Philipgonzales3
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Too much coralline
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I have the same problem!! Too much of this dang coralline lol can’t even take pictures because everything is purple.... I’ve tried long spine urchins, although they do a good job of eating the coralline they also knock everything over and eat the silicone between the panels of glass.. we need a solution!
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It does seem that there is at least one rare but very aggressive strain of coraline algae out there that even has the ability to overgrow living healthy coral and has a quite scary growth rate
I have read a couple of posts about it after experiencing it on a frag of acid star zoa's it took just a couple of weeks to overgrow the frag and you could even see the shape of the closed zoa underneath it...binned it as soon as i realised what was happening i threw it out before it took over... one of the people i read about ended up restarting his tank because of it...i could see its daily advance smothering the zoa's as it went....my nano was young at that stage and was barely growing coraline at all
Poor Acid Stars
I have read a couple of posts about it after experiencing it on a frag of acid star zoa's it took just a couple of weeks to overgrow the frag and you could even see the shape of the closed zoa underneath it...binned it as soon as i realised what was happening i threw it out before it took over... one of the people i read about ended up restarting his tank because of it...i could see its daily advance smothering the zoa's as it went....my nano was young at that stage and was barely growing coraline at all
Poor Acid Stars
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Lawnmower Blenny says nom nom
Well dang it, the urchin I picked up yesterday didn’t even make it 24 hours. I’ve heard they are tough to acclimate but wow. 2 hour drip in a heated bucket. Are they a 50/50 hit/miss type invert? I never ever lost one so fast.
lolgranny
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Wow, i personally have good luck with them and don’t even do as much as you did when acclimating them. Did he look healthy when you picked him up? (No loss of spines)
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Lawnmower Blenny says nom nom
When I bought him he looked and moved fine. This morning he lost a lot of spines, not moving when I nudged him and a bunch of bristle worms were under him and on his remaining spines.
Justfebreezeit
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I've only had/have one and I only did a 30 min drip with no heater (74 degree house temp) and mine was good. Took him about a week to really start chewing through coralline and regular algae though.
Impressive. A couple urchins would help keep that managed.
You could always add some GSP to the substrate and let that take grow over the substrate lol
EDIT: When I added my urchin I only did a 45 drip acclimation. Kept the water temp the same as the tank and matched the salinity.
You could always add some GSP to the substrate and let that take grow over the substrate lol
EDIT: When I added my urchin I only did a 45 drip acclimation. Kept the water temp the same as the tank and matched the salinity.
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Looks good to meI feel your pain
I find them incredibly hardy, but I get them direct from the diver in the Florida Keys.
Rick.45cal
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I’m not complaining too much, it’s a good problem to have in my opinion.
Here is my fish only tank...just trying to out why my coraline looks differnt than the all purple stuff...the of 2nd biggest rock has been in the tank dor a few years, all of the others just picked it up after added...I acid washed all of the before adding, so everything was kinda of whitish...The coraline algae is just all through my system, my refugium sump has the algae all over the walls...It was all seeded from me buying a very small piece of 2-3" rock and just filing the coraline into the water until there was none left on the rock, after that the added calcium and magnesium went to work.
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Reefcowboy
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I have the same problem, coralline everywhere. I used to scrape the back of the tank, but noticed they restablish themselves very quick making me a slave scrapping the tank often...
I guess if coralline grows, corals are growing so I let it be
I guess if coralline grows, corals are growing so I let it be
Urbanknight
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I had a similar problem but not to the extent of the OP. Two pincushion urchins solved my problem in about three weeks. They have been in the DT for about 6 months and continue to thrive. One of them climbs onto the Innovative Marine algae feeder everyday and spends about 5 minutes there before he decides to fall off. I don't know if it's eating algae or cleaning unseen coraline off the feeder.
