To much coraline

[Eoka]

Should I scrape some of this coraline off it consumes alot of alk?

 

[WrasseyReefer]

Totally up to you. It does no harm to leave it. I think people scrape it if they don’t like the aesthetic of it. I personally like it, as it shows your tank is super stable and healthy. But scraping it also won’t harm anything. If you don’t like that it’s consuming so much alk, you could scrape it. It’ll most likely come back for rescraping though. Nice job establishing a stable and healthy tank!

 

[Lavey29]

Put some tuxedo urchins in there to keep it cropped back nice.

 

[WrasseyReefer]

Agreed, urchins will consume coralline.

 

[Eoka]

Put some tuxedo urchins in there to keep it cropped back nice.

I got two

 

[WrasseyReefer]

Get more. Haha.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Should I scrape some of this coraline off it consumes alot of alk?

Should scrape off easily with a plastic putty knife or edge of an old credit card. Tuxedo urchin as mentioned will also eat it but will take time to get to it all.

 

[Lavey29]

I got two

What size tank? I have 3 in my 65g DT

 

[Eoka]

Get more. Haha.

I don't wanna starve stuff lol I got 8 turbo snails, some trochus, 2 urchins, sea cucumber, and a sand sifting star

 

[Eoka]

What size tank? I have 3 in my 65g DT

125g

 

[Eoka]

Should scrape off easily with a plastic putty knife or edge of an old credit card. Tuxedo urchin as mentioned will also eat it but will take time to get to it all.

Okay I might get rid of some of it than thx

 

[WrasseyReefer]

I don't wanna starve stuff lol I got 8 turbo snails, some trochus, 2 urchins, sea cucumber, and a sand sifting star

I have 3 tuxedo sea urchins in a 90g. They won’t starve in your 125g, especially at the rate you’re growing coralline.

 

[Eoka]

I have 3 tuxedo sea urchins in a 90g. They won’t starve in your 125g, especially at the rate you’re growing coralline.

Well they like to eat all the other algae seems like they prefer it

 

[Lavey29]

125g

Well there you go. 5 or 6. Then

 

[besskurz]

You should scrape off as soon as possible as much you can and ship to my address lol

My tanks never had such good "invasion" of coralline.

Good job!

 

[WrasseyReefer]

You should scrape off as soon as possible as much you can and ship to my address lol

My tanks never had such good "invasion" or coralline.

Good job!

Hahaha, I’ll take some too!

 

[WrasseyReefer]

Hahaha, I’ll take some too!

What’re your parameters??

 

[Kasrift]

I don't wanna starve stuff lol I got 8 turbo snails, some trochus, 2 urchins, sea cucumber, and a sand sifting star

That's it? For that size tank that is a really small CUC. Phenomenal job getting corralline to be the main algae covering everything vs nuisance algae.

 

[Rmckoy]

I would scrape it off in sections if you choose to scrape anything

 

[WrasseyReefer]

Also, how old is your tank? How long did it take to get that kinda coralline growth?