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Unread 04/27/2012, 12:17 PM   #1
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Algea on my Zoa's...

Quick question- hoping someone can help me out here.

I have a very nice colony of Zoa that's developed a pretty aggressive patch of green hair algae. It's the ONLY rock/colony that has it in my tank. For the past month I've just pulled the algae off when I clean the tank, but it's starting to get tedious. Within a week the algae grows back and obscures the Zoa (overgrows) and now they're shrinking back.

Any ideas on how to get rid of this stuff once and for all?


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Unread 04/27/2012, 06:11 PM   #2
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Unread 04/27/2012, 06:47 PM   #3
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The bottle of CoralRx I have says it assists in this problem. I have never tried it for that though.


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Unread 04/27/2012, 08:21 PM   #4
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look up hydrogen peroxide. you can pull the rock and spray the rock with it, and it will kill it no problems. (there is a thread on here somewhere....)


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Unread 04/27/2012, 08:27 PM   #5
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I have had luck using Seachem's Reef Dip for these algae problems. From what I hear, Coral RX is great for parasites, and Reef Dip is actually better for all types of out of whack algae and growths.


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Unread 04/27/2012, 08:55 PM   #6
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look up hydrogen peroxide. you can pull the rock and spray the rock with it, and it will kill it no problems. (there is a thread on here somewhere....)
How will the HP affect the zoa's?


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Unread 04/27/2012, 10:14 PM   #7
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from the thread (the portions that i read) they are fine. they just close up and are fine.

some just take a needle with the tip off and shoot the rock and base of the corals to prevent any possible stress.

i have dipped a zoa frag in a bup of some, and it was fine. (took a day to open, but washappy, and 100% of algae was gone within hours. (just simple hair algae though)

if i find the thread, i will post it for you


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Unread 04/27/2012, 10:25 PM   #9
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Emeralds do good on the up close algea as well for a more natural hope method.


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Unread 04/27/2012, 11:38 PM   #10
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Thanks a lot, all. I will let you know how ot turns out.


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