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jman9331
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is it bad?If it is bubble algae DON'T POP IT!! That will make it worse. The best way to remove it is to grab the base of the algae and slowly pull it out. It shouldn't be that hard to remove.
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It can be bad if you let it get out of hand.
The best thing to do is to remove it as soon as possible.
One of my friends had a problem with it and he let it get out of hand. Everything in his tank died (I don't know if the bubble algae was the cause). Now he is starting a predator tank
The best thing to do is to remove it as soon as possible.
One of my friends had a problem with it and he let it get out of hand. Everything in his tank died (I don't know if the bubble algae was the cause). Now he is starting a predator tank
Your tank is in the pre invasion stage
Pre invasion stage says nothing about how your tank will look in a week, or in a year. it says only that every tank ever posted on the web with a valonia invasion started from an easily fixed easily seen emergence, and they chose not to act, or to act in a way that distributes the regrowth potential around the tank.
The reason for posting this is that you can leave it in and indeed it might go away, or a grazer might eat it. But if you opted not to, and if you opted to remove it in a way that doesn't cast regenerative bits around the tank, you've opted out during the pre invasion stage of a classic valonia takeover. In some tanks that single spot never grows, and adds to the diversity of the tank (causes the offers of leave it in, no harm, my crabs eat it and keep it in check)
in some tanks that spot takes over the whole tank and you lose hundreds of dollars of life and years of effort.
the number one way to deal with valonia is outside the tank. lift that, and any other rocks with it, outside the tank and remove it how you will. rinse that area and the rocks out side the tank = keeping control of castings.
Pre invasion stage says nothing about how your tank will look in a week, or in a year. it says only that every tank ever posted on the web with a valonia invasion started from an easily fixed easily seen emergence, and they chose not to act, or to act in a way that distributes the regrowth potential around the tank.
The reason for posting this is that you can leave it in and indeed it might go away, or a grazer might eat it. But if you opted not to, and if you opted to remove it in a way that doesn't cast regenerative bits around the tank, you've opted out during the pre invasion stage of a classic valonia takeover. In some tanks that single spot never grows, and adds to the diversity of the tank (causes the offers of leave it in, no harm, my crabs eat it and keep it in check)
in some tanks that spot takes over the whole tank and you lose hundreds of dollars of life and years of effort.
the number one way to deal with valonia is outside the tank. lift that, and any other rocks with it, outside the tank and remove it how you will. rinse that area and the rocks out side the tank = keeping control of castings.
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This is going to sound strange, but it works for me... I actually zip tie a sharp pointed object to my siphon hose with 1/4 inch of the point protruding from the end of the hose (I use the metal pins used for lacing up a turkey). When I do a water change I poke the bubble while siphoning. The contents of the bubble get sucked into the siphon hose and out. Never have had it recur.
