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09-09-2001, 12:09 PM
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Tenant
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Hanover, MA USA
Posts: 88
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Halmedia Trimming?
Hi,
My 180 has been running skimmerless for about 3 years now and two months ago I had shoots of halmedia algea pop out of the rock, it has grown so much that I had to trim it today. I know it is a calcerous algea so my feeling is to leave the cuttings in the tank to disolve. Or... will they just take off on their own and overgrow the tank? TIA Dave |
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09-09-2001, 12:17 PM
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Citizen
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Bakersfield, CA
Posts: 170
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IME the cuttings tend to keep growing. However I too would like to know if we could dry these out and then either use in our reactors or simply re introduce them to our systems.
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09-10-2001, 02:13 AM
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Governor
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Rohnert Park, CA, USA
Posts: 1,102
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When I trim it out I throw it away.
As with most macros, people use them to remove the phosphate and nutrients from the tank by using the macro. By leaving trimmed sections in there to dissolve you are re-introducing all those same compounds that people use macro algae’s to export.
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