Tuffyyyyy
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Pull that out if you can and clean it off with a toothbrush. That’s the quickest way to get al that stuff off. Just don’t pull it out too long so the bacteria doesn’t die off.Here’s some better pictures of the algae
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They don’t mind spending money I just try to keep it as low as possible I will probably need to order online because they prefer that
I’ll look into the fish you recommended as well as working on a decent crew for the cleaning
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That appears to be either a lovely monoculture of hair algae or wire turf algae. Having that kind of growth requires a significant source of phosphates over a sustained period of time. I suspect that the tank has been well fed and under cleaned for no less than 3 years.
These kind of algae invasions require the help of an expert imo, and we have one here @brandon429
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Clean it before you add any fish. It will make your client happy once it is done.
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Yellow eye tang, lawnmower blenny and rabbitfish should mow on this algae. To me, looks like a job for a Sea Hare !!
Is it possible to get access to 125 gallons of new water to clean the tank out properly / kill all the algae and clean it off when taken apart vs waiting for it to subside without deep cleaning the tank
I’ll run some water tests tonight and let you all know what I findI've only run this tank for a couple months so it’s likely that is the case
So right now I’m looking at a good mix of turbo,nassarious, and turban snails a tuxedo Urchin and a cleaner shrimp
So right now I’m looking at a good mix of turbo,nassarious, and turban snails a tuxedo Urchin and a cleaner shrimp
Cleaner shrimp are great critters, they wont touch your algae though.
I dealt with a similar looking GHA infestation in a tank I got second hand. It looks much worse than it really is. Be glad you're fighting gha.
A neat way to see this restore is two choices
one is disassemble clean it where the algae is removed outside of the vs melted inside or slowly picked at by an animal, which in turn converts the algae into whole waste pellets that still has to be removed or else it fuels more algae. You’d clean the sand out too, then re assemble the same surfaces but they’d be clean and free of algae.
another option is dose fluconazole to easily kill the algae over several months but you’re left with dead algae needing export, on top of detritus already there in the sand and rocks.
nothing else works as well as taking the tank apart, cleaning sand and rock, and putting back together without waste or plant mass to degrade inside. We are needing all new water for the redo.
if none of that is possible then restoration will only be temporary, you’ll have to manually de cloud that tank of its current waste stores and plant mass before it ever remains fixed. If you kill the algae in place on top of current sand and rocks that are pent up with waste the tank will revert back to this within a year, whoever owns this needs to pay you for a true restoration job
one is disassemble clean it where the algae is removed outside of the vs melted inside or slowly picked at by an animal, which in turn converts the algae into whole waste pellets that still has to be removed or else it fuels more algae. You’d clean the sand out too, then re assemble the same surfaces but they’d be clean and free of algae.
another option is dose fluconazole to easily kill the algae over several months but you’re left with dead algae needing export, on top of detritus already there in the sand and rocks.
nothing else works as well as taking the tank apart, cleaning sand and rock, and putting back together without waste or plant mass to degrade inside. We are needing all new water for the redo.
if none of that is possible then restoration will only be temporary, you’ll have to manually de cloud that tank of its current waste stores and plant mass before it ever remains fixed. If you kill the algae in place on top of current sand and rocks that are pent up with waste the tank will revert back to this within a year, whoever owns this needs to pay you for a true restoration job
Here is one, read this
he does the exact steps you’d do, but at the rock disassembly phase that’s where you manually remove all the algae by scrubbing and rinsing it off the rock, all of it at once.
his tank had no invasion, he was doing this to be preventative, since deep cleans refresh any reef, and to test the method in general.
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he does the exact steps you’d do, but at the rock disassembly phase that’s where you manually remove all the algae by scrubbing and rinsing it off the rock, all of it at once.
his tank had no invasion, he was doing this to be preventative, since deep cleans refresh any reef, and to test the method in general.
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I’ve decided to perform a rip clean on my 120 with 100% new water. The tank has been running for 5 years and was battling Dino for several months. I used the bacteria method from elegant corals and worked great I haven’t seen Dino in months now. But I tried several other methods including...
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Macro algae are more or less marine "plants." They soak up some of the stuff in the water that fuels annoying, ugly micro algae like you're dealing with. With macro in the system, if you miss a water change or the skimmer breaks down, rather than ending up with a green hair infestation again, some of the extra nutrients in the water will fuel the growth of a nicer looking, easier to remove algae.
Manual removal like brandon suggests will make the biggest dent in the problem in the shortest amount of time. However, a good clean up crew will usually buy you some more room for error.
My personal experience battling GHA has been that after intense manual removal, herbivores tend to go for shorter clumps I cant easily pull, and they leave the bigger clumps alone. Over time, the big chunks get bigger and the small stuff totally disappears. I could reach into our smaller tank and pull all of the remaining GHA in about five minutes. I dont want to do that, though, because I'd rather look at a couple big, heavily overgrown chunks of hair, than look at an entire tank covered in fuzz.
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Here’s some better pictures of the algae
I would manually remove some...just throw on some gloves and remove as much as you can.
