Bubba's SPS Journey

[CNDReef]

I know you have used peroxide before and have you tried it as a spot treatment? No flow and just put your daily max in a syringe to place it on the infected areas everyday. It’ll break down some of the enzymes that are bitter and the cuc will usually destroy it.

 

[bubbaque]

I know you have used peroxide before and have you tried it as a spot treatment? No flow and just put your daily max in a syringe to place it on the infected areas everyday. It’ll break down some of the enzymes that are bitter and the cuc will usually destroy it.

Yes someone gave me the advice to do it in a pm a couple days ago. I gave it a try with all flow off and let it sit for 15 mins. I seen the algae bubbling but two days later it still looks fine. I’m going to try again today.

 

[drawman]

Yes someone gave me the advice to do it in a pm a couple days ago. I gave it a try with all flow off and let it sit for 15 mins. I seen the algae bubbling but two days later it still looks fine. I’m going to try again today.

I think turf algae will take repeated applications. I take my rock out and dump it on and after a couple of weeks it sprouts back up.

 

[mfollen]

If any of the turf survives it will likely regrow. All of it has to be killed unfortunately.

 

[Nburg's Reef]

Go to ReefTopia and get you 30-50 of the pincushions. You need a full platoon and not just a unit of them. Any less and they just take their sweet little time just to mock you. You can give them away when they mow it down in a few months... or they can stick around and keep your coralline in check. The urchins are not effective if you let your N or P rise too much... does not have to be at NSW, but cannot be too high either. If the N and P gets too high, they just really seem to slow down - if it gets really high, they will die. IMO, snails are a joke for a job like this. Fun fact, but these can live to be more than 100 years old, I guess. Other than moving around frags, they are my favorite algae eaters, are cheap at hardy.

Sea Urchin, Pincushion - L. variegatus (4 Lot)

Pincushion urchins do very well within a Reef Aquarium and control a variety of algae. We do our best to select interesting colors when collecting these. Size varies from golf ball to slightly larger when collected for the marine aquarium.

reeftopia.com

Reeftopia is an under rated site. I have been using them every so often since I got in the game almost 15 years ago. Direct from diver site.

 

[bubbaque]

Alright I’m calling the magnificent foxface a fail. It eats my frozen and nori but won’t touch the algae I got it for. Now I’m stuck with the horse faced fish

 

[SneakyTortuga]

Alright I’m calling the magnificent foxface a fail. It eats my frozen and nori but won’t touch the algae I got it for. Now I’m stuck with the horse faced fish

Maybe give it a little more time?

 

[bubbaque]

Maybe give it a little more time?

That is all I can do now.

My algae turf scrubber is growing really well now so hopefully that takes care of it soon.

 

[SneakyTortuga]

I hear bleach is a good algicide. I think most stores are sold out at the moment.

 

[SeaDweller]

I’m sending a dumpster your way, bubba. You know what to do.

 

[coralbeauties]

Ive used fluconazole before with good results. wiped out all my gha and turf but took a good month. I saw no loss of my sps. I currently was getting some turf algae in my frag system and have added another dose of it about 2 weeks ago. All my corals are looking great. I haven't noticed any damage to the turf yet but I did a through cleaning the other day and it pulled off easily. My friend Brian who runs lazy's coral house also uses it with no bad effects. Anytime his frag racks start looking bad he adds it and it cleans up his system great. Everyone's system is different though, I have used a sulfur reactor for years and have never had an issue from it, even when the effluent smelled of sulfur so bad my wife complained. Good luck and Im sure you will beat it.
Jeff

 

[bubbaque]

I hope to be mostly free of algae soon. I took JDA’s advice and ordered an army of urchins. Wednesday I should have 28 more coming to make it a total of 40 urchins. Once it’s gone I’ll trade some in to the lfs. I also scraped my back glass free of coralline algae to motivate them to stay on the rocks.

The magnificent horseface is still a dud.

 

[Big E]

Those variegatus urchins are voracious eaters........you're going to be giving a lot of them away.
Two can keep a 48x24 tank clean. You do still need some snails and fish that will eat it because they get much closer to the algae coral interface.

Years ago there was a long thread on rabbit fish and Foxfaces and the Siganus doliatus was the best of all the pest algae eaters. They were the most reliable while others were hit and miss.

 

[drawman]

I hope to be mostly free of algae soon. I took JDA’s advice and ordered an army of urchins. Wednesday I should have 28 more coming to make it a total of 40 urchins. Once it’s gone I’ll trade some in to the lfs. I also scraped my back glass free of coralline algae to motivate them to stay on the rocks.

The magnificent horseface is still a dud.

What kind of urchins did you go with I'm curious?

 

[DivingTheWorld]

What kind of urchins did you go with I'm curious?

 

[bubbaque]

What kind of urchins did you go with I'm curious?

These are the ones I bought.

Sea Urchin, Pincushion - L. variegatus (4 Lot)

Pincushion urchins do very well within a Reef Aquarium and control a variety of algae. We do our best to select interesting colors when collecting these. Size varies from golf ball to slightly larger when collected for the marine aquarium.

reeftopia.com

 

[drawman]

These are the ones I bought.

Sea Urchin, Pincushion - L. variegatus (4 Lot)

Pincushion urchins do very well within a Reef Aquarium and control a variety of algae. We do our best to select interesting colors when collecting these. Size varies from golf ball to slightly larger when collected for the marine aquarium.

reeftopia.com

Thanks Bubba. If they start taking it down for you I will try my hand at one. I have the blue tuxedos and they go for it a little but the turf algae keeps the upper hand unless I knock it back with peroxide.

 

[Potatohead]

The magnificent horseface

 

[TX_Punisher]

These are the ones I bought.

Sea Urchin, Pincushion - L. variegatus (4 Lot)

Pincushion urchins do very well within a Reef Aquarium and control a variety of algae. We do our best to select interesting colors when collecting these. Size varies from golf ball to slightly larger when collected for the marine aquarium.

reeftopia.com

I think I may pick up a 4-pack myself.

 

[Da8]

Sorry to hear the news.... But I'm sure you are going to solve it very soon.

Have you thought on using dorabellas?