Please I'd This

[Budman's Corals]

Is this just GHA or bryopsis. My phosphate are 0 and nitrates 1.5. Why would I still be getting this stuff on frags in frag tank. I don't have any in main system and there plumbed together. Seem like it grabs ahold of eggcrate and plugs in frag tank. It's a 60g tank with 2 mp40 so I'm getting great flow. Running 8 t5 4 blue plus 2 aquablue specials and 1 a tonic 1 purple. Any help would be awesome.

 

[o2manyfish]

Not Bryopsis, and doesn't look like hair algae. Algaes are an occurrence in a reef. Given the leafyness of the algae I would think a tang would probably clean that up pretty nicely.

Dave B

 

[brandon429]

Budman


wrote this thread below based on algae work Ive seen not because I'd like to be the enemy of the establishment ~



I see weaknesses in today's algae care regimen. The prime weakness is not having five threads at sixty pages to show for a given method



http://reef2reef.com/threads/if-pho...why-cant-i-generate-_____-by-adding-p.204380/

Your writing so far reflects upon the exact subject matter intended for this thread above. Most people know to affect po4 favorably and they'll prob be okay from persistent algae. When one person runs a cure on their tank, it only follows that it should work for others, most advice follows this course.

But thats the divergence. Your question and tank details indicates the existence of another form of algae adaptivity in the captive aquarium, one ignored, independent of phosphate, one we are safe from encountering by giving info on algae control where no predictions are on the line.

O2many called it as the ocean does, grazing is what keeps things in check not po4 obsession.

That kind of thick bodied calcareous algae in your tank Budman can resource nutrients from zero phosphate waters. It can and does exist in oligotrophic clean waters in nature and is controlled by grazing from fish and others and not by nutrient levels in the surrounding water, hence the entire point of my linked thread. Painful read, as usual powerful algae battle proof is within as well. Little gems here and there.


People employ a range of actions to get that algae stopped, tangs def can work and are what nature uses. Many go on a months long chase of starvation to try and kill it, gfo galore, clearly that has a following as stated in my linked thread by the number of people disagreeing with my every word


And some people make giant threads simply spot killing it with peroxide until that specific DNA is excluded from your tank and can't come back even if you raise the po4 to .12, consider all options.

B

 

[reefbeard]

Some kind of macro or calcareous algae. Had the same stuff growing on plugs from LA and my Scarlet Hermits took care of it pretty quick.

 

[twilliard]

Budman


wrote this thread below based on algae work Ive seen not because I'd like to be the enemy of the establishment ~



I see weaknesses in today's algae care regimen. The prime weakness is not having five threads at sixty pages to show for a given method



http://reef2reef.com/threads/if-pho...why-cant-i-generate-_____-by-adding-p.204380/

Your writing so far reflects upon the exact subject matter intended for this thread above. Most people know to affect po4 favorably and they'll prob be okay from persistent algae. When one person runs a cure on their tank, it only follows that it should work for others, most advice follows this course.

But thats the divergence. Your question and tank details indicates the existence of another form of algae adaptivity in the captive aquarium, one ignored, independent of phosphate, one we are safe from encountering by giving info on algae control where no predictions are on the line.

O2many called it as the ocean does, grazing is what keeps things in check not po4 obsession.

That kind of thick bodied calcareous algae in your tank Budman can resource nutrients from zero phosphate waters. It can and does exist in oligotrophic clean waters in nature and is controlled by grazing from fish and others and not by nutrient levels in the surrounding water, hence the entire point of my linked thread. Painful read, as usual powerful algae battle proof is within as well. Little gems here and there.


People employ a range of actions to get that algae stopped, tangs def can work and are what nature uses. Many go on a months long chase of starvation to try and kill it, gfo galore, clearly that has a following as stated in my linked thread by the number of people disagreeing with my every word


And some people make giant threads simply spot killing it with peroxide until that specific DNA is excluded from your tank and can't come back even if you raise the po4 to .12, consider all options.

B

Amen

 

[mochaclownlover]

Not trying to hack this thread, but has anyone else had their scarlet hermit crab eat their pepermint shrimp??

 

[Tyler Roth]

This was my dads 11 years ago and I wanna get one does anyone know what kinda coral this is?

 

[brandon429]

Trachyphyllia geoffroyi I didn't bother to spell check. Lol tyler at your hijack id I bet Budman doesn't mind and I wouldn't either. Sometimes when you gotta id, you gotta id, and thats how it goes down.

Mocha, yes Ive read that before and pouncing on weakend fish as well, opportunists they are.


Budman my quicker summary is we should test a single test area, not the whole tank, so we can chart its predicted dieoff pathway using nothing other than an outside tank addition of peroxide on the target. You'd be surprised how well it works and none has to touch a coral. Its not a frag or rock dip, its a creative put the peroxide only on the target let sit in air 2 mins rinse don't have remove any and post us follow up pics in 36 hours kind of small test.

In no way is peroxide the only or best way there are more than one

Its just a super appealing way thats all.

I for sure believe several animals will graze it, and selecting grazing is selecting what nature does.