I have a Fiji 39 gallon peninsula. Love the tank, all of my parameters have been decent (ive had it for about 10 months now). I have had torches successfully and got a lot of coralline algae growing which is super exciting. I
Unfortunately, I let a pest problem go too long. I had a lot of rock that got covered in bubble algae and aptasia. It got tocthe point the hermit crabs shells and my pumps were getting glogged with the stuff. I tried an emerald but no luck.
I made a reqlly tough choice to remove 50% of my rock. I was going to remove it and take the bubble out but it was so much algae that I physically couldn't. I decided to remove it permanently, and clean the other 50% best i could that had my torches on it and other corals I wanted to keep. I honestly am probably going to lose a lot of corals but I learned a lot and I have the mentality of ready to lose it all at any point.
I'll post some before and after pictures soon but I wanted to hear others stories of how they got around this issue and what preventive measures you take to remove bubble algae and aptasia.
Unfortunately, I let a pest problem go too long. I had a lot of rock that got covered in bubble algae and aptasia. It got tocthe point the hermit crabs shells and my pumps were getting glogged with the stuff. I tried an emerald but no luck.
I made a reqlly tough choice to remove 50% of my rock. I was going to remove it and take the bubble out but it was so much algae that I physically couldn't. I decided to remove it permanently, and clean the other 50% best i could that had my torches on it and other corals I wanted to keep. I honestly am probably going to lose a lot of corals but I learned a lot and I have the mentality of ready to lose it all at any point.
I'll post some before and after pictures soon but I wanted to hear others stories of how they got around this issue and what preventive measures you take to remove bubble algae and aptasia.