Red bubble algae.... Spreading

[FlexLuthor]

U beautiful, beautiful little green monster.... I saw u eating that red gunk one by one and I nearly cried. I want to get another one... But thank Jesus....

 

[FlexLuthor]

How would this effect me adding a refugium?

 

[MikeC]

I sold all the rocks and rebooted the tank with brand new base rocks.

Sucks for the guy who bought the rocks :bigeyes2:

 

[KurtL]

A refugium would help.

 

[fishman1069]

A refugium would help.

+1 a fuge would eat up the nutrients and starve The bubble algae. It woulf have to be a decent size refugium tho

 

[FlexLuthor]

Like 10-15?
The tank is only 24 gallon

 

[MatthewScars]

breaking down is silly, i had an outbreak in my 55 and kicked it.....lower your nitrates and phosplates through use of water changes and a reactor if you have one.....add some emerald crabs and feed very lightly so they will get hungry and go after the bubble algae.....also during water changes scrape the bubbles off the rock right in front of your siphon.....its a good amount of work but its not too hard of a thing to be done....i kicked my outbreak in about 2 months

It's not silly. How much of your rock can you see from the front and sides? 50%-70%?

The bubbles just grow where you cant see them or access them. Then they spread. I tried to lower X Y Z whatever, doesnt work if you cant manually remove them. And in a populated tank, thats pretty difficult.

 

[brunoboarder2444]

It's not silly. How much of your rock can you see from the front and sides? 50%-70%?

The bubbles just grow where you cant see them or access them. Then they spread. I tried to lower X Y Z whatever, doesnt work if you cant manually remove them. And in a populated tank, thats pretty difficult.

its been done before...i think its just as dificult to get new rock go under a new cycle and get your bioload back up to what it was at.....i would atleast try and beat it before giving up especially because id have a hard time just giving up on something i worked very hard to do