brown hair algae

  1. U

    Brown Hair algae

    I have been dealing with this brown hair algae for the longest time. I've even restarted my whole tank and its back! I currently have a small court jester goby, tuxedo urchin, skunk cleaner shrimp and about ten turbo snails and it seems there is no progress. I do weekly 15% water changes and...
  2. vaguelyreeflike

    Frag tank full of gross-ness, help!

    So our frag tank is just filled with detritus, algae, hydroids etc. We failed to dip the original frags which was the downfall, new ones will be dipped in reef primer and lugols, but how can we clear the tank of all of this? It looks disgusting struggling with phosphates, calcium and alk...
  3. SchoolEcosystem

    Long Island Sound Tank

    I introduced three new sea urchins to my long island sound tank yesterday. Floated them as I thought was appropriate amount of time (about 4 hours) I also added a couple mummychugs and two green crabs. Upon returning to my tank this morning all three urchins are flipped on their "backs" with...
  4. Y

    Need help dealing with brown algae outbreak

    Hello everyone. I am currently dealing with a problem with my 48 gallon tank. The tank has been cycled for about 3 months now. I have 3 clownfish, 1 anemone, 1 mushroom and 2 acros....Since last week, my tank has been filling up with brown algae and i cannot get it to stop overtaking the tank...
  5. S

    Help identify algae please.

    I have never come across this algae before. It looks sorta like dinos or diatoms. It is a brown hair that turns into a brownish white snot. It comes back fast after manual cleaning and leaves white fibers behind after I scrub. It grows on the rocks and glas and sand... but not on the corals...
  6. hyeclass

    Brown hair on the rocks

    I have brown hair on my rocks and I am not sure how to clean them VIBRANT REEF AQUARIUM CLEANER 16OZ Is it worth it? I am running fuge also
  7. R

    Brown hair algae?????

    Restarted my 125 gallon tank after a 2 year break. Added new AI Hydra 64 lights and 40 lbs of CarriSea “Live” Special sand. Tank cycled and shortly after saw brown algae (diatom) on glass and rocks. Now I’m see this brown hair like algae and I need help ID-ing. I don’t see this in my sump...
  8. ThunderGoose

    Brown (?) hairy algae

    I've been battling brown colored hairy algae in my tank for a few months now. I need any advice I can get. My tank is a RSR250, originally set up in December 2016 (so 16 months old now). I have 2 Radion XR4 HD lights with a personalized schedule (mostly the coral lab LPS setting but added white...
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