algae

Hey reefers, I need help with an algae/bacteria ID. I’m at my wit’s end- nothing seems to match 100%. TL;DR: 664 gallon inter-plumbed trough system in retail setting. Bubbly/turfy green/brown eyesore appeared about the same time as nutrients bottoming out a few months ago. Stabilizing chems...

How's is going everyone Today while cleaning my reef tank i found this white coral like growing on my rocks , i have a few torches , zoas and one anenome in my tank , found this very odd and it's in a few spot ! is this good or bad and should i take it out asap ? i've had the tank a little...

How's is going everyone Today while cleaning my reef tank i found this white coral like growing on my rocks , i have a few torches , zoas and one anenome in my tank , found this very odd and it's in a few spot ! is this good or bad and should i take it out asap ? i've had the tank a little...

This is a new but cycled tank. Looking at the stringy things on the bottom of the rock. Parameters are good (I don't have noticable algae elsewhere). It's on a live rock that I got from someone who had there tank setup for years. I currently only have hermits for cleanup crew. If this is...

I scrub or blow off my live rock on a weekly basis and this hairy/slimy stuff keeps showing up. I’ve battled Dino and Cyano with success but can’t get rid of this stuff. Can anyone ID? If it matters it is focused on the bottom half of the live rock and I do have a good flow from 2 wavemakers...

Using a 200x (all I could get my hands on) I took this trying to ID algae. I can tell there is GHA, I think dinos, and what was that worm??? Thanks!

Hello all, first post here on R2R! I love this site because it almost always answers any questions I have. So I thought I’d give it a try with questions directing towards my setup. First off I have a 20g long Innovative Marine Lagoon. It’s been up for about a month. I recently upgraded from a...

Still new to marine system Tank going well but do I need to get rid this algae bloom on back off tank

Still new to marine system Tank going well but do I need to get rid this algae bloom on back off tank

Up for sale is a Tunze MAR 3182 (large size). I purchased this for my new tank thinking I would need it and set it up for a week, before realizing I actually need to add nutrients not remove them. Everything is included that you would get if purchased new except for the box. I threw the box...

Hello Everyone, I’ve been having a battle with what appears to be a wiry, clumpy, red turf algae for quite a while now in my nano tank. Parameters appear to be fine with nitrates around 2-3 ppm and phosphate around 0.05. I’ve been manually removing but can only get so much out, especially with...

What do all algae (and cyano too) need to survive? Nutrients. What are nutrients? Ammonia/ammonium, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate and urea are the major ones. Which ones cause most of the algae in your tank? These same ones. Why can't you just remove these nutrients and eliminate all the algae in...

Is this algae good or bad? I’ve been thinking of removing all the algae growing on the back glass but is there any benefit of leaving it?

Currently have algae build up in the sand bed. Po4 is reading 0.0 but was steadily running at 0.7 prior to this. With the algae growing I don’t think it’s truly 0.0? Running a 400gph return with rotating random flow nozzle and a slw 5 100% on random/else mode. Would appreciate any feedback or...

Blade Hybrid Algae Reactor 16 • Purchased a turf scrubber to deal with a heavily polluted tank with nitrates of 55ppm and heavy hair algae. • Tank is 92g volume so I purchased the 16 version as headroom and the 10 inch might not benefit as well due to the tank being heavily stocked. Over the...

Any advice? Is this Dino’s or Diatoms. Bubbles as you can see suggest Dino’s. 4 month old tank, nitrates at 20. Been siphoning into a filter sock this is it after 2 days.

I have had this white hair looking stuff for as long as I can remember that wont go away. Ive researched multiple times and ive always though it was a bacterial bloom but im really not sure. My alk/dkh is the only thing that is low but ive raised it up to 2.9/8.1 since i need to go slowly but...

So, I had this tank for about 2 years now but 7 months ago I redid my scape with some old and new rock and within 2 weeks brown coloured hair-algae-like filaments started sprouting up. I remove them about every 3 weeks manually by hand and brush the rock. The strands feel silky and come off...

My tank is five months old. I have already been through the diatom phase and now have this brown hairy algae starting to grow on the rock work. It will not blow off with a turkey baster. I have scrubbed it a few times with a soft bristle toothbrush, but it continues to come back. It also does...

I noticed these today… are they clownfish eggs or possible algae (like bubble)

Is this dino if so what type

Good morning everyone! I am having trouble with a caulerpa infestation for a long time now, i tried manual removal every week, out competing the caulerpa with chaeto in the refugium and with more corals. Also 2 years ago i took out all of the rocks and scrubbed them down, took my friend and me...

Hello! I’m curious as to how you guys clean the bottom front portion of your Aquariums glass (near the sand bed) I have this bottom portion of the glass that is always hard to clean… right near the sand bed there’s about a 1-1.5 inch portion of stubborn algae that is always a pain in the *ss… I...

Tank (75gal) has been up for around 5 months now. All Marco Rocks except for one that I brought from my old tank that was 1.5 years old (upgraded after moving). Was wondering what algae this was? Is it really just diatoms still? I have a handful of Astreas and Ceriths that seem to be eating it...