AlgaeFix Marine to control Hair Algae
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saltman1
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Has anyone tried to mix your dose with RO water or tank water and apply it with a turkey baster to the affected areas ? I just started treatment yesterday and will keep all updated with progress. I just thought of that today and figured it might attack the affected areas better if it was concentrated right where the algae is....any thoughts.
HighlandReefer
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I tried this on a siphoning algae in my tank which AF does not effect and it did not help for this situation.
HighlandReefer
Team RC
Algae Fix did not work for the algae I had. I believe it was Derbesia which is a siphoning algae (siphonous algae). The siphoning algae are able to heal their damaged membranes (holes in them) quickly which is the way AF works simply put. Bryopsis is another siphoning algae and AF won't work on it according to other posts.
Phosguard is ok to use along with GAC. I would recommend this with algae problems and to help clean-up the dead and dieing algae parts.
Phosguard is ok to use along with GAC. I would recommend this with algae problems and to help clean-up the dead and dieing algae parts.
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HighlandReefer
Team RC
More details for those interested in the siphoning algae:
PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES OF THE BRYOPSIDALES (ULVOPHYCEAE,
CHLOROPHYTA) BASED ON RUBISCO LARGE SUBUNIT GENE SEQUENCES1
www.ohio.edu/people/lam/Documents/Lam_Zechman.pdf
From it in part:
"The order Bryopsidales (also referred to as the
Caulerpales, Codiales, and Siphonales) is comprised
of green, mostly macroscopic, siphonous algae with
multicellularity arising only in some taxa during sexual
reproduction (Silva 1982). The Bryopsidales exhibit a
cosmopolitan distribution; however, some groups are
restricted to tropical marine environments. One genus,
Dichotomosiphon, is found in freshwater habitats.
Similarly, the Bryopsidales exhibit extremely broad
morphological diversity (from the simple uniaxial siphonous
construction found in Bryopsis, Derbesia, and
Caulerpa to the complex interwoven multiaxial siphon
patterns found in Codium, Halimeda, and Penicillus).
Some genera are heavily calcified as in the genus Udotea,
while the family Caulerpaceae and the majority of
the suborder Bryopsidineae exhibit no calcification.
Some bryopsidalean taxa are invasive and ecologically
problematic and are known to flourish in temperate
marine waters (e.g. Caulerpa taxifolia and Codium fragile
subsp. tomentosoides; Bouk and Morgan 1957, Trowbridge
1995, Jousson et al. 1998)."
PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES OF THE BRYOPSIDALES (ULVOPHYCEAE,
CHLOROPHYTA) BASED ON RUBISCO LARGE SUBUNIT GENE SEQUENCES1
www.ohio.edu/people/lam/Documents/Lam_Zechman.pdf
From it in part:
"The order Bryopsidales (also referred to as the
Caulerpales, Codiales, and Siphonales) is comprised
of green, mostly macroscopic, siphonous algae with
multicellularity arising only in some taxa during sexual
reproduction (Silva 1982). The Bryopsidales exhibit a
cosmopolitan distribution; however, some groups are
restricted to tropical marine environments. One genus,
Dichotomosiphon, is found in freshwater habitats.
Similarly, the Bryopsidales exhibit extremely broad
morphological diversity (from the simple uniaxial siphonous
construction found in Bryopsis, Derbesia, and
Caulerpa to the complex interwoven multiaxial siphon
patterns found in Codium, Halimeda, and Penicillus).
Some genera are heavily calcified as in the genus Udotea,
while the family Caulerpaceae and the majority of
the suborder Bryopsidineae exhibit no calcification.
Some bryopsidalean taxa are invasive and ecologically
problematic and are known to flourish in temperate
marine waters (e.g. Caulerpa taxifolia and Codium fragile
subsp. tomentosoides; Bouk and Morgan 1957, Trowbridge
1995, Jousson et al. 1998)."
ganjero
saiperchémibatteilcorazon
Unfortunately yes, but the red gracilaria and dragon breath's macro algae are still alive in my refugium. You could put the chaeto in a different tank, bucket or any container with a heater and an air pump and once you are done killing the HA put it back in your refugium.
HighlandReefer
Team RC
Yes you need to upload it to the website or to another photo service sight. Then use the url from the site.
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