I'd rather have Dinos

[jd371]

Yep, I'd rather have Dino than the Turf algae I have now. I've tried everything to get rid of this tuff and it still persistent. From Flucanazole treatments to CUC that was known to eat this stuff I've tried everything under the sun and nothing worked. I've had Dinos now in two different tanks and was able to get rid of that within a month both times, but this turf algae comes from the depths of hell and doesn't want to leave! Rant over.

This is when it wasn't that bad yet. Eventually I had to move that Millie because it was getting smothered and those Zoas on the bottom are gone now completely overrun by the algae. The bare rock is covered now also.

 

[motortrendz]

I deal with turf as well too. It's terrible. And you cant just pull it off rocks, cant scrub it off. So far only thing that's worked for me was the fluconazole. But once it's gone it stays gone for a few months then slowly creeps back in.

 

[Bayareareefer18]

I currently have some small bits of it. I'm wondering, can it be spot treated with peroxide ?

 

[csb123]

Spot treatments work well. I order 12% peroxide on amazon which really kills them. Just use 1/4 the volume of your usual dose.

 

[jd371]

Spot treatments work well. I order 12% peroxide on amazon which really kills them. Just use 1/4 the volume of your usual dose.

Is this in tank treatment, do you just squirt some over the algae? This rock is big and unable to be removed.

 

[Mark Gray]

OH no not me took me a year to get rid of Dino's killed everything except the fish. I prayed for anything but Dino's lol this was the first time I have ever had Dino's in over 40 years of saltwater tanks. but think I got it now.

 

[csb123]

Is this in tank treatment, do you just squirt some over the algae? This rock is big and unable to be removed.

With the peroxide, I attach a syringe to rigid airline tubing, put the pumps on feed mode, and squirt the peroxide into the base of the hair algae clump. In a few seconds it starts to fizz oxygen bubbles. The next day the algae looks ratty and pale. Sometimes a particular clump needs a second treatment. If it is bryopsis, 3-4 treatments are needed to kill the roots. My Goni’s and Duncan corals look irritated for an hour, but they always bounce back. I’ve done this many times.

 

[brandon429]

Removing that whole rock for external rasping first, detailed dental accuracy rasping target with a sharp knife tip, and then peroxide, is the swing vote to messing around further with a tank killer or forcing it out. TA requires only that we find a reason not to directly access it to win. Yes agreed sometimes, water dosers work

You mentioned the rock can't be removed

Are you meaning concern about losing those fine attached animals/system upset or do you mean if someone offered you three thousand bucks (guess cost of your reef time and investment) you could not find a way to lift that whole thing out in a piece or two? If it breaks in half, that's not going to kill the attached items/frag down the middle line then reposition back in tank after surgery

If that rock was sitting on my counter I could keep those animals alive for ten hours with just a mister bottle of saltwater. Try to find a way to work with just a test area first, not whole jump off. See how it dies and regrows before upscaling the big job, you'll know it's behavior after testing


In tank work is restrictive

On the counter imagine this: rasp. Peroxide. Then when you put it back, dose fluconazole in the clean condition vs the invaded one everyone works from

Seize the reef by force.

I can't even see your invader but I know you can

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