algae

Hello, I've been battling this algae for a couple months now and I can't get rid of it... I can really use some help, quitting this awesome hobby has crossed my mind.. It's a very slimy fuzzy looking brown algae/bacteria. I've tried sucking it of, which reduces it a lot but only the top layer...

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I would have assumed that this question was asked before, but I didn’t see it anywhere. But, I’m sorry if it’s a repeat and I just missed it. ‘Soon I will be ready to set up a 50g reef aquarium, with a 20g sump. My plan is to incorporate a refugium into my sump. I’ve read a lot of articles and...

Hello, My tank is currently 2 months old, problems started a month ago, when I though that Dino appeared in the tank (phosphates bottomed to 0) and I did 5 day black out and dosing bacter7, but recently I discovered that algae on rocks turning green. Here are some photos: 1. During water...

Before this one i had diatoms (they’re not 100% cleared out but are practically only on the glass, before they were everywhere) Now this green algae is everywhere and it’s quite ugly. My tank is about 4 months old.

With a recent order from Gulf Live Rock, I started a 90-gallon tank with a 44g Brute sump for isolating ocean-direct live rock and culturing dry rock from the live rock. Algae is starting to grow all over this tank, and I am looking for methods to keep it in check. The issue with remedy...

I’m having a weird thing that may be algae growing on my already diatom covered dry rock. Can anyone please tell me what it is? Thanks!

Hello. so my tank is 2 months old with some cromis and clean up crew. I have a lot of diatoms on the sand bed and a large amount of dinoflagellates on all my rocks, algae all on my glass that I scrape off daily. Ive noticed some slime algae on the rocks as well, there is hair algae everywhere...

Hey guys once again battling algae… started dinox last night and it says not to add trace elements and no products that absorb. My tank is ultra low nutrient and I want to add Neonitro to help battle the Dino’s. Can I do both at the same time?

Hi y’all, my Biocube has recently been pounced on by some sort of algae or Dinos i think. I wasn’t able to get the best pictures but it’s like brownish color and at first I thought it was just diatoms but now it’s long and grasslike and billows in the current. It’s all over my glass but only a...

Hi. i think most of you guys have seen a post like this before. Right now I have a green hair algae outbreak. I’ve been trying to manually remove them while doing water changes weekly. my tank is around one year old, I’ve got a torch coral, a BTA, GSP, Yuma, and a Zoanthid in the tank. A clown...

Hello and thanks for looking at my post, I have some nuisance algae in my tank and I wanted to remove it so I contacted brs and asked what they thought they pretty much told me that I don’t need a Uv sterlizer or anything but rather should start trying to grow some coralline in the tank, is this...

Hello everyone, I’ve been having issues with green hair algae in my system. I have a phosphate reactor and a skimmer in my sump that work fine but the green hair algae is taking over. I’ve removed it by hand several times and I’ve tried dosing it with algae remover but that doesn’t help...

Hey everyone! Had this tank running since January, and have only just noticed how large these brown algae spots have gotten. They were originally quite small, thought it may be diatoms, but I’ve attempted to take the rock out and scrub them off, as well as peroxide them, but they stay...

Does someone know what is this pinkish, branching organism?-not even sure if it is an alga.

So I've been in the hobby for 3 years, I have a 90 gallon mixed reef that has been very successful. I recently started up a 13.5 fluval evo nano, I used all established live rock from my 90 gallon system sump. The tank inhabits 2 clowns, an urchin and a narcissus snail, plus a few zoa frags...

When i try to scrape it off it disperses like sand. Everything is turning brown, even the substrate and glass. I tried buying a phosphate test buy i could find it here so i’ll try and see if an aquarium store can perform the water tests. The ammonia is at 0.25ppm and salinity at 1024

Does anyone have an idea what this could be? I have had them pop up on the past and I thought it was Dino’s, but it disappeared for a while and now has made its way back, but now more than ever. Should I dose vibrant? Thank you!

Bubble algae issue is getting way out of hand, I’ve got 6 emerald crabs in a 50 g display (90g system) and they haven’t made a dent. Manual removal isn’t really an option most of the rock work is covered in coral or fused together with putty making it way too large to pull out. I try to scrape...

i started getting this algae on 2 rocks at the bottom / back area of my 150g mixed. what algae is it and what should i do to fix it? thanks in advance

I have been noticing on every reef tank I see, they have clean sand beds... Any tips for that? I cant seem to keep the algae out of it no matter what I do, its not a bad breakout its kinda just there... In some spots but not in others. -------------------------------------- I have a Fluval Evo...

Hello Everyone, can somebody please help me identify this algae. It’s really bushy and waves in the water flow. It’s growing on the back glass as well. Any idea if this is green hair or turf algae? What’s the difference? Any ideas to bring this under control? I added a Torchus snail and a...

Hello, I was hoping someone could help me ID this algae in this photo?

I just left yesterday for a 5 day trip and today I got these pictures showing an orange algae that was not in the tank 30 hours ago. The GHA was from my sister avoiding maintenance while I was gone for college which makes it harder to see but Im amazed by how much of the orange has grown in a 30...

So I have a 20g reef tank, and recently a tuxedo urchin died in it, I found him before he completely rotted out, but since then I had a huge green algae bloom and now I found this think in the photo. Temp: 26c alk: 8.06 dkh Cal: 346 mg/l Mag: 1284mg/l I don’t have phosphate or nitrate atm, I...