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I guess its time for me to do some maintenance of my tunze streams.... they are functioning at 50% coz the intakes are half covered by coralline algae in my FOWLR tank!

Pardon the bad photo... i am using a very cheap camera! And just realised the camera date is wrong also! It's just taken today!

The amazing thing is that i have not changed water in years plus not dosing or using my CR at all! ;)

Also I don't use a skimmer and I only grow chaetos in the tank itself as a food source and a biological filter! :D

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Coralline algae just loves plastic. I got sick and tired of taking out my Streams and scraping them/soaking them in acid that I kinda left it like this for a quite a few months.... I wanna see how much the coralline algae can plate out like plate corals.... haha!

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Wah nice man

Can give me some to seed my tank haha :evil:

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To you, I shall be unique in all the world...

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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wah cau.. i want also dun hv.. but that is way too much liao.. hahaha

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wah cau.. i want also dun hv.. but that is way too much liao.. hahaha

The coralline algae actually diverts the water flow downwards now as you can see that the plating coralline algae has grown over and downwards over the nozzle! :pinch:

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Hahaha! Thanks! But I consider coralline algae a pest. I have used a lot of effort to scrap them out of my black background and walls until I gave up. Thankfully, they now only encrust my LR and Tunze Streams.

And frankly, I've not done anything to my water parameters to keep it optimal. It's actually shamefully quite 'dusty'! :D

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actually it looks nice to me. dun scape it off lah. :lol:

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AT ... u've got ur very own tunze rock ...

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Coralline algae just loves plastic. I got sick and tired of taking out my Streams and scraping them/soaking them in acid that I kinda left it like this for a quite a few months.... I wanna see how much the coralline algae can plate out like plate corals.... haha!

Wah i got a whole lot of coralline taking over y internal filter.Purple plating monti............ :whistle

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Wow... even after so much neglect, you still manages to amaze us with just simple pix of your coralines encrusted tunze. :bow::bow::bow:

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Wow... even after so much neglect, you still manages to amaze us with just simple pix of your coralines encrusted tunze. :bow::bow::bow:

Awesome? Wait till you see my Hammerhead shark in my FOWLR tank.... JUST KIDDING!! :D

Nah.... please!! Nothing awesome here.... I still think the most awesome thing to ever happen in my reef tank is to see two yellow humilis corals spawn simultaneously in my tank with clouds of ahem... you know.... life-giving white liquid. :paiseh:

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:rolleyes: U sure it's not calcified 'Fish Poo'...Hee Hee Hee ! :eyebrow:

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Awesome? Wait till you see my Hammerhead shark in my FOWLR tank.... JUST KIDDING!! :D

Nah.... please!! Nothing awesome here.... I still think the most awesome thing to ever happen in my reef tank is to see two yellow humilis corals spawn simultaneously in my tank with clouds of ahem... you know.... life-giving white liquid. :paiseh:

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Wow!!! To me that's the right way to reef: - taking time and letting nature takes it course. :eyebrow: Many a times, we see enthusiasts throwing in $$$ for a quick solution only to de-comm after a short period. :unsure:

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Wow!!! To me that's the right way to reef: - taking time and letting nature takes it course. :eyebrow: Many a times, we see enthusiasts throwing in $$$ for a quick solution only to de-comm after a short period. :unsure:

Yeah, its an ABSOLUTE shame how some reefers can get overly ambitious in their quest to get the best stuff and end up decommisioning their tank after only a short while. Worse still, their drive caused them to be become nasty, greedy and become someone they shouldn't have to be.... its just a hobby after all. So sad. Seen so many cases... their passions have been vanquished. Burnt out? :rolleyes:

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