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It's brand New, but the rocks are from my former 1.5 year old tankI'm curious, how old is your tank?
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It's brand New, but the rocks are from my former 1.5 year old tankI'm curious, how old is your tank?
The older tank had dino and red turf. That's why I nuked it. And while at it, I upgraded to a new nice 190 gallon tank and bench. I nuked the stones in soda and re-started 4 weeks ago. The darker brown spots are my worry. Could it be red turf algae again? Does it spread by spores (air)? Then those might be in the room infecting my new tank... By the way, if you happen to encounter dino. H202 3% 4 ml/gallon 3 times a day with min 4 h between doses combined with UVC took it out easy. Would be a dream to find a cure like thath for red turf...Got it - did the older tank have algae issue or is the algae unique to the new tank?
Did your lighting change between old/new tank?
I ask because the brownish slime on the rocks looks like the start of hair algae - in my experience that tends to happen often in newer tanks built with dead rocks that are leaching phosphates.
You would have a better idea about the red splotches though - hard to tell if its turf, cyano, coralline.
that doesn't look like red turf algae. looks like a new tank cycling to.Nuked my tank with caustic soda and did a re-start. Do sussspect the red turf terror is on its way back... If so, it spreads by spores. If it didn't manage to survive the soda bath?
that doesn't look like red turf algae. looks like a new tank cycling to me.
Yea - that is why I asked about the age of the tank.
Its hard to tell what the red splotches are but the brown stuff just looks like new tank, new rock.
In my experience, hair algae seemed to solve itself assuming you are using clean water and don't have some massively over stocked/over fed tank. Eventually the rocks quit leeching nutrients and things settle down. But that is a separate topic =)
Ha ha ha, youre right. It's a slow process hobby I also tried peroxide (3% and 9%) on turf covered rocks. Almost al died, but slowly came back. Do you have any tangs? I don't and I think I might have missed an important piece there in fighting red turf. I have a reef tank friend with 750 l and he has 5 or 6 tangs of different spicies. Found a well grown but eaten patch of red turf right under an anemone... Might it be that cuc can't handle full grown turf? They need to have it cut down in length to go at it? I hear you regarding Vibrant. Will try it now in the start.I used an entire bottle of vibrant in a fairly heavy dose - I nearly killed some of my LPS corals in the process.
It completely obliterated the bubble algae I had, I'd strongly recommend it for that. It also made it so I never had to clean my glass over the course of the month I used it.
It did nothing to the turf algae.
Here is a better shot at one of the rocks I nuked with peroxide this past weekend. You can see it is covered in snails -- all the algae is completely white and I don't think it is coming back. Time will tell. The first round of peroxide, everything turned pink but then recovered within a few weeks. On the bottom right of the picture you can see the skeleton of a coral that is covered in the mat of red turf -- as well as the snail shells =). That was all over the rock prior to peroxide.
Here is a before and after of a rock I did not treat.
Before:
After:
The top right of the picture is the same frag plug -- the turf has been receding a bit and generally thinning out. I attribute this to lower lighting and the work of my clean up crew. Coralline is coming back in its place. Its obviously a slower process - but its a slow process hobby. That original picture was originally taken 11 months ago. I'm not claiming that is 11 months of progress, more realistically that is the change in the past 3 months ish.
Lunella coronata crowned turban shell, coronate moon turban.What type of snails are those? Never seen them before.