I mean its probably 100 lbs of (rock at least) all covered with about 3" long hair algae. Not really sure that snails will do it. Then again this is my first big tank jumping from a 40.Welcome to new tank syndrome!
Depends on the route you want to take. I did manual removal/water changes with 5 large Mexican turbo snails. Your side tank maybe 10-15?
Others have used hydrogen peroxide (I think @Chris A. will correct me if I am wrong). Others let it ride and wait for the uglies to go away.
That is a lot of algae though so you might need to remove the rock if it doesn’t go away.
Either way... you will go through a couple different algae problems in the first year or so.
It was from someone else’s tank. Didn’t see any gha on his rock but who knowsWas the rock cured or dry rock? I would be surprised if that showed up over night though....
Pellets, im thinking cutting/scraping all of it and then buying turbos. It’s not spreading anymore btw so I’m assuming it’s from the cycle. I added dr Tim’s ammonium chloride for the cycleAre you feeding pellets or frozen? That seemed to add a lot of nutes to my tank causing a lot of algae problems in the beg of my tanks. This could all be bad advice but I would make sure your filter is good with lots of air exchange and changing carbon every 2 weeks, water changes every week, make sure enough flow too (one flow and one pulse/wave). I would try to scrape it off the rocks during water change and make sure to not add too many nutes or too bright of lights that could be causing it. I would let this ride with lots of clean up crew with out adding corals but adding fish for 2-4 months and if all this fails non stop I would then think about reef hd as a possible way to remove it.
If it’s the rocks leachingn what can I do? I can not afford another 100+lbs of rockI would start with manual removal.
few 20g water changes/removal and a few Mexican turbos after removing some like @aresangel said above.
That method has worked for me, gonna be a battle either way due to it being a new tank and possible rock leaching.
It’s weird how long the gha got and I didn’t even run the lights during 90% of the cycleI just went through a battle with Dino’s and algae. I did a blackout and dosed with hydrogen peroxide. After uncovering my tank it looked great. After some questioning on here I got that dosing with hydrogen peroxide CONSTANTLY wasn’t a good thing. Dino’s came back a little bit then I just went to manual removal once a week when I do my 10% water change. Dino’s gone and just green hair algae I just suck up with my 1/4”-3/8” siphon tube. It’s easy, I just look at it like weekly maintainence like cleaning the glass. No big deal. Tuxedo urchin hammers the algae along with a few other snails.
It’s weird how long the gha got and I didn’t even run the lights during 90% of the cycle
This brush fits on the end of a hose very nicely and works great for getting GHA off rocks.
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If it’s the rocks leachingn what can I do? I can not afford another 100+lbs of rock
they can not leech after the entire once living matter decomposes