New Rock...?
 

Hi All,
Just a Quick Question...

I bought some new rock (about 50lbs of tonga) from a local guy getting out of the hobby, and there is quite alot of "green flowy algea" on it..
Should I:
A: remove it now
B: leave it until the end of the cycle
OR
C: leave it because my future tang might want to eat it?
:neutral:

It's hair algae, scrub off as much as you can. :biggrin: In the end, you may be able to get a couple turbo snails to finish it off.

Great, thanks Emily :) I'm sure my hunny will be excited when I tell him what we are doing tonight...lol

just a update I did that to, when i had my 280 gal starting up i bought some rock from a guy around 60 lbs and put it straight in to the tank. Guess what happened i got a huge mess of hair algae thur out the tank along with bubble algae. it went all over the tank waht a mess...

mike

get a sea hair.. they guys freak out for hair algae, cleaned mine out in 24 hours, i have to feed him nori now.

really i didnt know that the Nori is working Willow..


mike

he munches on it, but defiantly like hair algae better.

I've also found that those extra large turbon snails (what's written on the tank) @ LFS d/t work really well on my hair algae problem. Bit of a bulldozer though.

Whats a "sea hair" Willow?

they are like snails without shells, very large and they eat a lot of hair algae.

http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=seahares