Brushing algae of frags?

[zheka757]

Being buying frags for many years until I made order with battle corals and with that order a brush came in to brush corals.
Made me thinking, do you guys brush frags often? I mean yesturday I brushed the base of one acro frag and found dead tissue of coral under grown algae. I guess algae prevents coral from incrusting of frag plug!

 

[Starbuxxx]

I need to. I try to wait for the clean up crew to earn their name or for the natural flow to knock things off but a brush would actually help.

 

[Doctorgori]

peroxide spot treatment…..always

 

[zheka757]

peroxide spot treatment…..always

Can you explain this method?

 

[Doctorgori]

Can you explain this method?

Absolutley! …
Usually I try to seperate the specimen from plug anyway, but if for whatever reason you can’t or don’t, then squirt some run-o-mill 3% Drug store peroxide around the base. Not 100% certain, but it should help with algae anyway …
Tolerance varies per species, and I wouldn’t totally douse the frag, but most stuff comes out OK

 

[zheka757]

want to bring this post back up. i like the idea of using peroxide, but I'm a little worried, i have like 10 different super slow, super pretty acro frags that base gets covered in algae.
using brush, you cant get everything clean, and leave few spots and algae grows back in less then a week.

 

[BaliReefBox]

cotton bud and peroxide, dont touch the frag

 

[zheka757]

cotton bud and peroxide, dont touch the frag

that sounds good way to do, ill definitely fry this way

 

[Roatan Reef]

Small light toothbrush works wonders, just Scrub base and around coral, not so hard that you dislodge coral pieces, coral will close and be mad, but will thank you next day.

 

[zheka757]

Small light toothbrush works wonders, just Scrub base and around coral, not so hard that you dislodge coral pieces, coral will close and be mad, but will thank you next day.

That's what I'm doing, but it's not really doing a good job.