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10/24/2011, 06:27 AM
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Cooking Rock advice
Hello all
I have some bubble algae that came on a frag I bought a long time(almost a year) ago not knowing how annoying it can be and spread in your tank. And it has spread. Luckily for me I have only a few corals so I want to cook all my rock and hopefully start over. I have a 125 gallon barebottom with around 100lbs of live rock that has been running for oh lets say a year. I just removed the sandbed less than a month ago. If I remove all the live rock with no sandbed will my fish survive? I guess what I'm asking is there enough bacteria on the glass and on the bottom in the skimmer etc to maintain the life listed below 1 hippo 1 sailfin 1 clown 4 chromis 1 6 line wrasse Thanks for your thoughts. |
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10/24/2011, 06:31 AM
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Removing all the live rock will remove your biological filtration.
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10/24/2011, 06:34 AM
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@sugarmag I looked up the crab you suggested and know for a fact I can get a hold of emerald crabs will that work? don't think my LFS carries the crab I saw when I first did the search. I'm guessing they are the same thing.
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10/24/2011, 06:45 AM
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I've always had success with mithrax crabs (emerald crabs) eating valonia.
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10/24/2011, 06:48 AM
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option 2: buy about 20lbs of live rock fresh from the bin at lsf remove everything from my tank and throw the new rock in there - hoping no bubbles algae babbies are floating around at the time of xfer
ty sugar magnolia - I'm guessing using the crabs would be more wise since theres nothing stopping me from getting bubble algae in the future - wasting all the time spent cooking my current rock |
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10/24/2011, 06:49 AM
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^^^What Sugar said^^^
One emerald crab will take care of the problem in short order. At least that has been my experience. Your mileage may vary.
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10/24/2011, 06:49 AM
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It may be worth mentioning, that cooking rock will not necessarily solve your bubble aglae problem either. I had plague proportions of the stuff, and I removed 90%+ of my rock and cooked it for about 6 months. I still found a bubble here and there. no new ones, but the existing ones held on.
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10/24/2011, 06:51 AM
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My success with mithrax crabs has been mixed. I read a thread somewhere that Live Aquaria guarantees that their crabs will eat bubble algae. My mithrax from a LFS didn't do much if anything at all. Also, the large bubbles probably need to be removed by hand.
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10/24/2011, 06:54 AM
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thanks so much everyone think you saved me a large headache - I am so OCD about them - I need to let it go...well let a few crabs go
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