Moving live rock with algae issues into new tank

[Luan B.]

Hello everyone,

I’m looking for a second opinion on this… I recently bought a 120gal to upgrade from my current Red Sea Nano, the problem is I’m currently fighting against algae of all sorts especially bubble and lettuce, the plan was to add the currently live rock into the bigger tank and add more dry rock for the rest of the aquascape but I’m wondering if should I start from scratch to avoid seed my new tank with nuisance algae or is something inevitable? My currently tank I’m dosing nopox but the new one will have a chaeto refugium and a uv sterilizer vecton 850titan, rollermat etc… I added a fox face and a tang and they eating some of the algae expect bubble algae (maybe because they are too juvenile approx 2” each and they will be living in a nano tank for the next 2 weeks didn’t want to get a bigger one).

So, should I just bite the bullet and add my current live rock or waste more money and time using new rock and trying not to get as much algae?

 

[shakacuz]

@brandon429

 

[brandon429]

the biome under the invasions that have been allowed to grow is preferable to any biome you'd establish after 1 year of dry rock being meticulous in care.

time for meticulous reef dentistry, on the rocks to be moved. not a dip, not a dose, a tooth extraction and cleaning run, literally reef dentistry. no bottle bac needed, even the harshest cleaning runs still hold cycle.

any smart builder will make an accessible scape, where growback is managed outside the tank, by occasional removal, vs messing with the water parameters like the masses do (which alternates invasions into other ones like dinos)

physical handling cannot cause dinos, it's the best way. don't poke skin and get sick, wear gloves if rocks are big.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/algae-identification.707457/
clean off the rocks that way

algae and diatoms and dinos and valonia and brush algae and cyano are all forms of reef plaque in my opinion. where animals fail to graze, we dentist and fully force compliance.