Scoly Help!

Jason boles · Mar 14, 2023

I have a platinum trigger sump with a filter roll, a ton of media in there and a aero aqua duo skimmer!

also a ton of clean up crew. I buy everything but hermit crabs. So snail city! Lots of stomatellas, brittle stars, asterina, couple fuzzy chiton, 2 peppermint shrimps for the aiptasia, and a small colony of sexy shrimp for the nems!

go to reef cleaners and get some of everything that isn’t a crab

All in all no algae. I’m a believer in not ****** with it and it will take care of itself. I had some algae in the biggining. I like to wait till it’s super thick and easy to remove, and now while I have some it isn’t enough to bother me. Copepods seem to love it!!!!

All of the above is what I attribute to my clean and well running not overgrown with algae in my tank method

also I believe the biggest key is jump starting the pods. I got a 5 bottle pack of pods when I started. Soooo many.

DHill6 · Mar 14, 2023

Jason boles said:
I have a platinum trigger sump with a filter roll, a ton of media in there and a aero aqua duo skimmer!

also a ton of clean up crew. I buy everything but hermit crabs. So snail city! Lots of stomatellas, brittle stars, asterina, couple fuzzy chiton, 2 peppermint shrimps for the aiptasia, and a small colony of sexy shrimp for the nems!

go to reef cleaners and get some of everything that isn’t a crab

All in all no algae. I’m a believer in not ****** with it and it will take care of itself. I had some algae in the biggining. I like to wait till it’s super thick and easy to remove, and now while I have some it isn’t enough to bother me. Copepods seem to love it!!!!

All of the above is what I attribute to my clean and well running not overgrown with algae in my tank method

also I believe the biggest key is jump starting the pods. I got a 5 bottle pack of pods when I started. Soooo many.

I have alot of pods also, Tisbe for the mandarins which are my only fish. Royal Exclusiv skimmer with c02 reactor, my only other export is pinky floss. Rock is Tonga branch, in dt and some in sump. Peppermint shrimp is a no, I had them picking on scolys. I have bumblebees, red banded trochius, a couple lightning dove snails. Urchin was also a no, picking on scolys. My tank is bare bottom, the gha is along the bottom silicone, I can’t get rid of it. I have an orange Luzon star, mini basket star and snails. I have KZ LPS and a couple others, how often do you dose and what size is your tank?

Jason boles · Mar 15, 2023

Lol. I would just leave it!!! When it gets thick get it out!!

or a lawnmower

I dose every day. I have a 180.

Is it a lot? Bothering anything?

I just leave mine and when I think it’s too much I get after it with a cheap electronic toothbrush. That may work for ya!

DHill6 · Mar 15, 2023

It’s on top of the corraline, it doesn’t come off easy. Electric toothbrush, that’s different. The mess goes onto your roller at I’m guessing.

Jason boles · Mar 15, 2023

Generally it all just groups up in the dead areas of the tank and I take it out there or as I remove it.

I also have an Ada scrapper tool used for freshwater algae. It will scrap anything of if you have small areas. Sometimes I will clean up around a frag or two with it and the brush.

thankfully for now I just have the turf looking algae that doesn’t bother me, well and bubble algae which I also like lol.

electric toothbrush can put in some real work. Scrub it like your teeth!! It will come off.

what’s it look like?? Got a pic

DHill6 · Mar 16, 2023

It follows the bottom silicone, under the gha is corraline. Tonga branch was easily cleaned with peroxide.

Jason boles · Mar 16, 2023

Looks perfect to me! I’d just let it grow and every now and again pinch it off when it gets pinchable.

DHill6 · Mar 16, 2023

It only comes off with tweezers, the looser stuff. Otherwise it’s stuck. Snails need to get busy…

Jason boles · Mar 16, 2023

Here is my tank. I consider this just normal, and I don’t mind it.

I think once corraline grows on the rocks it may subside a bit

DHill6 · Mar 16, 2023

Nice, what rock are you using? Also my thoughts, have to have algae somewhere. I even have ulva growing along the silicone, that picks off easily.

Jason boles · Mar 16, 2023

Ohhhhh. I do like the rock I use a lot. It does make the algae issue easier than when I used Marco rocks.

it’s caribsea life rocks

DHill6 · Mar 16, 2023

I hear you on Marco, I also tried that. Now it’s Tonga branch, the real branch not manmade. I actually sold some off then regretted that decision. Luckily I found some for sale last year, definitely jumped on that sale.