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It's Dr. Goodluck Himself
For about 14 months I have battled a losing battle with an accelerating microalgae (sent samples out weeks ago, awaiting positive id). The acceleration has accelerated.
All water parameters have been spotless. Tried all methods. Latest was Algaefix which seemed to be working but turned into epic fail as the algae seems to be thriving on high doses of the stuff.
I am headed to the drastic remove-all-rock/coral and scrub tank method.
Question: when I do it I will have not too much time/space. I need some way to rapidly kill the algae off the rock so I can return (some) of the rock to the tank. I would like to do all the killing, rinse and return in same day.
Muriatic acid? Hydrogen Peroxide? I have some very large rocks (50+lbs) so need guidance here.
I likely would shut off valves, remove rock from sump and scrub sump walls, siphoning.
Then do same to fuge, removing top layer of sand. Scrubbing overflow box.
Then display, doing same. Probably move fish from display down to fuge after fuge is done while doing display.
I would scrub walls and overflow box. No way really to scrub pipes going to basement.
I mention the steps because I DO NOT want the algae just to return at the end!
So: what to use to kill the algae?
Am I leaving out key steps?
Thanks!
Dr. Goodluck Humself.
All water parameters have been spotless. Tried all methods. Latest was Algaefix which seemed to be working but turned into epic fail as the algae seems to be thriving on high doses of the stuff.
I am headed to the drastic remove-all-rock/coral and scrub tank method.
Question: when I do it I will have not too much time/space. I need some way to rapidly kill the algae off the rock so I can return (some) of the rock to the tank. I would like to do all the killing, rinse and return in same day.
Muriatic acid? Hydrogen Peroxide? I have some very large rocks (50+lbs) so need guidance here.
I likely would shut off valves, remove rock from sump and scrub sump walls, siphoning.
Then do same to fuge, removing top layer of sand. Scrubbing overflow box.
Then display, doing same. Probably move fish from display down to fuge after fuge is done while doing display.
I would scrub walls and overflow box. No way really to scrub pipes going to basement.
I mention the steps because I DO NOT want the algae just to return at the end!
So: what to use to kill the algae?
Am I leaving out key steps?
Thanks!
Dr. Goodluck Humself.
