algae bloom

Hi guys! New guy here. Been battling with this brown algae for some time now in my 5 months old 25g wb peninsula mini. It’s basically everywhere, on my rocks on my wave pump on the glass on the sand bed. If I clean it it comes back the next day. Parameters: Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 10...

Hey all, I have a 25 gallon AIO, been up for over a year, I feel like in my old 75 gallon tank I had this too but what is all this stuff on my rocks? I’m assuming it’s a buildup of some algae, it’s not hair algae but I’ve never known what it is and usually I just up my flow and get more snails...

I've been constantly cleaning the aquarium and battling this thing for over a month now, using diy coral snow, plus corals snow+bacteria for the last 3 days, while also dosing phosphates as they're tanked, and don't seem to be able to get rid of these. I clean everything. I vacuum, blow them off...

Hello all! New to Reef2Reef, back into the hobby after a few years. Hoping someone can put my mind at ease. My Waterbox 20 is 73 days old, I have CaribSea LifeRock and special grade live sand, cycled with Dr. Tim's. Smooth sailing up to 2 weeks ago, this algae has begun to reer its ugly...

Hey everyone! So this tank has been up and running for about two months now. Everything was going smoothly at first, but then my auto feeder accidentally dumped more food than it should have—and I didn’t catch it right away. Next thing I knew, I had a bloom in the tank. I added a UV...

So the winter sun was hitting the side of my tank just right and I’m having an algae explosion on the glass. It’s made its way into the sump hoses. The snails, and the crabs and the pods help. But they don’t eliminate it. I have to manually scrape it off weekly. It has invaded my sump hoses now...

Hello Fellow Reefers Let’s start off with my story. I have a Waterbox 25 Peninsula. It is an AIO and has been up and running since late May/June. I have now stumbled across some sort of algae issue. I am unsure if it’s algae or dinos or something else? I’m going to be honest I got lazy with...

I’ve been having this algae and I finally got a microscope and I have no idea what it is but it’s all over my sand bed and rock and when I take it off the sand beg it’s like one big mat of algae that comes right off, idk what to look for under the microscope but I did my best with the sample and...

I posted a thread not too long ago about this but it’s gotten a lot worse since then. I’ve cut down on feeding, and I’m scraping and picking out as much as i can every day but it just keeps growing!! Any suggestions pls lmk! P.S. I will be upgrading to a 65g soon so the larger body of water...

Hey all, I'm still having issues with the "new" tank. Ever since the old established one popped a leak, ive been having issue after issue. My problem now: algae bloom & dying corals. My star polyps are THRIVING. Everything else? Not so much. I lost a galaxea & a hammer today, al9ng with my...

Hey, I am helping my uncle cycle his tank through a fishless cycle. The tank has 3 rocks that were moved over from a 7 year old tank. The sand was also live sand. The tank has been developing an insane amount of algae (check pics). Some of the rocks even have oxygen bubbles on it. We have kept...

My tank is getting overrun with what I believe to be dinoflagellates. I know small/new tank syndrome is probably part of it, but is there any way to get rid of it? I heard that raising nitrates and phosphates could help, but that’s a scary idea to me as I have some sensitive animals in the tank...

I have a fluval evo 13.5g and I’m in desperate need of a wavemaker because no matter how much I wipe it off, algae keeps building up on my rock and bubbles keep getting trapped under it which is super ugly. It also keeps building on my sand to the point that it looks like ugly dark green...

So I recently started dosing SeaChem Stability and I just finished the initial seven days of daily dosing. There has been a lot of algae build up on my rocks, which I believe is a result of that dosing. I’ve been noticing though that my rocks are covered in bubbles. I assume it’s the rocks...

I am month 4 from setting up. Started with new sand and 1/2 new dry rock Other rock was from my previous build and was just in a brute with circulating water. This algae just started to show up. Cleaner crew consist of about: 10 hermits 3 fighting conch 6 nerite snails AWC 2 gallon a day

Hi everyone! Long story short my tank is about 2 weeks old and around 1 week in I added some microalgae and started dosing cheato grow to feed it, I stopped dosing it a few days ago. Since then I've had this green algae grow all over my rocks, decorations and sand. Can someone help me ID this...

Hey all, Happy New Year! :star-struck: I'm really struggling with my tank and wondering if anyone has any advice as I keep seeing conflicting info online... My tank has been up for 5 months now, its a Reefer 250 with about 230L volume minus rocks.. I've got x6 Blue/Green Chromis, x2 Juvenile...

This is a golden color and defiantly gets some bubble shapes. It comes, I clean it out manually and don't have too much problem then comes back.

Hey folks! I'm going through my first cycle in my 250L tank and I decided to use the Red Sea Mature Pro to get things going, but actually this seems to have over-complicated things and now I'm a bit lost.. I had been dosing according to the instruction manual and on day 10 the expected...

I used to have bryopsis and I got rid of it using this white medicine powder from LFS. However I can't seem to get rid of this different species and it's overunning the rockscape. I don't have much CUC left and need to get some anyways but if it's bryopsis I don't know if it'll help anyways. I...

After a recent post I made complaining about diatoms...I was losing the battle and realized as the bloom got worse I may in fact have a Dino issue. I know there are plenty of ways to fight this but I need a bit of guidance. Substrate is 75% covered with them siphoning works but they reappear by...

So, I went to visit some family for a month and had someone working at my LFS help me with my reef tank. Unfortunately, when I came back to my apartment, my reef tank was a complete mess (probably need to restart potentially). Tank: 32 Biocube Livestock: 2 Clownfish 1 Snowflake Eel (small)...

My little standalone HOB filter isn't cutting it anymore. I have no Skimmer and rather than just add a little HOB Skimmer I will be converting a 10 Gallon I have been using to prep water for water changes into a sump. Frequent water changes are getting annoying and I get frequent algae and...

Hi Reef-buds I have a few questions! Mostly identification queries as I'm a noob and I have years of knowledge ahead of me that still needs to be obtained. I'm about at the 5 month mark on my tank. Started with dry rock in the display and live rock in the sump. The system carries about 100...

I found a tube worm growing on a snail shell so that's interesting. I have had a recent brown hair algae outbreak and I am wondering if it will pass or what I have to do about it. I have a spirobid worm outbreak does anybody know how to take care of them?