Excess coraline???

[May&Bruce]

I have lots and lots of coraline in my 150 gal reef tank. I really have no problem and it grows everywhere. Of course I have no problem with this at all, as the more the merrier except that it is also starting to grow on the sand, meaning I have to rake the sand daily.

And no, its not red slime algae, or other red algae, it is def coraline algae growing on the sand.

Any ideas what to do? Just leave it or what?

[peacemaker]

How bout harvesting and give it away to anyone who wants to seed their tank with it?

[May&Bruce]

How bout harvesting and give it away to anyone who wants to seed their tank with it?

Can, .....bits the size of 50 cent coins or larger sometimes fall off the rear glass....

[Vlamingi_cont]

How about removing your sandbed??? Or Change your sandbed and add a few burrowing species like banana wrasse where they sleep in the sand at night or gobies??? Think about it...

[May&Bruce]

How about removing your sandbed??? Or Change your sandbed and add a few burrowing species like banana wrasse where they sleep in the sand at night or gobies??? Think about it...

I have a plenum tank design so the deep sand bed is integral to that. I vacuum the sand and replace some every 6 months or so. I used to have a couple of gobies but they used to shift too much sand and bury corals that were down low. Now I have three sand dollars but they are pretty useless. maybe i need the gobies again and just move any low corals out of the way

[Vlamingi_cont]

I have a plenum tank design so the deep sand bed is integral to that. I vacuum the sand and replace some every 6 months or so. I used to have a couple of gobies but they used to shift too much sand and bury corals that were down low. Now I have three sand dollars but they are pretty useless. maybe i need the gobies again and just move any low corals out of the way

Maybe work hard abit place a layer of puka shell

[May&Bruce]

Maybe work hard abit place a layer of puka shell

what's puka shell?

[Vlamingi_cont]

what's puka shell?

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[May&Bruce]

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Ah OK, I see

[May&Bruce]

Anyone else have any advise for me?

[piero]

Coraline on sand?

Never seen that before man... I too have lots of coraline algae on my tank and rocks cos rocks have been used for 6 years liao.

never got the problem of it growing on my sand.

Probably can use a goby or sea cucumber to help you clean the sand

[Metam]

Anyone else have any advise for me?

as for me...i will leave it...damn swee when red red on my sandbed!