Coralline Algae Question (Solana 34)

[Djbetterly]

I've been looking at a lot of established tanks on this forum, and one of the things I have yet to experience is coralline algae. From what I gather a lot of people like the look of the algae, where as I personally do not. Has anyone ever heard of putting a removable piece of black acrylic modded to fit over the current black background so it can be removed and scraped clean? I've read how a lot of people have difficulty scraping the algae off the solana background because of its texture.

Thoughts? Words of wisdom?

 

[noelskii]

Thats gonna be difficult to accomplish. You'd have to do your rock work so that it's not touching the back wall? Just try not to introduce any coralline into your tank..


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[Djbetterly]

I was under the impression that coralline was just going to occur naturally as the tank matured, am I wrong?


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[B.BASH]

When you see small white dots the the coraline starting to grow wipe them off before they change color

 

[reefer4eva]

i dont mind it on the rocks as far as the glass im with you on this one i like the clean look also

 

[Djbetterly]

Totally cool with having it on rocks but back wall and glass need to be clean. I'm trying to figure out if anyone has ever put a sort of removable acrylic mask over the back wall to make fire easier cleaning. I contacted inTank and they won't help me out so I need to do some more research.

 

[masterswimmer]

D, why not just wait until your tank gets the coraline growth you so dislike, then add a nice urchin to the tank? Tuxedo Urchins and Pencil Urchins are both reef safe and will feast on coraline algae. Don't add both, only one. This is a great way to do your maintenance naturally as opposed to devising a way to 'protect' the false wall in a Solana.

HTH
Russ

 

[JonnyJ]

D, why not just wait until your tank gets the coraline growth you so dislike, then add a nice urchin to the tank? Tuxedo Urchins and Pencil Urchins are both reef safe and will feast on coraline algae. Don't add both, only one. This is a great way to do your maintenance naturally as opposed to devising a way to 'protect' the false wall in a Solana.

HTH
Russ

Probably the best answer your going to receive,

I hated my solana for the longest until that ugly black background turned purple lol. To each his own...

 

[Djbetterly]

Well stated, to each their own...Thank you for the great responses.

 

[homegrowncichlid]

the snails grazed off the coraline in my tank, preventing them from growing. I use to have lots of coraline, till the snails ate them all down. You just need lots of snails, so they keep running over it again and again

 

[Djbetterly]

What snails do you have in your tank?