burtbollinger
12/19/2008, 08:30 AM
I just shut down one of my tanks last night....now cooking the rock for a few months to kill off caupera racemosa that appeared on some rocks and took hold...(grape calupera).
I had a stealth heater in the back of this tank....no algae or anything on it....today, I rinsed it off with tap, wiped it off, rinsed and repeated again and I am now using this heater to heat my freshly mixed saltwater in a tub.
Do I need to worry about this heater acutally contaminating the newly mixed water with calupera spores that could later appear in my main tank?
I'm feeling rather paranoid (VERY paranoid, actually) about calupera right now...just really dont want to have to deal with it again after just having to tear a tank down because of it.
FYI, the outbreak was still rather small, and nothing had gone "sexual" or whatever....just some calupera appearing on some of the rocks. not a ton of it even, just a light amount of growth beginning to spread from rock to roc.
THANKS!
I had a stealth heater in the back of this tank....no algae or anything on it....today, I rinsed it off with tap, wiped it off, rinsed and repeated again and I am now using this heater to heat my freshly mixed saltwater in a tub.
Do I need to worry about this heater acutally contaminating the newly mixed water with calupera spores that could later appear in my main tank?
I'm feeling rather paranoid (VERY paranoid, actually) about calupera right now...just really dont want to have to deal with it again after just having to tear a tank down because of it.
FYI, the outbreak was still rather small, and nothing had gone "sexual" or whatever....just some calupera appearing on some of the rocks. not a ton of it even, just a light amount of growth beginning to spread from rock to roc.
THANKS!