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[bobmakespancakes]

i know in freshwater tanks live plants help with algae growth would coral help with algae or no?

 

[brandon429]

There is a way coral helps with algae growth but it’s not the sole control mechanism: by exclusion.

anywhere a brain coral has overgrown its frag, spilled out onto the rock beside it and is now half dollar has excluded all growth except favia mass for the half dollar spot. If algae grows, it grows on the edges and exposed skeletal parts, not on soft brain coral tissue that is totally exclusive to algae. Some other organisms like cyano and dinos can smother as overgrowth, but where LPS flesh exists you won’t see green hair algae attached.


in every wrecked algae reef pic on the web: where is the algae not anchored



great question

 

[brandon429]

Here it is, in action

Reefmiser from nano reef.com:

he still used a different method to kill off the abutting algae

but it didn’t grow where a flesh mouth is, we can see. If that whole rock was lobo/acan flesh, the algae wouldn’t be there. Where the coral has recessed a little on right center, that provided anchor points from the septal ridges with receded flesh. Overgrowth back of flesh will prevent algae in that spot but he used peroxide to kill it out first, clearing way for the flesh to overtake.

after peroxide and regrowth:

same water params, it’s just the algae is killed

 

[bobmakespancakes]

ok thank you i am also thinking about an urchin to eat the algae would a tuxedo urchin be too big in a 13.5 gallon tank?

 

[brandon429]

There is no way any method can beat that one above for fixing a small nano, not one method in reefing. If you apply our peroxide method your tank goes from the first pic to the last pic above in three days. We aren’t adding peroxide to your water, it’s cleaning out your reef, then we spot add peroxide as it’s taken apart.

we reassemble a perfectly clean reef with all your current animals in it.

an urchin might work but I’d simply never use anything that doesn’t produce that pic succession above in 72 hours


wanna do a custom rip clean of your tank right here, live time, sight unseen


we will prove the theory that only access matters to all reef invasions, not the water params, the invader specifics or even a basic pic of the tank


the theory says a rip clean will fix it because 13 gallons is 100% accessible and we can clean your sand of the cloudy waste feeding the algae, kill algae off rocks totally in one pass, change out all the water and reset back up a brand new old tank. Like pic #2

if you want to restore your tank like new in three days starting from now, post your before shot let’s see this surgery job coming up. I will add it to a thread with three hundred other restores using the same steps.

 

[brandon429]

Here’s another pic that came from a post rip clean tank, we could effect this without much effort in 13 gallons. His tank was about 13 gallons or there about

lemme see your sandbed as a cross section pic like that above

in the sandbed and on the rocks, bound in algae, is a bunch of detritus waste we need to remove, it’s the cause of your issue, sight unseen. That and leaving algae in place vs just killing it...fix those two issues and your tank will shine like a diamond, we show. This pic above here is so clear I can’t even tell there’s water in the tank. We turn out clean nanos!


post pics of your tank and we will make a custom job right here


heres Seabass from nano-reef.com

before

while tank is drained, hand removing algae first, applying peroxide only to cleaned areas:

final pic with corals open:

it’s literal reef tank surgery.