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Originally Posted by Myka
Why is everyone so afraid of hitchhikers? I've had my fair share of hitchhikers, and they were definitely a pain in the rear. By no means were those hitchhikers the worst thing that ever happened to my tanks, nor the biggest pain in the rear either!  |
I am talking about algae and seaweed type hitchickers for types I don't want in my tank. bugs, mantis, ect are fine, but a good culerpa (sp) or halmidia break out is not an easy thing to get rid of. it took me 4 months of pulling picking ect to rid my tank of an infestation of grape culrupa (sp) that almost smothered my tank. somthing I would never want to go through again. short of that I would not use used or fresh liver rock with out at the very least cooking it for about 4 to 6 months to make sure the kind of stuff I don't want is gone. if you have the time and the facilities for this cooking is about the best method, then you can just sead it with scrapings of coraline algae from some one elses tank.
Steve
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10-03-2011, 09:12 PM
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