mseepman's 16" starfire nano

[kien]

for my new 104.72G tank I have a rubbermaid tub full of live rock that I got from a canreef that I'll be using. One of the rocks has way too many mushrooms on it and they started to spread so I decided to cook those rocks. They've been sitting in my basement with just a thermometer and powerhead for about a month now. The mushrooms are all dead. Had to do lots of water changes but the rocks are nice and clean now, although I am still cooking. I know you have encrusted corals on some of your rocks so you don't want to do that to all of them. You might just have to bite the bullet and chisel them off the rock so that you can clean it. They will grow back :-) Also, you don't need 90lbs of rocks to seed your new rocks. Maybe half of that?

[mseepman]

So bringing this thread back from the archives...this tank started with a plague algae of some type that no-one could ever identify...but since then, valonia got in on a frag and has completely taken over. It's overcome all but the hardiest of corals and has covered about 50% of the rock. I prune out a baseball sized amount each week and you can't tell I even touched it. I run a fuge on this plus GFO and Carbon (via reactors). I do have some phosphates...but still less than my main tank (which has no algae problems)

Any suggestions to deal with this? I have thought about taking the rock out to scrub it down but I have a pistol/goby pair and if the rock comes out I won't be able to get it back in through the sand...thus the pistol will probably dig out a hole and get crushed.