ATS grow out

[karimwassef]

I can't be the only one with this problem - I have more and more life growing in my ATS. It's been two weeks since the last scrub and there's tons of little blue featherdusters on top of the Xenia, pods, worms, starfish, serpent stars and others.

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At this rate, I'm going to have to go to a full blown tank to keep it all. Does anyone else actually do that? I've been using my quarantine tank as a temporary holding tank until I figure out what to do...

Would someone starting up a tank actually consider taking this stuff to seed their rocks? I know it's mostly turf algae, but I just can't get myself to kill so much life. I also know that I can't put it in my DT because I'm growing SPS and can't afford to reintroduce nutrients I've just removed.

Am I alone with this dilemna?

 

[Windy2]

I guess so!

 

[wildman926]

If it grew on your ats, it is definitely in your system elsewhere. No need to worry about it.

 

[karimwassef]

I just don't like killing good life in my system.

I've started a massive grow out tank... 50 gallon... in my garage. No idea what I'm going to do with it.

 

[Rybren]

I shake the heck out the stuff in a pail of SW and then pick off most of whats still clinging to the algae. The water then gets dumped into the sump and the algae gets thrown in the trash.

 

[Gorgok]

Just think of the nutrients removed in removing such 'complex' life forms. My ATS only really removes snails as a by-product but even then its a good number of them each cleaning. Not gonna run out anytime soon at the rate they breed...

 

[karimwassef]

well.. fish and coral are nutrients too

There's a strip of Xenia that's growing on the ATS - but I can poke at it and it recedes in to the backside of the screen before I scrape.

Some "nutrients" I want to keep to occupy the biological chain - others I can accept as export.