bad algae removal
bad algae removal
MJAnderson
Whatever I need to kill off in the bristle, bubble, matting algae's micro or other I use kalk paste.
I bought some frags at the March 07 swap and the clean frags that some folks swore up and down they had actually had bubble and green and red threaded algaes. Which tried to take hold in the tank. I made a kalk paste and used a cheap artist brush and painted the stuff on the bottoms of the frags. And then when it started to pop up here and there in the tank. I just shut the pumps down and used a plastic medical eye dropper and put a slurry of hotwater kalk (mix no more than a teaspoon to 1/2 t at a time) on the offending algae and within a day it would go white and in few days would disappear. (pumps were off with lights on for 3 to 4 hours to prevent current from blowing kalk on stuff I didn't want nuked and of course to let it sit long enough to impact the algae)
Now, worth mentioning is that, I dose calcium manually (no drip or Ca reactor on this setup) and can stop dosing a week prior and limit the amount of the kalk work to burn the patches. Otherwise I'd spike the pH and or calcium levels and nuke my milli and acro frags. Which, fortunately I have managed to avoid. So far.
Give it a test run. It's time consuming at first since you have to space out when and how much of it you put down. But it worked for me and I almost have it completely out of that tank and system.