I was thinking this time round I'd cure my own. Curious what the going thought was

I think next time I will boil all my rock befor it goes into a tank. no unwanted algae that way.

Steve

I DID THAT TO A COUPLE ROCKS TO GET RID OF GLASS (ops caps) anemones. I regrett it since the rock is now bleached white and it'll be months and month before it returns. In future I'm just treat the rock.

Steve, to be fair, I don't think you'd have that problem if you bought "new" rock. Buying from an existing setup increases the chance of problem algae because the rocks have been in nutrient rich water AND the owner may have added some pretty green leafy stuff at some point. I'm not sure I've heard of caulerpa problems on fresh rock.

Steve can't be serious. Maybe he's recalling this recent discussion:

http://www.canreef.com/phpBB2/viewto...445&highlight=

um ya I can, the algae problems I am having have tankin me to the point whare I am concidering how I can boil my rock but save the pods and worms.

for the record I didn't have algae problems untill I bought some new rock. the old rock I had was algaeless :mrgreen: but 1 month after I added some "new" rock I developed razor calurpa and then Grape.

I don't recomend you spend a lot of money on rock then boil it, I was kinda joking, but that is what I am faced with doing now. If my attemps at cleaning it when I move fail.

Steve

While we're on the topic of algae:

-Does anyone know anything that will eat Sargassum?

-I'm seriously considering removing all my caulerpa from my fuge and just using halimeda. Do you guys think this is a fairly intelligent idea, or is the nutrient export going to be minimal this way?

Why do you want something to eat sargassum? Why not just prune it? Seems to me I don't have sargassum anymore, apparently I have pruned it out of existence in my tank. :frown: If only I could prune the grape caulerpa out of existence. That stuff is insidious. I don't mind the sargassum actually. It reminds me of the "big sargassum" forests you see out on the west coast and down to California and all that. But the caulerpa .... if I had the space I'd get a foxface because supposedly they'll eat caulerpa indiscrimately. Eating caulerpa seems beneath my tang somehow. He won't touch the stuff. Sigh.

I have a fish that loves the stuff. I can't keep Sargassum in my tank for more than a week.

fox face doesent work :rolleyes: so far I have bought both a defective yellow tang and a defective fox face.

mind you I am not si sure that they will eat the already established stuff so much as maybe the brand new growth. I picked the heck out of my grape calurpa and I have not had any new stuff reapear in a month. as for the razor, it isn't comming back as fast but there was a lot of area's I couldn't pic while the rock was in the tank. So maybe they are keeping new growth at bay.

I will say that the two emerald crabs I put in 3 weeks ago did a hell of a job on the bubble algae.. no little ones left.. now I just have to remove all the big ones.

Steve