gha

Good evening, This is my first post to this forum so here's to hoping everything goes well! haha I've been wondering why my tank hasn't been doing too good for the past 2-3 months. The corals have basically been retracted and slowly dying off for the previous time stated. my current tank...

I posted a few days ago and didn’t get any helpful responses. Can someone please help me identify this algae? I scrubbed my tank and did a water change Friday evening and now it has all just come back so quickly. Is this GHA or bryopsis? Or is it something else by chance? I want to...

Hello. I need help to get rid of GHA. It's all over my back side of a tank (600 l). Tank is 3 years old and before this, I didn't have any algae issue. All the parameters are stabile for a long time. I have a mix tank, with a lot of SPS. I dose complete Red Sea program, and the only thing that I...

I’ve been battling GHA for a few months now and It’s upsetting because I got it on a frag plug from my LFS. It has only spread a little bit and it pulls off easily so my nitrates are >5ppm and phosphate is around >0.15. I have tried flipping rocks upside down to cover the GHA, manual removal...

I've had my tank running for a few months now. I cycled the tank with microbacters cycling kit, the cycle went great and was done within a couple of weeks. This sort of dust algae appeared about two weeks ago and then some GHA. I added 3 emerald crabs to keep up with the hair algae but now the...

The battle with GHA is turning toward victory. The last coral to be cleaned is a small section of yellow polyps. What’s the best method? Is there a risk of poisoning the tank if I’m too aggressive with it. Sorry if these are rookie questions.

ok so my cheato has been introduced to green hair algae and now it’s growing with my cheato in the back second chamber of my tank my question is besides cleaning off the cheato and loosing pods that and doing harvesting one the gha as well as the cheato is there a way that i can introduce a...

Can anybody help me ID this strain of algae? It is brown/red under my lights and appears more green in the sunlight. It is tougher to remove and slips out of my fingers easily during manual removal, anchors to rock very well and grows on SPS that otherwise appear very happy. Thin and hairy...

If you do have or did have GHA, do you prefer a natural way of removing it with a clean up crew and manual removal by hand and suchion. Or do you prefer to use chemicals?

ive been always beenlow on Nutrients so i feed normally twice a day. Nutrients are not my problem ( i guess) 1 month ago i started to notice some green hair algae on my Tank! The tank is 120 Gallons Im trying with Fluconazole, i started with Fluconazole this past thursday, but i havent seen...

Hey Guys , Im new to this forum and i’m batteling green hair algae for a few monts now . I did a 3 day black out a week ago , it killed Some of the gha but now it is coming back . I do a 20% waterchange every week , i vacum the sandbad , blow of the rocks and clean the sump . In my sump i have...

I was working on my bi-weekly water change and this week I cleaned out all my equipment in my tank. Well, when I was looking in the sump, I noticed quite a bit of either GHA or Bryprosis in the sump of my AIO. Any tips on removing or whatnot and how to keep it from spreading? I'm starting to...

Hi all, I’m on week 3 of cycling my new 40g cube. No fish yet. Things having been going well, but this algae showed up over the last few days. I’m hoping it’s just GHA, but am concerned it’s bryopsis and that I may need to take action to remove ASAP. Any help IDing would be greatly appreciated.

So I have a little patch of GHA growing in between the glass and live rock, and look who’s actually helping instead of eating coral! Haha. Not sure if other people’s pufferfishes do the same?

Help me understand the BALANCING-ACT once you're infested with GHA On one hand, in order to minimize or eliminate GHA you have to STARVE the tank of Nitrates & Phosphates.... this leads to your corals STARVING.....where they just maintaining their size but NEVER grow. On the other hand, if you...

Hi Reefers: I have been battle green hair algae for about 3 months now. I think it may have killed off 2 of my corals - a blue star polyp and a black torch coral. I think it started growing at their base and then just annoyed them too death. Now I still have 4 corals left - toadstool -...

I am having a hair algae outbreak in my 55 gallon mixed reef. Going to do a water change to help but am looking for fish to help with it as well. Whats reef safe and suitable for 55? I have a small sail fin tang which doesn't touch it currently

I thought I’d ID’ed this stuff as Licmophora sp. but now that I’ve let it grow out, I’m not so sure. It’s a brown-ish white looking feather protruding from the live rock in mostly high light intensity areas and emerging from what looks like existing algae. Salinity: 1.025 Temp: 78.6 Ammonia: 0...

After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you keep believing that nitrate and phosphate are the cause of your algae problems. You take the red pill - I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. This image was created by @Fish_Sticks, ©2019, All Rights...

Afternoon reefers... I upgraded my Fluval Evo to a 60 gallon long AIO back in August when we moved to a new house. I battled nutrients and algae (every kind) over the year that the Evo was running, mostly due to the fact I was new to reefing and made ALL of the rookie mistakes, some over and...

I have GHA beginning to overrun my tank. It is not as bad as other infestations I have seen, and I want to get ahead of it. I have tried manually removing it, but that doesn’t really work. You can’t get it all off and it just grows back. After reading about success using Fluconazole, I thought I...

I have been on this forum for awhile. Mainly for to ask questions about reefing b/c I didn’t have a clue and over the course of 10 months, I have learned a lot about this hobby and I like it. Around Oct 21, 2017 I setup a biocube 32 led.(all stock) I wanted 4 clownfish in my tank and some other...

Good morning all... I've been dealing with a GHA problem for a few months. My tank is an IM40. I run a single AI Prime HD (which probably isn't enough?) for 10 hours a day, but 2 hour of ramp up each way so only full strength for 6 hours. I have a filter sock in one overflow and a sponge...

I haven't been thrilled with my tank for a while. My corals don't seem to grow, just limp along for 4-6 months then die. So I decided they weren't getting enough of something. Tried using BRS 2-part. Nope. Tried allowing nutrients in the tank to rise and... guess what? The corals are STILL...

Hi All, I know this topic has been played out a million times, and I feel like I've read 20 different threads and watched 50 different youtube videos about how to get rid of Green Hair Algae (GHA), but since I value the expertise and input of folks on R2R, I thought I would ask for your advice...