What is going on here!?!?

[Adam⚡️Flash]

First of all I'm not 100% on what this stuff is...I'm guessing either dino's or calothrix. Hefty weekly water changes and cutting back on the feedings is not winning the battle. I need advice please...

 

[brandon429]

I say let's not attack the water and make it all go away by Thursday by directed assaults. Most decline, and continue water actions until August heh

Id never toss out an arbitrary timeframe, literally by Thursday.

 

[Adam⚡️Flash]

@brandon429 so your thinking patience and it will disapate on its own?

 

[kateater]

First of all I'm not 100% on what this stuff is...I'm guessing either dino's or calothrix. Hefty weekly water changes and cutting back on the feedings is not winning the battle. I need advice please...

Looks like the start Dino's. If it's gets stringy in a day or so I would take action. Read a good post on it the other day.

 

[Adam⚡️Flash]

Also those airbubbles are sitting atop a green base of algae not brown

 

[brandon429]

I've found one can't state their way is best, including my way which is complete obliteration of the smallest invader solely from fixing tanks who delayed

One can only state options for reliable procedure and you choose among them. If you want to make it go away never truly knowing its ID, you can. Every other way is opposite of that way and they won't make Thursday


see algae, leave algae in place, do nothing decisive caused every tank submitted here:

http://reef2reef.com/threads/reef2reef-pest-algae-challenge-thread-hydrogen-peroxide.187042/

and every tank submitted in the linked threads from reefcentral and nano-reef in that read. Is a lot of hesitation we respond to

Algae loves, loves hesitation. You were prompted to respond to it, good conscience.

Every tank there saw algae then purposefully grew it then regretted having done that and had to raid the medicine cabinet to get back in line.

 

[brandon429]

the ideal action is

Remove all of that all at once and rinse it off outside the tank using peroxide as the final rinse, after you already saltwater rinsed and scrubbed the whole growth off with light brushing motions with a soft brush that still is able to force it off

The peroxide is the post action not the primary action

Set clean rocks back in tank. Clean out any cruddy sandbed at play here if applicable, your growths like a hands off sandbed as slow feed


It's not that another action you take to the water won't work, 66% get totally lucky.

 

[brandon429]

Wanna see someone's thread that'll change your reefing permanently (make you appreciate your invader vs theirs)

http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/3733...d-techm-signs-of-distress/page-5#entry5348343
Start page 1
If six pages changes your reefing permanently, that's an easy six pages. If that doesn't make you want to opt out of all tankwide invasions when they are day 1 tiny spot, nothing will

Someone who has not had the enjoyment of a delayed bryopsis challenge read there for when you do

Someone who has an invader that is not holdfast based, nor covering the majority of tank surfaces, rejoice then take action you caught a break on the chat roulette that is non quarantine

So after those six pages, with rasp test pics, when someone sees bryopsis or any wiry green algae pop up on a frag or rock, the next step is:

chorus yells
Dose the water!!


Adam you likely have a small potatoes issue this invader isn't usually rooted so in the very least a test rock tells you all about it, no guessing, no subjecting the main tank to randoms.

 

[Adam⚡️Flash]

What a plethora of knowledge... Than you very much. I'm glad my tank is not plagued and I'm dealing with a manageable situation.

 

[brandon429]

Thanks for considering just a bunch of opinions ~ agreed that's overkill above in some situations at least you can choose now with options and after pics.

You can take water actions/normal person actions right up until you need to escalate and hit a rest button without cycling your tank.

with each passing year we grow less willing to see a tiny spot kill as not worth full celebration. they say nothing good happens in reefing but that for sure does not apply to algae control. All challenge tanks shown wish they could go back in time and proceed differently