Well, further to the previous article, I am now an algae scrubber. No not the kind that sits in your sump.
The kind that pulls the rock out of your tank and takes a scrub brush to them.
Here are a few pics of a pile of scrubbed rocks next to some yet-to-be scrubbed.
Left is scrubbed. Right is covered in algae.
The process of scrubbing half a tank of rocks took about an hour. I only scrubbed bare rocks (no corals on them) or easy to manage rocks that only had a few corals on them. No corals were harmed in the making of this picture.
I siphoned out 15 gallons of water from the tank to use in the cleaning process. In one container I had 5 gallons of scrubbing water and in another container I had the receiving water. where the rocks sat until I was ready to put them back in the tank.
I will wait till next weekend before I tackle the other side. For some reason working with this algae gives me a terrible allergic reaction and I now feel like I am full swing in the middle of a nasty cold.
Lets hope this cleansing lasts.
As you can see, i need to do the walls too. Sigh.
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