I have a massive explosion of algae.
I've dimmed my lights, lowered nutrients, stepped up the water changes and reduced feeding to ever second day for fish and once a week for coral.
ive also bought a more effective skimmer and i pluck as much of the algae as i can twice a week.
it appears to be some sort of turf algae but my blenny turns his nose up at it and so does my molly. my CUC also have 0 interest in this algae.
I can not buy fluconazole in Australia without a prescription so I plan on trying to convince my GP to prescribe it for me to add to my tank.
but I also plan on spraying down the scape with Hydrogen Peroxide. the only thing preventing me doing this is I am worried it will also kill my coralline algae and crash my tank by killing the bacteria on the rocks.
I'm also concerned that if I kill off the coralline I will end up with this algae taking over completely as it doesn't seem to grow on the coralline but the coralline doesn't seem to be spreading anymore with I think is due to this algae taking up available realestate.
I can handle losing a few corals with this approach as the algae has already irritated a few to the point they have died off.
but yeah if anyone has any experience with this approach I'd love to hear about it.
Kindest regards to all,
Ben.
I've dimmed my lights, lowered nutrients, stepped up the water changes and reduced feeding to ever second day for fish and once a week for coral.
ive also bought a more effective skimmer and i pluck as much of the algae as i can twice a week.
it appears to be some sort of turf algae but my blenny turns his nose up at it and so does my molly. my CUC also have 0 interest in this algae.
I can not buy fluconazole in Australia without a prescription so I plan on trying to convince my GP to prescribe it for me to add to my tank.
but I also plan on spraying down the scape with Hydrogen Peroxide. the only thing preventing me doing this is I am worried it will also kill my coralline algae and crash my tank by killing the bacteria on the rocks.
I'm also concerned that if I kill off the coralline I will end up with this algae taking over completely as it doesn't seem to grow on the coralline but the coralline doesn't seem to be spreading anymore with I think is due to this algae taking up available realestate.
I can handle losing a few corals with this approach as the algae has already irritated a few to the point they have died off.
but yeah if anyone has any experience with this approach I'd love to hear about it.
Kindest regards to all,
Ben.