, have done this hundreds of times the reef is about 15 years old.


See how once the reef is all coral and coralline there's no where for algae to attach? It's not about parameter starving


It's about having strong coral growth to outcompete space and until then, you rasp

Here's a big thread showing the rasping job in 100 reef tanks

Reef2Reef Pest algae challenge thread hydrogen peroxide

Thank you for the quick reply and guidance. it Is a Waterbox 100.3 so a take down is fairly easy. Went through it to get all the fish out a month ago and is no problem. All corals on plugs aside from the nem so that is also a non issue. Conchs, snails, hermits, fire and cleaner shrimp is all...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[claudio wagner]

check this out: corals in air for 33 mins



just to show you I take my own medicine/expose my own reef to all trials and tribs


**Claudio we can mist your exposed rock with saltwater in a mister

it would keep for hours in that condition

check out my air drain (it demonstrates live rock wont recycle when in the air unassisted, you can be save with misting from a spray bottle and get hours. it shows how tough corals are--those are mixed sps and lps. mushrooms themselves can go hours in the air but we wont push that far)

its just neat to see how tough reefs actually are vs the weak mode api protrays them to be, by always posting .25 for every partial move.




And 12 hours later, have done this hundreds of times the reef is about 15 years old.


See how once the reef is all coral and coralline there's no where for algae to attach? It's not about parameter starving


It's about having strong coral growth to outcompete space and until then, you rasp

Here's a big thread showing the rasping job in 100 reef tanks

Reef2Reef Pest algae challenge thread hydrogen peroxide

Thank you for the quick reply and guidance. it Is a Waterbox 100.3 so a take down is fairly easy. Went through it to get all the fish out a month ago and is no problem. All corals on plugs aside from the nem so that is also a non issue. Conchs, snails, hermits, fire and cleaner shrimp is all...

www.reef2reef.com

Never think of using Mist. Great. Thanks again !