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It sounds like it may be dinos and I think I see bubbles on it. Does it sort of resemble snot?
Only on the rocks, it does not spread across the sandWelcome to Reef2Reef.
Is this just growing on the rock or does it spread across the sand (presuming you are cleaning if off the sand?)
Looked at it abit more, it might be "cotton candy algee", any advice how to eliminate ?Looks to be cotton candy algae.
If your sand had lots of nutrients it would. Having this stuff only growing out of the rocks suggests your rock is acting as a nutrient sink. (It looks like there is caulurpa sprouting from off of it.Only on the rocks, it does not spread across the sand
Take it out. Remove what you can and then spot treat.Can I take each rock outside and treat with peroxide or you recomend dosing peroxide into the tank ?
You still have algae after a year because you disregard answers.Will it kill the coral ? I am using an algee scrubber (the algee scrubber is new and it reduced the growth but did not eliminate the algee) & skimmer
Thanks , will try and update upon progress.Pour around the corals be exacting. Use dropper or a small mist bottle
pre scrape with a knife first, to clear off all the mass you can get, clear the way like a dentist exacting around teeth so the peroxide has less target mass to work on, leaving only holdfasts in the rock for it to work on. If you work out side the tank and fix the rocks, we can do a sandbed clean to catch up bits and pieces and then assemble back a clean skip cycle tank.
Thanks, I have a lot of work to do, will update on the progressThe red turf algae battle
I'm curious, how old is your tank? It's brand New, but the rocks are from my former 1.5 year old tankwww.reef2reef.com
theres a similar job, we always have a comparative work thread before the run to see. More than one way is used here
one person was pulling the rock and putting baking soda paste and one used aiptasia x to burn it off
Peroxide after detail knife tip precision lift out scraping is best pls take pics we want to use them in our peroxide thread.
red algae has this effect with peroxide: takes about nine days to kill off
gha is dead within 48 hours usually but this tough algae is better armed...it takes a little over a week for areas contacted by peroxide to turn pink and die off
so when you’ve detail scraped nicely and rinsed off the mass, some red pigmentation might remain. That will bleach out in a little over a week after peroxide sits on it in the air a few mins. Clean what you can, contact burn the rest it will work great.