Screebo's algae farm

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screebo

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It's slowly clearing up. I'm planning to p/u a couple scarlet hermits for next weekend. Do the Blue guys do as good a job on algae. Speaking of algae, even though my green, hairy algae looks hairy, I may have more than one type of "green" algae going on here. Notice the tubular dude growing out of the upper right hand corner. The pods seem to be cleaning up the brown algae nicely.

John :gcool
 

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take and pull out as much as you can then take a razor or other sharp object and scrape the areas where it grows hard, yes down to the rock. coralines have adapted to encrusting on "new" areas and will benifit from the scrapeing. Some just use a toothbrush but I find that in situations like yours scraping more closely mimics the natural action of urchins and parrots and once the coraline takes hold the rest will get shut down
 
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If you go to a store that sells gun cleaning items (I went to WalMart) you can find a set of 3 brushes that are quite useful for this kind of cleaning. The set comes with a stainless steel brush, a nylon brush and a brass brush. I mainly use the stainless and nylon brushes and save the brass for another project.
 
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screebo

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Tank tools from Smith and Wesson

Pretty funny. That's what I love about America. Look at the ideas that come up on adapting and resource utilization. I would have never thought of that. "Been a while since I've been in a gun shop". Just kidding, I'm sure most sporting goods would have them. I'll be doing just that. I'll put on my jeans, boots and a nice cowboy hat and pickin' up some gun cleanin' tools fer ma itty bitty reef tank. :clapping: Thanks much for the great idea.

The "Old Timer"

John
 
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Glad I could help. The brushes are a bit larger than a toothbrush and alot stiffer so they can give the algae a good scrubbin'.
 
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