03-16-2008, 11:07 PM
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Now What?
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: charleston, sc
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Cook it or keep it?
This is the last piece of LR that is overrun. Should save the blasto and throw the rock in w/the rest of cooking rock or... try to remove the algaes and save the gsp and zoas(they're kinda taking over the blasto) too?
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03-16-2008, 11:11 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: south of Dimples
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GSPs arent worth saving... and they'll probably survive the cooking tub anyway. I say pull the rock.
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03-16-2008, 11:13 PM
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Candy Pirate
Join Date: Mar 2006
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a blenny or tang should take care of that
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03-16-2008, 11:35 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: California
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I agree with know it all, and yah like crvz said it it also probablly will survive the cooking tub. If it were me i would save it lol, but thats just me, my tanks arent as abundant with corals. (still in the making  )
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03-17-2008, 12:06 AM
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SHARK
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: DFW, Texas
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either way you win if you save it and get a new fish you get a new fish a no algae if you cook it you get rid of the algae
its a win win situation
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03-17-2008, 12:19 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Get a tang to eat the hair and keep it. If not, ship it to me. I am a new found zooanthid lover 
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03-17-2008, 05:11 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
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Originally Posted by OneDummHikk
Get a tang to eat the hair and keep it. If not, ship it to me. I am a new found zooanthid lover |
A tang if the tank is big enough!if not a lawnmower maybe.
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03-17-2008, 07:40 AM
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Now What?
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: charleston, sc
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I have a tang...He can't keep up w/it. Plus the bubble algae.
Not sure how to get the blasto off the rock...dremel?
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03-17-2008, 09:15 AM
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They call me EC
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: central Florida
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Take the rock out, clean it the best you can, and put it back in the tank. decrease phosphate imports and increase exports. You may have to clean the rock occasionally until the excess phosphate is gone, but it can be done in the tank. There is no way I would cook that rock.
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03-17-2008, 09:24 AM
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Livin vicariously thru U!
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I also have to vote keep it! With a little TLC you should be able to beat the HA.
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03-17-2008, 10:15 AM
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Mommy Mod
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: down the street and around the corner from Dimples
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id still take the blastos off the rock even if you keep it. A dremel tool or chisel ( screwdriver) and hammer will break the rock where it is located. |
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03-17-2008, 12:26 PM
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Is that bryopsis?? Looks like it. If so cooking wont get rid of it unless you take your mag levels super high in the cooking tub while you do it.
Is that the same algae that is on the rest of your rock you are cooking??
If so...........I will recommend doing one of two things.
1. Kill the rock. Reseed it, then cook it.
2. Toss the fricken rock or sell it dirt cheap to someone but you have to let on its got bryopsis as bryopsis is NOT your regular hair algae and in most cases can be pretty tough to beat even if you do everything right. Get some marco rock to start over.
Bryopsis can be beat but ti takes a super clean tank and possibly the high mag levels to do it. For most people iut is best to just kill the rock along with the bryopsis and reseed the rock.
I will also add to everyone adding new corals to their tank. If your new corals or frags have a thick feathery looking hair algae on them.......do yoruself a favor and dont put that stuff in your tank
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03-17-2008, 12:40 PM
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Shark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Kentucky
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buy a tang!
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03-17-2008, 05:52 PM
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Now What?
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: charleston, sc
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fly Guy
Is that bryopsis??
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There a few patches on that rock. Can't really get a good pic my camera is lent out, had to take these one w/the video camera.
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take your mag levels super high in the cooking tub
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How would I do that?
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Is that the same algae that is on the rest of your rock you are cooking??
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No,There may be a few spots but, the majority was the super green non-feathery stuff.
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Get some marco rock to start over.
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Checked the site... Is that just good quality reef bones?
I'll add that in addition to cooking about 60# of LR I also have some lace rock that is being seeded by the other rock.
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03-17-2008, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by bosscrab
There a few patches on that rock. Can't really get a good pic my camera is lent out, had to take these one w/the video camera.
How would I do that?
No,There may be a few spots but, the majority was the super green non-feathery stuff.
Checked the site... Is that just good quality reef bones?
I'll add that in addition to cooking about 60# of LR I also have some lace rock that is being seeded by the other rock.
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you can do a little reading here
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...9&goto=newpost
YMMV. I have seen beneficial results first hand in one of my tanks using elevated mag levels to kill this stuff or I wouldnt recommend it. However, the stuff can be satan, and just getting rid of it is no guarantee that it wont return. The problem with bryopsis that seperates it from all the other nuisance algae is that it can thrive in some tanks with low nutrients so all of the usual husbandry things we do to keep outr tanks clean dont always work. Which is why i say just get rid of the rock and start over, since you are going to be doing some cooking anyway.
no its nto reef bones. all the reef bones I hae seen I havent liked......its dried fiji rock. SWEET shaped dry premium fiji.
here is a typical example of what marco rock looks like in this thread
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...2&goto=newpost
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