Devilishturtles
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Hey guys, I'm having a huge, huge, huge bryopsis outbreak in my tank. Just goes to show you what can show up micrscopically on dryed out liverock. When I upgraded to my 45 gallon, I bought 30 more pounds of liverock from liveaquaria...I was pretty dissapointed that the rock was pretty much dry. A few MONTHS after I have it in my tank, I get an outbreak of, at first, slow growing macro, then it exploded. It's growing inbetwen my sps corals, on my equipment....everywhere.
I've been trying to combat it with wetter skimming, more frequent water changes, phosban and carbon. Going to order a canister and lots of purigen soon as I can afford it. But nothing stops this stuff. It's getting very, very annoying.
I've read about increasing Magnesium levels...is there any truth behind that?
Water parameters are pretty much excellent.
0 NH3
0 NO2
<5 NO3
8.3 pH
470 Ca
~ 14 dKh
0 PO4
So here is my question(s). Will taking it out and scrubbing the rock get rid of the macro? Will it kill the goodies on my liverock? I don't want to cause another cycle by scrubbing off too much stuff. I want to aquascape anyways, so it's a good excuse, but I'm worried. I want to kill the algae without killing my fish and corals. Just looking for some reassurance or ideas.
Thanks for the help.
I've been trying to combat it with wetter skimming, more frequent water changes, phosban and carbon. Going to order a canister and lots of purigen soon as I can afford it. But nothing stops this stuff. It's getting very, very annoying.
I've read about increasing Magnesium levels...is there any truth behind that?
Water parameters are pretty much excellent.
0 NH3
0 NO2
<5 NO3
8.3 pH
470 Ca
~ 14 dKh
0 PO4
So here is my question(s). Will taking it out and scrubbing the rock get rid of the macro? Will it kill the goodies on my liverock? I don't want to cause another cycle by scrubbing off too much stuff. I want to aquascape anyways, so it's a good excuse, but I'm worried. I want to kill the algae without killing my fish and corals. Just looking for some reassurance or ideas.
Thanks for the help.