Jah2707
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Not exactly new to the hobby but new to this problem.
Let me set it up first: A local reefer who buys and grows out corals to sell. Has about 400 gallons total and some nice even high end corals. I am just getting back into the addiction so went to his house to buy some easy corals - Duncans, candycane, mushrooms, and cap. His main display is full of color and fish and really nice besides the fact that there is quite a bit of what appears to be green hair algae.
The frags were in a different tank but all all connected to the main. They looked great and I of course bought more then I originally went to buy. Fast forward to 3 weeks and now one of the frags. Big I mean giant duncan coral has quite a bit of hair algae growing out of the base of the frag. The coral itself is happy and big and one of my favorite corals no doubt. SO big it resembles an anenome.
The question is what do I do? i don't want this crap spreading through out my tank. So far I have used a toothbrush on it during the last water change but that didn't slow it down at all. It scrubbed off but came back worse. Again no where else do I have any algea besides on the front glass and a tiny bit of what looks like cyno under a power head on the sand.
SHould I just keep swapping the GFO every two weeks and scrub it weekly with the water change? Is there anything else to do to that frag itself? Should I discontinue buying corals from him? I already had him frag me 4 other corals from the mother corals that I am / was going to pick up this week. (purple duncan, red lobo, clear/pink with green tip frog)
Here is a picture of the frag itself. This is before the algae starting showing up.
Let me set it up first: A local reefer who buys and grows out corals to sell. Has about 400 gallons total and some nice even high end corals. I am just getting back into the addiction so went to his house to buy some easy corals - Duncans, candycane, mushrooms, and cap. His main display is full of color and fish and really nice besides the fact that there is quite a bit of what appears to be green hair algae.
The frags were in a different tank but all all connected to the main. They looked great and I of course bought more then I originally went to buy. Fast forward to 3 weeks and now one of the frags. Big I mean giant duncan coral has quite a bit of hair algae growing out of the base of the frag. The coral itself is happy and big and one of my favorite corals no doubt. SO big it resembles an anenome.
The question is what do I do? i don't want this crap spreading through out my tank. So far I have used a toothbrush on it during the last water change but that didn't slow it down at all. It scrubbed off but came back worse. Again no where else do I have any algea besides on the front glass and a tiny bit of what looks like cyno under a power head on the sand.
SHould I just keep swapping the GFO every two weeks and scrub it weekly with the water change? Is there anything else to do to that frag itself? Should I discontinue buying corals from him? I already had him frag me 4 other corals from the mother corals that I am / was going to pick up this week. (purple duncan, red lobo, clear/pink with green tip frog)
Here is a picture of the frag itself. This is before the algae starting showing up.
