Algae Bubbles

[Willow]

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.

so in fact not only did you kill the valonia but all the bacteria, pods and pretty much everything that makes "live" rock live then. what exactly was the point of adding live rock in the first place if you going to kill it making soup out of it?