Coralline Algae

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

The coralline algae is developing on the flow pumps and glass in circles of what looks like a pink fungus. Doesn’t move. Looks like it’s encrusting. The white snot tho is a different color and grows really quickly.

Again, we need pics

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Any recommendations? They said to dose Bacter7 daily, but the effect is negligible.

And who are "they"?? Lol

 

[AdamG280]

Again, we need pics

Coralline algae in first two pics. Snot in third.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Looks a bit like dinos... what's your phosphate level?

 

[AdamG280]

< 0.25

 

[AdamG280]

Looks a bit like dinos... what's your phosphate level?

Google seems to indicate Alcaligenes faecalis, but I dunno. It consistently reforms after I suck it up.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Google seems to indicate Alcaligenes faecalis, but I dunno. It consistently reforms after I suck it up.

 

[AdamG280]

Anybody know why my KH is going up even though I’m not carbon dosing? Could this be a detritus issue?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

What does carbon dosing have to do with alkalinity??

Could the KH change be test error?

 

[AdamG280]

What does carbon dosing have to do with alkalinity??

Could the KH change be test error?

Reef carbonate doesn’t raise KH? And no, since this algae started the KH just goes up by itself, progressively.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Reef carbonate doesn’t raise KH? And no, since this algae started the KH just goes up by itself, progressively.

Reef carbonate is not "carbon dosing." It's "carbonate dosing".

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/the-ways-alkalinity-can-accumulate-in-a-reef-tank.902/