agree its very low level, easy. sometimes I worry if they'll post this:
(poster mainsalt in our challenge thread, could quite possibly be a nutrient issue lol)
factors: you have two peroxide sensitive animals in the tank, the cleaner shrimp and the anemone. none of the fish are a concern nor the other corals.
Cleaner shrimp die in the order of 90% when exposed to any form of peroxide and we list them as the single most sensitive organisms we know to it. so, this is external treaments and work, not easy dumping in tank. we treat hundreds of tanks with cleaner shrimp by working externally. lucky you to have an accessible rock scape, a true factor in being algae free after a few days from now if predictions pan out
no anemones have been lost in our threads to peroxide, but they act mad and shrivel up when people dump peroxide in their tanks so again that precludes the easy job everyone wants of just dump some peroxide in the tank.
The right step here is to see if you even want to do the method, and if not, consider the nutrient options. If that was my tank, I for sure would do the method and still use the nutrient changes but in a different way, as preventative. I wouldn't use further po4 chasing to be the remover here, you have a risk of overstripping the tank. I would separate the two actions based on that pic and details above.
clean up crews and nutrient controls work better, great, as preventatives and never the algae remover, that's such a huge secret in my opinion. all my aquariums are immune to algae problems and this is how I got there
predict your growback to be low to highly acceptable such that you will like the method, you're already employing more nutrient controls than I do, you just have some grazers missing and we are now considering cheating around that.
A simple non committal test w tell us
take the most easily lifted out GHA rock you can get to, lift it out, and pour peroxide from a brand new unopened/not previously half flat bottle from medicine cabinet (run get some fresh 'ide) on the algae parts wet them good. let that rock sit in air for 3 mins, rinse off w clean tank water outside the tank so there is no peroxide, and put back in tank. rinse very well and the shrimp will not die. don't scrub or remove the algae, we watch to see if it responds and we've done nothing large scale or risky to the tank whatsoever. we haven't changed your major course with this specific test. post update pics couple days after a test area
I think it will be white in that test area within 48 hours if you soaked it good or at least clearly dying, and then another few days to fall off or have your CUC attack the treated areas because they love the taste of burnt algae.
this as a perfect candidate for peroxide in spite of my pure bias as there are only a few select areas that want a spot zap.
would keep up nutrient controls, employ better grazers, but I bet we clean that stuff right out over the course of the next week and if it doesn't follow suit you have one heck of an outlier tank.
even if you do not choose peroxide that's so low level its not a real concern, something w eat it eventually. casual viewers prob wouldn't notice that algae, but the owner knows every nuance of the tank and I too would want all algae gone even though its natural and is adapted to sharing space among corals on natural reefs. You could just as easily spot treat with tech M and use no peroxide, my angle is the direct attack and good sustainment one
(poster mainsalt in our challenge thread, could quite possibly be a nutrient issue lol)
factors: you have two peroxide sensitive animals in the tank, the cleaner shrimp and the anemone. none of the fish are a concern nor the other corals.
Cleaner shrimp die in the order of 90% when exposed to any form of peroxide and we list them as the single most sensitive organisms we know to it. so, this is external treaments and work, not easy dumping in tank. we treat hundreds of tanks with cleaner shrimp by working externally. lucky you to have an accessible rock scape, a true factor in being algae free after a few days from now if predictions pan out
no anemones have been lost in our threads to peroxide, but they act mad and shrivel up when people dump peroxide in their tanks so again that precludes the easy job everyone wants of just dump some peroxide in the tank.
The right step here is to see if you even want to do the method, and if not, consider the nutrient options. If that was my tank, I for sure would do the method and still use the nutrient changes but in a different way, as preventative. I wouldn't use further po4 chasing to be the remover here, you have a risk of overstripping the tank. I would separate the two actions based on that pic and details above.
clean up crews and nutrient controls work better, great, as preventatives and never the algae remover, that's such a huge secret in my opinion. all my aquariums are immune to algae problems and this is how I got there
predict your growback to be low to highly acceptable such that you will like the method, you're already employing more nutrient controls than I do, you just have some grazers missing and we are now considering cheating around that.
A simple non committal test w tell us
take the most easily lifted out GHA rock you can get to, lift it out, and pour peroxide from a brand new unopened/not previously half flat bottle from medicine cabinet (run get some fresh 'ide) on the algae parts wet them good. let that rock sit in air for 3 mins, rinse off w clean tank water outside the tank so there is no peroxide, and put back in tank. rinse very well and the shrimp will not die. don't scrub or remove the algae, we watch to see if it responds and we've done nothing large scale or risky to the tank whatsoever. we haven't changed your major course with this specific test. post update pics couple days after a test area
I think it will be white in that test area within 48 hours if you soaked it good or at least clearly dying, and then another few days to fall off or have your CUC attack the treated areas because they love the taste of burnt algae.
this as a perfect candidate for peroxide in spite of my pure bias as there are only a few select areas that want a spot zap.
would keep up nutrient controls, employ better grazers, but I bet we clean that stuff right out over the course of the next week and if it doesn't follow suit you have one heck of an outlier tank.
even if you do not choose peroxide that's so low level its not a real concern, something w eat it eventually. casual viewers prob wouldn't notice that algae, but the owner knows every nuance of the tank and I too would want all algae gone even though its natural and is adapted to sharing space among corals on natural reefs. You could just as easily spot treat with tech M and use no peroxide, my angle is the direct attack and good sustainment one
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