Nuisance Algae, the Ultimate Guide to Management and Control | #50

[wmars]

Thank you Jake for your wonderful service you have done for the world. You will be missed very much. One love

[MrGarciaJr]

This is one I will always come back to.

[rolisreefranch]

God bless you, Jake. Wherever you are.

[CartersToyBox]

I love this conversation. Thank you guys, you nailed it.

Everyone’s tank and style of reefkeeping is different. So specific numbers will be different. But nutrients are not a bad thing corals actually really like them lol.

In my experience higher nutrients = less negative issues 🤷🏼‍♂️….Alkalinity I’ve only had issues under 7 and over 14.5 lol anywhere in the middle I’ve been good.

[estonianreefer]

50 sessions of reef therapy which I all have listened while doing tank maintenance 🤣 so, easily more than 50 hours of some sort of tank related stuff while listening to reef therapy

[Waynerock]

Tooth brush zip tied to the end of your WC hose is such a classic tool. I’ll just brush down the exposed rock once a month or so and the rock always stays so clean and nice. Takes all the gunk out at the same time. Rocks look great even under full whites, it always had a “fuzz” to it. Great RT you guys could go on with this topic for days, so much to talk about. It would all be killer to listen to I always learn something.

[reefaddictsmerch]

Love Reef Therapy! As one who struggled with dino for almost a year in my newest display I can say it definitely can be a pest. UV handled the osteoporosis but then had amphidinium's which I probably spend hundreds of dollars on bacteria and pods to try to rid. Eventually just let it run its course and finally is gone.

[dusk]

No, you had it correct Mark.
Going back to "Liebig's law of the minimum": In a high energy planted tank, you're supplementing the CO2 in order to allow Aquatic Grasses and the other Macrophytes to outcompete the simple algae's. In freshwater (and saltwater) dissolved carbon can be the limiting rate step for photosynthetic organisms due to waters limited ability to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere.
So when you're dosing fertilizers (primary macro nutrients, secondary macro nutrients, and micro nutrients), the only bottle neck is the lack of available carbon. When you eliminate that limiting rate, and push it higher than it should go naturally, the plant growth outcompetes algae's.

Now back to marine systems: I particularly enjoyed the macro algae discussion. I personally love using macro algae on reverse daylight to consume CO2, consume excess nutrients, outcompete other algae, and raise pH. However, I have yet to not have a batch eventually crash.

Eventually, even cheato crashes on me. Though I found Ulva to be my personal favorite, which seems to grow faster than the cheato strains I've had access to, but Ulva seems to crash even faster. And that's with dosing a supplement like "cheato grow".

However, even with those challenges I vastly prefer having a sump with some kind of algae chamber. As you said, it allows us to choose the dominant species of algae to deal with

[campbellwatson]

recently picked up a copy of the modern coral reef aquarium. Really great info - as an ecology student it is an excellent read!

[chrisbleurgh]

1:08:00 - So true. Cycling my first saltwater tank and a local hobbyist was showing me his. While he was tending to something I watched his blue tang lift some birdsnest from one side of the tank bring it all the way over above his clam and dropped it bang in the middle - clam did not like that and tried closing on the new frag.

[CartersToyBox]

I’m guilty of over feeding….

And wen you mentioned turning your lights down for algae it made me take a real hard look at my tanks and the ones with more algae….. I turned a couple down lol.

[josephgabris]

This was a great session. I’m definitely going to watch it again and it was fun to listen to

[wald_inator]

Realy interesting session as always.
Ans as an forest ecologist who has an reeftank i can say that at least i didn‘t scream internally because of Jakes grassland to old growth forest comparison. This comparison, even tho simplified, is still pretty good, after all succession happens as far as I know in every ecosystem on earth.

[Fachmi_miun]

thank you sir for the useful information,
greetings from Indonesia 😊🙏

[peterlien]

Love this conversation. I have a 220 with GHA and turf issue. Have 4 tangs (blue, sail, mimic, Scopas) and I was feeding them heavy and they didn't really know they were supposed to eat the algae. I cut food way back and the the tangs are now cleaning house. I can't believe the behavior change. Issue solved. Thanks.

[mickdesousa]

Excellent indepth episode, definitely one of my favourite 👍

[ProducerReef]

This session is on repeat all weekend💯💯💯💯💯💯

[trikhoachannelcsmt]

GOOD sharing my dear have a GREAT day STAY CONNECT

[Aqua_noob]

That session was perfect! Thank you guys!

[thereefhobbyist]

No love for Centropyge☹️?! Also, I love that Jake changed his tune on “asterinas” eating coral. My dead zoas and I appreciate you!