Coraline Algae, Nuisance?

[SSalty]

Anyone else concider Coraline algae a nuisance algae? Well, I do (to a point). It is nice having coraline on the live rocks but I hate when it takes over the glass, overflow, powerheads, mag float, etc..

I am sure most people love it, but maybe I am just weird.

[Piggy]

I'll trade you the headache of coraline algae for red algae anyday.

[Altohombre]

when you rocks were bare I am sure you weren't thinking like that.

[cthegame]

all i care about is that it doesnt grow on my front glass. I already lost the battle for the side glass...only a few inches left to look thru on the side...so yea, i consider it a more brutal nuisance algae.

But hey there is always chaeto to cheer us up!

[Bifferwine]

Get yourself a MagFloat with an Easy Blade attachment. Coralline on the glass doesn't stand a chance.

[cthegame]

Ill get one for the front glass. But now i think if i attempt to remove this coralline from the side, it will ruin my tank. Its looking cool but my tank is now limited to front view only.

[chaosfinity]

Wow i didnt know they made a magfloat with a blade on it I want one! I would consider coraline a nuisance as it grows everywhere i dont want it to and no where i want it to. Doh.

[fatman]

More hard corals to compete for calcium means less coraline algae. Scraoing or scrubbing algae back into tank leaves all the nutrients in the tank to be quickly taken up by replacement algae. Ifyour going to scrape coraline algae off the glass do it when your pulling water for a water change. Scrape algae and siphon out with the water. If scrubbing soft algae use a scrub pad, reach in tank to bottom of area to be scrubbed, scrub upward and remove scrubber drom water. Rinse scrubber out side of tank and repeat. Export your algae or it will be back very quickly. Skimmers sre not that great at removing ll the nutrients. Scraped or scrubbed algae readily become dissolved organic compounds. They make a lot more products to make reefing "chores" easier (IE magfloats), but veryfew products to make reefing "husbandry" better.

[yote]

Coralline does get to be a pain in the butt.I'm about to the point of hating it myself.

[Doc]

You are all candy-asses!!! Where coralline is....hair algae ain't!!! I would take a mild scraping of my glass once a week to get rid of the spots than having to battle that hair algae crap ANYDAY!!!

It is all about keeping on top of it. A good scrape once a week takes care of mine. Having a good cleaning crew crawling on the glass helps as well as my mag float. if the spores are disturbed, they just don't seem to grow. I seem to run my mag float daily, whether I need to or not, just to keep the coralline down

-Doc