Tank birthday, 47+ years

[Freenow54]

I think we better start talking about fish soon or we are going to get banned.

 

[tripdad]

I wonder if fish get carpal tunnel. In they're pectoral fins maybe.....

 

[tbrown]

Only catps.

 

[Paul B]

All about fish

 

[Freenow54]

All about fish

Ok Ok . You will be Happy to know with your advice , and that of Atoll I have everything I need to make a 4 panel UG under gravel reverse filter except the pump. It will be in my new Tank coming soon.

 

[Paul B]

It's about time.

 

[Paul B]

For about a year I have been having this algae growing in my reef. It may be some sort of Bryopsis and I may have introduced it from the Long Island Sound. I have not collected water from there in a year or so because of the pollution that killed, or at least allowed all the life at the shore including amphipods to disappear, but I did collect amphipods this year when they came back.

I still won't use the water this year. I noticed this algae in a small patch last year and thought it looked kind of nice and it is macro and not GHA so I (stupidly) let it grow.



I am having a lot of issues with my wife's health now and she is many times in a lot of pain so we spend a lot of time at different doctors and therapists which leaves me little time to work on my tank.

About every two weeks I can pull out this much of the stuff. That is a quart bucket and the algae weighs a pound.



As I said, I don't have time for this and if I don't pull it out, it will cover my corals like my invasive sponge did 3 years ago.
I am going to try something that I am totally against and I feel it may crash my tank. I hope not now that the tank reached half a century old.

I set up a 10 gallon tub with 5 gallons of water in it and added a few large rocks covered in the algae along with a few large anemones. (that I don't like anyway)

I am using fluconazole in plastic tub as a test. As I said, I am totally against any kind of chemical and this algae doesn't hurt anything but it does cover corals so I either will have a tank full of seaweed what would be good for manatees, or I can keep corals.


If this test works, I will put the stuff in my reef.

 

[Freenow54]

For about a year I have been having this algae growing in my reef. It may be some sort of Bryopsis and I may have introduced it from the Long Island Sound. I have not collected water from there in a year or so because of the pollution that killed, or at least allowed all the life at the shore including amphipods to disappear, but I did collect amphipods this year when they came back.

I still won't use the water this year. I noticed this algae in a small patch last year and thought it looked kind of nice and it is macro and not GHA so I (stupidly) let it grow.



I am having a lot of issues with my wife's health now and she is many times in a lot of pain so we spend a lot of time at different doctors and therapists which leaves me little time to work on my tank.

About every two weeks I can pull out this much of the stuff. That is a quart bucket and the algae weighs a pound.



As I said, I don't have time for this and if I don't pull it out, it will cover my corals like my invasive sponge did 3 years ago.
I am going to try something that I am totally against and I feel it may crash my tank. I hope not now that the tank reached half a century old.

I set up a 10 gallon tub with 5 gallons of water in it and added a few large rocks covered in the algae along with a few large anemones. (that I don't like anyway)

I am using fluconazole in plastic tub as a test. As I said, I am totally against any kind of chemical and this algae doesn't hurt anything but it does cover corals so I either will have a tank full of seaweed what would be good for manatees, or I can keep corals.


If this test works, I will put the stuff in my reef.

Huge step cant you scrub it off like I have posted many times it took 6 months of that but I beat off an almost out of control infestation of hair algae has not returned in 30 years

 

[Rybren]

A rabbitfish would likely eat all of that algae. Of course, once the
algae is gone, the fish would likely starve to death.

 

[Paul B]

Huge step cant you scrub it off like I have posted many times it took 6 months of that but I beat off an almost out of control infestation of hair algae has not returned in 30 years

Nope.
As I said, I can get a pound of it out every two weeks, but thats only the very heavy stuff, the other stuff is stuck solid and doesn't come off not even with a wire brush.

And Nope for a rabbitfish. Tangs, snails, 2 urchins, sea hares, algae bleenies and crabs don't touch it. They just make funny faces when they go near the stuff.

Remember, I have been doing this stuff from long before last Tuesday so I have tried a few things.

 

[Freenow54]

It's about time.

 

[Freenow54]

Nope.

For about a year I have been having this algae growing in my reef. It may be some sort of Bryopsis and I may have introduced it from the Long Island Sound. I have not collected water from there in a year or so because of the pollution that killed, or at least allowed all the life at the shore including amphipods to disappear, but I did collect amphipods this year when they came back.

I still won't use the water this year. I noticed this algae in a small patch last year and thought it looked kind of nice and it is macro and not GHA so I (stupidly) let it grow.



I am having a lot of issues with my wife's health now and she is many times in a lot of pain so we spend a lot of time at different doctors and therapists which leaves me little time to work on my tank.

About every two weeks I can pull out this much of the stuff. That is a quart bucket and the algae weighs a pound.



As I said, I don't have time for this and if I don't pull it out, it will cover my corals like my invasive sponge did 3 years ago.
I am going to try something that I am totally against and I feel it may crash my tank. I hope not now that the tank reached half a century old.

I set up a 10 gallon tub with 5 gallons of water in it and added a few large rocks covered in the algae along with a few large anemones. (that I don't like anyway)

I am using fluconazole in plastic tub as a test. As I said, I am totally against any kind of chemical and this algae doesn't hurt anything but it does cover corals so I either will have a tank full of seaweed what would be good for manatees, or I can keep corals.

Humblefish turned me on to this so if my tank crashes, I will definitely blame him.

If this test works, I will put the stuff in my reef.

Sorry should have said something about what your wife is continually going through . I am in that situation as well but not nearly as bad . hope she can keep her spirits up

 

[mcarroll]

Tetra/Bayer AlgaeFix would be another alternative if you want another chem to test for any reason later.