While on a two week vacation out West our area was hit by a rare NE tornado. Fortunately all we lost was food and most inhabitants of an established 135 gal reef system. My heart goes out to all those who lost their homes and family members.........
My clean up question concerns green hair algae. In the past 15 years I have never had this problem which was probalby generated by the decaying organics. I lost all fish and inverts, all hard corels; montipora, acans, challice, acropora, seriatapora, elegance, some softs but mushrooms, leathers and euphyllia were spared. I initiated an agressive water change schedule of 30 gal every 4 days or so (160 gal total system volume). Alk is returning to normal, phospates and nitrates are coming down.
Is removal of the affected rock the best answer? Scrubbing removes most of it but I am concerned about it returning. I want to do this once. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. JK :worried:
My clean up question concerns green hair algae. In the past 15 years I have never had this problem which was probalby generated by the decaying organics. I lost all fish and inverts, all hard corels; montipora, acans, challice, acropora, seriatapora, elegance, some softs but mushrooms, leathers and euphyllia were spared. I initiated an agressive water change schedule of 30 gal every 4 days or so (160 gal total system volume). Alk is returning to normal, phospates and nitrates are coming down.
Is removal of the affected rock the best answer? Scrubbing removes most of it but I am concerned about it returning. I want to do this once. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. JK :worried:
