MikeP
06-09-2008, 03:18 AM
Hi all, it's been far to long since I posted here. I've been very busy for the last several months. Anyways I have a friend whose wife has a salt water tank and she is taking it down. This friend of mine said I could have everything and all I had to do was pick it up. I went there tonight wanting to just take a look to see if I wanted to take the stuff but when I showed up she had everything in buckets ready to go. Now I have about 50 pounds of live rock covered on some type of hair algae (this is exactly why I told him I wanted to see the set up first, I would have told them I didn't have room if I'd of know it had all this algae). Anyway I managed to fit everything in the sump. I have never had any hair algae before so I don't know that much about it other than it can me a real PITA. I plan to buy something to eat it and then put the rock in the display tank when it's 'all cleaned up'. After I got everything in the sump I started thinking that maybe hair algae has spores and my display tank may start to get a hair algae outbreak anyway. So I need to know how it spreads (contact only or spores or what?). I've had a algae free tank from a very long time and I really want to keep it that way.
Any info would be great, thanks.
Any info would be great, thanks.