Red turf algea

crad190 · Dec 12, 2007

i have some red turf algea on one of my red milipora frags.....
this stuff grows like crazy and i am tired of picking it off!!!

i've already talked to adam about this
but what should i do?

my mh's are on for 8hrs actics for 10
params are perfect
have a chevron tang but he doesn't seem to have any intrest in it
do weekly 5 gallon water changes, I'm upping them to 10 gallon changes

O if it matters it's a 65g

thanks

Som1else · Dec 12, 2007

I have had my LR completly overrun with this crap too. About 2 weeks ago i picked up 9 mexican turbo snails and they are beating the Red turf algae into submission. They literally scrape the rock bare leaving nothing behind. It'll probably take a few months but it looks like i may have finally gotten the upper hand on this situation.

crad190 · Dec 12, 2007

nice thanks a ton dude i'll get some asap and see what happens

EyeReef · Dec 12, 2007

ill let you know how those mexican turbo snails are doing on my red cotton ball algae problem
I ordered 10 of them

CHASDB · Dec 12, 2007

I have 3 turbo dozers in my 120, they have definately reduced the algae but dont leave the rock "clean". I don't know if I just need to add more but one is already the size of a racket ball. They are always moving rocks and frags, found my benett tort on my acan when I got home today

I'm thinking of pulling out my larger rock and spraying them clean with a pressure washer using rodi water.

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