How to stop coralline algae

[ecoreefguy]

This still is getting pretty annoying. I started off with completely dead rock to slow down this stuff from taking over. It’s completely taking over my rock, and my back wall. I literally scrape it off the wall and a week later it’s almost solid again. Hard to tell from picture but it’s starting to cover individual pebbles in the sand -.-

Any idea how to slow it down??

 

[Valhoon]

No clue how to stop, but hey at least it’s a nice problem to have lol.

 

[ecoreefguy]

No clue how to stop, but hey at least it’s a nice problem to have lol.

Until you realize how much of the elements it’s yanking out of the water and out competing corals

 

[msporleder]

It's funny -- I didn't have any at all for four years until very recently after my latest tank crash. Now i have a few small spots growing very slowly.

At petco in edgewood they have one tank *covered* in it (even all of the little snails are purple) but none of the other tanks have any. They're all on connected systems!

 

[shanepike]

Pincushion urchins reportedly eat coralline. I'm hoping they do

 

[ecoreefguy]

Pincushion urchins reportedly eat coralline. I'm hoping they do

I’m going to try and get one than. It’s draining alk

 

[jcook54]

Urchins will eat it but they seem to take off the top layer and this allowed it to come back pretty quick. I feel your pain though, it can reach plague levels in a healthy tank.

 

[myvwrock]

Never thought I would see the day when Coralline algae is a Nuisance. I would have people come in the store years ago asking for coralline algae scrapings to seed their tank

 

[richards]

My phosphate rose (into low whole numbers) early this year, from heavy feeding and growing fish in the reef tank. The Coraline mysteriously disappeared last winter.

I added GFO in a reactor to lower phosphate down to 0.25: SPS showed new dramatic growth, better color, and calcareous algae has returned, lol. But, again, I like coralline algae…...