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Originally Posted by Beverly
No wive's tale in my case, even though I am a wife  I did exactly what deep6er ended up doing - scraping all the empty shell off the rock, followed by several rinses. Over several months and several attempts to get rid of the valonia, with the stuff spreading more and more each time I disturbed it, I ended up boiling the whole lot of rock to get rid of this invasive pest. Luckily, the tank affected was only a 42g. |
ya it does apear to work like that but from what I have read (disclamer
) and from my own expereance, I have found it is almost like a cycle depending on the nutreants. it starts apearing slowly then more and more so you start popping them to get rid of them and holy **** you have millions, but I have done it a different way as you describred by removing the rocks and completly removing them and the same spreadig rate happend as when I just removed them and didn't care about breaking them. I think once they go sexual they release babies that have a planktonic stage untill they settel down and start growing so it can seem like breaking them is causing the spread but if you look around you will find a white shell of one that went sexual on you.
Steve
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