algae bloom

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?

Hi all! I started up a new tank after finding out I hated my 75 gallon bowfront. The new tank has been set up for about 2 weeks. I'm pretty sure I've got the regular diatom bloom, but I am new to the hobby and want to verify I am not creating a habitat for something worse. See the pics below. Is...

My tank is starting to get over run by algae, I know there’s a lot of chemicals and additives to rid algae growth but what is a very quick for sure way to rid algae from corals Skelton, between polyps??? I’m dealing with very annoying hair algae no matter what I do I’m thinking turning off...

Hello Reefers, I have a 20g long tank and I'm loving it, my tank has been up and running since February of 2021. I've lost about three corals, a sand sifting star, three fish, and two emerald crabs since the start of my tank. I'm afraid I'm going to lose more of my corals, because of gha and...

Went away for a week and came home to this completely taking over my sump. Protein skimmer working very hard. Used up half my reef mat in 3 days. It feels very slimy and comes apart quite easily. The consistency almost feels like slime around a piece of string, but the second you touch it, it...

Hello guys! I just started my first tank about 9 weeks ago and I just want to see what you guys thought on the different types of algae and bacteria. Its all new to me so I really can’t tell what’s good or bad since it is my first tank ever!I if you guys have any suggestions or things that you...

Hey everyone, quick question about what this might be on my rock. 3 days ago I broke down my rock and rescaped it. The last day or two I have gotten this what looks like dust all over my rock? It easily gets blown off with a turkey baster, but I have no idea what it is. It’s almost like dust...

I've been having the Algae grow and i cannot identify it! I don't thing it's cyano because everything I read says it's green in freshwater aqariums but blue/red in saltwater aquariums. I dont know if I'm right or wrong but I recently changed from the red sea marine salt to the Coarl sea salt...

I have a few feather dusters that came in with my live rock and I love them, they have some sort of growth around the openings of the tunes, does anyone know what this is? I've only been doing this hobby for a short time and I don't even know what to accurately call it to look it up. An algae or...

i have this brown algae im assuming growing on my tank walls like crazy where im scraping almost every day( it is a month old or so tank) its now more prominant on my rock and a little on my coral, i also found this brown spot on my clown as well, im not sure if this is related. any help would...

Hi, I use RO water, perform bi-weekly water change. I notice green algae on the rocks right after my water changes. The RO filters are 3 months old and not fully used to their capacity. What I did notice was, if I don't change the water for 4 weeks the water was relatively better than 2 week...

Hi reef2reef. after battling with ich and now having setup a hospital tank, I think it is time to get control of algae in my tank. I have a lot of diatoms and a little green algae. here is what I have planned so far, please tell me if this is too many invertebrates, if there is something else...

Hello all, I’ve been having trouble with algae blooms during the day when my lights turn on and I have a UV sterilizer that was part of a yard sale bundle I got a few years back. I was wondering if anyone has tried this before and if it’s reef safe. My main concern is nitrifying bacteria but...

Hi all, hopefully you can help me!! I have a 24 gallon AIO waterbox peninsula, roughly 8 months old. I have been battling algae for the last 4-5 months. I believe its a combination of diatom, dinos and maybe cyano? the algae doesn’t completely disappear at night, but does reduce slightly. If...

Hello all, As the title says I just got back into saltwater after about 10 years. This algae whatever it is is winning the battle because I am out out idea's my water parameters are near perfect though about a week ago I added some calcium supplement (for my halimeda plant) and misread the...

Hello everyone If anyone would be kind to help us in our new tank. We have had it for 2 months now and just last week this showed up. We can't get our hand on what it is exactly. We have caribsea Life Rock and life sand Ammonia - 0 Nitrite - 0 Nitrate - 20ppm Lights are on for 6 hours We do...

Hello everyone If anyone would be kind to help us in our new tank. We have had it for 2 months now and just last week this showed up. We can't get our hand on what it is exactly. We have caribsea Life Rock and life sand Ammonia - 0 Nitrite - 0 Nitrate - 20ppm Lights are on for 6 hours We do...