I finally got my new 75 G tank up and running, got it at 1.022 SG, and currently only about 35 pounds of base very clean and porous rock (going to order 30-50 pounds more), yesterday I tested nitrate, nitrite, ammonia nitrates and PH just in case and everything was spot on. So I dumped 4 oz of Dr. Tims One and Only and dossed Dr Tim's ammonia to 2 ppm for a quick fishless cycle.
Now I have a 29 biocube with live rock with a TON of nice looking coraline algae that I was thinking of using to seed my dry rock, the rock also has mini brittle stars which I like, and some pods, and some really small white asterina starfish, which have been in the biocube for 2 years with no issues, however I don't have any coral in them, and I've read that they can eat zoas, perhaps only some types of them?. These ones are just white and no bigger than 3/16 inch.
Anyway the rock also has a quite a bit of many different types of algae, hair algae, red algae, some other green algae that is very stiff and encrusted in the rock but that grows very slowly, bubble algae, red slime... it is not out of control, but there is quite a bit of it, in fact I have to take some of the rock out every water change and scrub it to prevent it from becoming a bigger problem. I strongly believe the algae issue on my biocube is related to the live rock I bought at the beginning - all of it had algae on it even bubble algae, at the time I didn't know any better and i though it was kinda cool... but well eventually trouble happened.
I was originally thinking about scrubbing the ones that are the cleanest ones really well and then put them on with the 75 g tank, but I am thinking I might just introduce many unwanted pests, I will have a 150 NWB SS Protein skimmer in the Sump, filter socks and some cheato, so it should be much better for algae control than a biocube can be, is it possible that the algae on the live rock will just die off?. I am of course using 0 TDS water.
Because of this I stumpled across: http://www.ipsf.com/corallinebooster.html was wondering if anyone has used this with success to seed coraline, I noticed they also sell mini brittle stars very likely the ones I have tons off in my biocube and that I consider to be good scavengers, they are no longer than 2 inches, but most are an inch or so. I am now considering buying that coraline seeder and perhaps some of the brittle stars, some amphipods and just forget about the other rock in the biocube or cook it (not with heat but with the proper method). The biocube will be active for at least 4 more months though, and will be used to quarantine the new arrivals.
What should I do?
Now I have a 29 biocube with live rock with a TON of nice looking coraline algae that I was thinking of using to seed my dry rock, the rock also has mini brittle stars which I like, and some pods, and some really small white asterina starfish, which have been in the biocube for 2 years with no issues, however I don't have any coral in them, and I've read that they can eat zoas, perhaps only some types of them?. These ones are just white and no bigger than 3/16 inch.
Anyway the rock also has a quite a bit of many different types of algae, hair algae, red algae, some other green algae that is very stiff and encrusted in the rock but that grows very slowly, bubble algae, red slime... it is not out of control, but there is quite a bit of it, in fact I have to take some of the rock out every water change and scrub it to prevent it from becoming a bigger problem. I strongly believe the algae issue on my biocube is related to the live rock I bought at the beginning - all of it had algae on it even bubble algae, at the time I didn't know any better and i though it was kinda cool... but well eventually trouble happened.
I was originally thinking about scrubbing the ones that are the cleanest ones really well and then put them on with the 75 g tank, but I am thinking I might just introduce many unwanted pests, I will have a 150 NWB SS Protein skimmer in the Sump, filter socks and some cheato, so it should be much better for algae control than a biocube can be, is it possible that the algae on the live rock will just die off?. I am of course using 0 TDS water.
Because of this I stumpled across: http://www.ipsf.com/corallinebooster.html was wondering if anyone has used this with success to seed coraline, I noticed they also sell mini brittle stars very likely the ones I have tons off in my biocube and that I consider to be good scavengers, they are no longer than 2 inches, but most are an inch or so. I am now considering buying that coraline seeder and perhaps some of the brittle stars, some amphipods and just forget about the other rock in the biocube or cook it (not with heat but with the proper method). The biocube will be active for at least 4 more months though, and will be used to quarantine the new arrivals.
What should I do?