GHA & Dinos

[Elsa Vasquez]

Ok I scrapped the rock as much as I could. I have a ricordea attached to the rock that i couldn’t get off along with my anemone, which if now ticked, but I scrubbed it as much as I could. I will now suck out as much of the Dino’s from the sand and hope they go TF away!!!

 

[Elsa Vasquez]

Huge difference already <3!!! Oh man I hope it’s all improvements from now

 

[brandon429]

Did you use peroxide on the spot after scraping off the target

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

Looks way better already!!! Did you clean the sand under the rocks? Also you may have to do this weekly or biweekly for a couple times to knock it out. Get an urchin or two. This is part of my tank that was covered in gha six weeks ago. There’s still a tuft or two, but you can see how clean my rocks are. Also my tuxedo urchin is in the pic center under the ring of Coraline on the glass. He’s wearing his cheato and gha outfit. It’s so funny what he caries around.

 

[Elsa Vasquez]

Did you use peroxide on the spot after scraping off the target

That I totally forgot to do ugh!! So I will scrape again Friday and do it. I got some of it off but there’s still a lot in there

 

[Elsa Vasquez]

Looks way better already!!! Did you clean the sand under the rocks? Also you may have to do this weekly or biweekly for a couple times to knock it out. Get an urchin or two. This is part of my tank that was covered in gha six weeks ago. There’s still a tuft or two, but you can see how clean my rocks are. Also my tuxedo urchin is in the pic center under the ring of Coraline on the glass. He’s wearing his cheato and gha outfit. It’s so funny what he caries around.

Yes I will definitely continue to do it. I did clean under the rock. I syphoned sand/Dino’s through a filter sock and put the same water back. That I will continue to do every chance I get. Yes I see the small amount left in your rock at the bottom but definitely a lot better. Looking great hope mine looks that clear soon

 

[High ICP]

H2O2 is like Roundup to GHA

 

[brandon429]

its ok to go back and rework, the hands on approach is evolving and it amounts to taking back ground.

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

That rock is a baseball size chunk that I cleaned only half of. I wanted to see what my urchins would and would not mow down. They don’t like long hair algae. They will mow down short to medium. I also added the tangs a week ago after a six week qt. They are doing a Great job also, but only occasionally nip the long hair algae. I only cleaned under 2/3 of my rock work. Next week I will do the rest and the other half of my sump. I feel that not letting detritus build up has a great effect on water quality and sps. I’m just realizing this as I cleaned half my sump and it came out like coffee water. I thought it was pretty clean, I was wrong.

 

[brandon429]

Algae tufts are self wicking nutrient traps

Particles are degrading on site in the allowed mass, feeding independent of water tests due to localized uptake

Manual removal reduces community support


We can take any algae coated rock example here, strike up a cell phone vid, move that rock to center tank water and twist around. A clouding comes off always. That’s what we’re removing with the manual rasping

The mop and the stuff it wicked up

Yes agreed detritus isn’t bad in all systems, Randy HF from the chem forum had a notable layer in his sump and Paul isn’t concerned about it in his tanks

But

In any invasion scenario nothing beats manually killing an invader with a cheat approach + cleaning out the detritus feed, it makes strong results in short time. If you aren’t invaded, some detritus sitting there piled up might not hurt

But if we want an invasion to go away, and be able to focus our N and P stores more in the food we feed vs the diaper, we clean that waste and it works well for all tanks

 

[Bpainter3]

It’s like he’s trying to speak to me I know it