Liverock help

[Brando457]

About a month ago I picked up a piece of coral from inquistive, it was on a large piece of liverock, but the rock was covered with extreme amounts of hair algae.

I chiseled off the section with the coral and was able to free it from the rock. I placed the rock outside of water in a bucket and covered it so no water or light could get to it.

I'd like to place it either in my display or in my sump, but would like advice on how to ensure the alga and anything else is dead. Preferabbly making it base rock.

Also I'm having a bit of hair algaE in my main display. Any advice dealing with that is appreciated. I have 75-100 turbos, 50 nassairus snails, and 2 hermits for clean up.

 

[ricwilli]

You need to cure the rock. Srcub it down, place it in a container with your salt water, pump and heater. Do water changes 1-2 times a week until all algae is gone. You can use the water that you get from doing water changes from your DT. Make sure it does not get any light.

 

[concept3]

I had a hair algae battle once, and it was pretty aggravating to deal with. The only solution that worked for me, unfortunately, was completely taking all the rocks out removing the corals and placing them in a holding tank, scrubbing the rocks completely with a wire brush, scraping all the algae off the back wall of the tank, making an almost 75% water change and putting them all back in. The process took all day!

I then re-introduced the cleanup crew and increased magnesium so that coralline algae could proliferate. After a month or so, everything settled back and you couldn't tell that the tank was dismantled and placed back together. What an ordeal that was though!

 

[Phyl]

Be careful because not all hair algae is created equal. Bryopsis is killer to get rid of. Make sure you're POSITIVE what kind of algae you are dealing with before you introduce it to your system.

I agree with Richie in cycling it in a separate system to get rid of the algae (no light, no nutrients, lots of scrubbing with a wire brush periodically as the algae that exists dies off).

 

[Hawkeye]

based on pics of inquisitives' breakdown - that was not bryopsis. However it was thick and ugly - so much so it probably discouraged a lot of people from getting some of the nice corals she had.

 

[The_Codfather]

I got some stuff from the same source and my HA is almost gone.. but after a cycle (if you choose to go that route} I strongly recommend keeping the rock in QT tank for some time for other reasons.. PM sent

 

[Brando457]

Sid I got your voicemail can't seem to reach you, but I think I'm going to go that route. I only added the coral from the rock so no worries there really.

 

[The_Codfather]

Sid I got your voicemail can't seem to reach you, but I think I'm going to go that route. I only added the coral from the rock so no worries there really.

To tell you the truth I would just nuke it.. not worth the risk