Green and White Plant taking over
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bang guy
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It's Neomeris sp. It's a calcarious macro algae. Since it's calcarious you can use this to your advantage to reduce it.
Test your Magnesium level. Then add a magnesium supplement to get it over 1300ppm. Don't do this blindly, you need to test it. That should stop the growth.
Meanwhile start ripping it out. It's slow growing so you should be able to make some progress that way.
I don't see any corals in your tank, please confirm.
Another approach is to lower its ability to create Calcium carbonate. Lowering he Carbonate will make for a very unhealthy tank so I do not suggest that approach. The opposite could work as a last resort. If you raise the Carbonate in your system it will tend to significantly lower the Calcium level. Only as a lst resort though and raise the Carbonate gradually.
A natural approach would be to add a Calcium carbonate competitor. I would suggest some type of leather coral or something that will consume Calcium and Carbonate faster than the Algae.
In most cases this will die out on its own. How long has the tank been set up?
Test your Magnesium level. Then add a magnesium supplement to get it over 1300ppm. Don't do this blindly, you need to test it. That should stop the growth.
Meanwhile start ripping it out. It's slow growing so you should be able to make some progress that way.
I don't see any corals in your tank, please confirm.
Another approach is to lower its ability to create Calcium carbonate. Lowering he Carbonate will make for a very unhealthy tank so I do not suggest that approach. The opposite could work as a last resort. If you raise the Carbonate in your system it will tend to significantly lower the Calcium level. Only as a lst resort though and raise the Carbonate gradually.
A natural approach would be to add a Calcium carbonate competitor. I would suggest some type of leather coral or something that will consume Calcium and Carbonate faster than the Algae.
In most cases this will die out on its own. How long has the tank been set up?
flower
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That macro sells for $10.00 a pint...at Golf Coast Ecosystems. You might be able to sell it.
Thanks bang guy for such a detailed explanation! And yes, there are some corals in there, but you just can't see them! Haha! I don't have any leathers, however, so that's a good idea. I'll start with the magnesium plan and go from there, since leathers are a bit expensive and I don't really want to mess anything up with a Calcium Carbonate experiment unless I have to.
This "new" tank has been set up for about two months, but some of the rocks came from an old tank that had the same problem. Seems like in that tank, they did die out, but then they were only replaced by a nasty slime algae. We just decided to start over in hopes that none of it would come back. We picked all the rocks clean, and both the Neomeris and the bubble algae came back with a vengeance.
We were hoping an emerald crab would help the bubble algae, but I guess he can't eat fast enough. Or maybe he just cant' get to the bubble algae because of the dense Neomeris forest!
And yes, trigger40, it does look very cool. Especially if it was the only thing in the tank. But you can't see the cool corals and mushrooms unless you dig out the tall florescent grass bed! Maybe I should set up a Neomeris tank and call it a day.
Flower, interesting that it's for sale! I'll have to look into that before I "weed" my aquatic garden. Thanks!!
This "new" tank has been set up for about two months, but some of the rocks came from an old tank that had the same problem. Seems like in that tank, they did die out, but then they were only replaced by a nasty slime algae. We just decided to start over in hopes that none of it would come back. We picked all the rocks clean, and both the Neomeris and the bubble algae came back with a vengeance.
We were hoping an emerald crab would help the bubble algae, but I guess he can't eat fast enough. Or maybe he just cant' get to the bubble algae because of the dense Neomeris forest! And yes, trigger40, it does look very cool. Especially if it was the only thing in the tank. But you can't see the cool corals and mushrooms unless you dig out the tall florescent grass bed! Maybe I should set up a Neomeris tank and call it a day.
Flower, interesting that it's for sale! I'll have to look into that before I "weed" my aquatic garden. Thanks!!