Algae id

[Kfactor]

Hi all I just thought I would ask what type of algae this is . The tank is around 5 months old so Fairly new my nitrates are 5.7 and po4 is 0 i have been dosing 3 ml po4 daily to help out in my 125g total water volume tank. I’m running 1 250w metal halide and 2 kessil a 360xs over the tank but the kessil are set really low on Intensity . I only have 2 acros right now in the tank and 4 small fish . I started the md with dry rock and the sump has 15lbs of live rock i was thinking the tank is just going though it’s stages but just want to make sure

 

[blaxsun]

What do you have in your system for cleanup crew?

 

[kingjames_dc5]

Does it look like there’s tiny bubbles trapped inside The algae?

 

[Kfactor]

What do you have in your system for cleanup crew?

I just put my urchin in today from my qt tank and have 2 turbos 3 nassaruis snails /1 fighting conch/ and maybe 2 other snails right now

 

[blaxsun]

I just put my urchin in today from my qt tank and have 2 turbos 3 nassaruis snails /1 fighting conch/ and maybe 2 other snails right now

They should make a dent in it if they stay off the glass!

 

[Kfactor]

Does it look like there’s tiny bubbles trapped inside The algae?

Now that you say it there are some really tiny ones in some of it

 

[Kfactor]

They should make a dent in it if they stay off the glass!

Lol that’s the thing most stay on the glass I was just worried it’s somthing bad

 

[kingjames_dc5]

Now that you say it there are some really tiny ones in some of it

It’s hard to see but I have 2 guesses for you Calothrix or dinoflagellates. Calothrix is blue green species of cyano often appear as a light slimy hairy/fuzzy very similar appearance do dinoflagellates.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Callothrix and will require some patience and scrubbing. Using a soft toothbrush, take the rock out of tank and scrub with hydrogen peroxide. Agitate it in a bucket after cleaning in tank water to loosen loose particles and return rock to tank. This stuff is similar to dinos and often triggered by elevated nitrate and phosphate.
After scrubbing clean, add some cleaner crew such as Chitons, Nerite snails, margarita snails, cerith snails and nerite snails. Also add a pouch of chemiPure Blue which will keep NO3 and PO4 in check

 

[Kfactor]

This is another pic sorry for the Quality

 

[Kfactor]

Callothrix and will require some patience and scrubbing. Using a soft toothbrush, take the rock out of tank and scrub with hydrogen peroxide. Agitate it in a bucket after cleaning in tank water to loosen loose particles and return rock to tank. This stuff is similar to dinos and often triggered by elevated nitrate and phosphate.
After scrubbing clean, add some cleaner crew such as Chitons, Nerite snails, margarita snails, cerith snails and nerite snails. Also add a pouch of chemiPure Blue which will keep NO3 and PO4 in check

Thanks for the advice I did this today when I did a water change . I hope this will help with the battle with it