CrayolaViolence
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And I don't mean the kind you want to eat.
I have a tank I use to cure rock in. After the rock was done curing (and removed except for a few pieces), the water was changed and my clean up crew went on living their life.
Then, much to my surprise, the water turned green. I realize this is an algae bloom, plankton, it's free floating (except if it gets stuck to the glass) and looks worse than it is because the aquarium is old and the glass is green too, but the water is definitely turned green.
Now, I'm an opportunist. I feed plankton to my other tank daily. I am growing plankton in bottles in my window. Does anyone know if this water would be safe to use in my coral aquarium where I have tons of hungry zooxanthellea that would love to slurp it up. Reading up, water changes are not advised since this only reduces the number of zooxanthellea in the aquarium and leads to greener water. I have a skimmer running a HOB, octopus, even have mangrove trees to help reduce the nitrates etc. This is not a coral tank, so water parameters don't have to be perfect but rather I use it to cure rock, grow copods, and house all my crabs and shrimp to help keep the place clean. And one mandarin lives there eating the copods. The tank is fed VERY little, so there isn't a lot of waste. I've cured A LOT of rock but I've never had this happen. Brown algae sure, all the time in a cure tank, but this one is new and in front of a window that was getting direct sunlight so I figured that contributed to the bloom, plus this one has a coral light on it to encourage growth of coralline algae on the rocks I'm curing and save what I can on the rocks by the way of coralline.
Anyhow, the opportunist that I am, would this water be safe to "feed" to my other tank as if it were a bottle of plankton?
Thanks in advance.
I have a tank I use to cure rock in. After the rock was done curing (and removed except for a few pieces), the water was changed and my clean up crew went on living their life.
Then, much to my surprise, the water turned green. I realize this is an algae bloom, plankton, it's free floating (except if it gets stuck to the glass) and looks worse than it is because the aquarium is old and the glass is green too, but the water is definitely turned green.
Now, I'm an opportunist. I feed plankton to my other tank daily. I am growing plankton in bottles in my window. Does anyone know if this water would be safe to use in my coral aquarium where I have tons of hungry zooxanthellea that would love to slurp it up. Reading up, water changes are not advised since this only reduces the number of zooxanthellea in the aquarium and leads to greener water. I have a skimmer running a HOB, octopus, even have mangrove trees to help reduce the nitrates etc. This is not a coral tank, so water parameters don't have to be perfect but rather I use it to cure rock, grow copods, and house all my crabs and shrimp to help keep the place clean. And one mandarin lives there eating the copods. The tank is fed VERY little, so there isn't a lot of waste. I've cured A LOT of rock but I've never had this happen. Brown algae sure, all the time in a cure tank, but this one is new and in front of a window that was getting direct sunlight so I figured that contributed to the bloom, plus this one has a coral light on it to encourage growth of coralline algae on the rocks I'm curing and save what I can on the rocks by the way of coralline.
Anyhow, the opportunist that I am, would this water be safe to "feed" to my other tank as if it were a bottle of plankton?
Thanks in advance.
