new LR

[ride928]

Now that my phosphates are down to an acceptable level (thanks to my new RO/DI), I've decided to rip out all of my crappy, overpriced, LFS LR and order 60 lbs or premium coraline rock from Dale at gulfview. I have hair algae on my rock now that is slowly going away. Once I rip this crap out, I shouldn't have to worry about it comming back on the new rock if I keep the nutrients out of the water, right? Also, my favorite multi-colored colony rock has been growing hair algae like crazy since I upgraded to MH. It's very hard to manually pull it off the rock since the zoo's are all over. Should I just frag off all the polyps and put them on the new rock?

 

[loosbrew]

don't waste perfectly good rock! cleanup the water, then add some janitors, mythrax crabs, snails etc...and wait...

algea isn't always bad, it is just a sign of a maturing tank that needs some more time to fix itself...with your help of course.

 

[ride928]

Thanks, but here is my plan. I was unhappy with my rock anyway, so what I plan on doing is putting the old rock into a tub with minimal lighting to get rid of the algae and then seed it with some fresh coraline. When it looks decent, I was going to use a few pieces in my tank and trade/give away the rest. I have/had every hair algae eater you can imagine from mithrax, various snails, hermits, LMB, chevron tang, lettuce nudi, etc.

 

[ride928]

Forgot to mention, the reason for all of the algae was a defective membrane in my old RO/DI. My new unit came in the other day and it's reading 0ppm.