I always thought green on rocks is a completely normal part of your dry rocks maturing and becoming "live" and eventually it gets taken over by coralline. All my rocks are green and I am now seeing the purple splotches showing up all over .
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YepI always thought green on rocks is a completely normal part of your dry rocks maturing and becoming "live" and eventually it gets taken over by coralline. All my rocks are green and I am now seeing the purple splotches showing up all over .
Cut back (or eliminate) the phyto.Hey reefers!
90 day old tank here. Need help sorting out how to get rid of green algae, especially all over my rock. Sand is clear.
it’s 143 gallon. Here is my chemistry:
- Salinity 34.9
- pH 8.05
- Alk 8.07
- CA 450
- Mag 1430
- No3 16
- PO4 .37 - have been battling this for a while. GFO hasn’t don’t much. Now using phosphat-e. Have used dr Tim’s waste-away too with much success.
I dose 60 mL phyto (algaebarn oceanmagick) daily and algaebarn copepods twice a month. That really helped with dinos and diatoms.
thank you
Excellent post. The greatest product you can use is your own patience and elbow grease.Algae isn't a real concern for me here - what concerns me is that this tank is 90 days old and I don't see a spec of coralline, sponge, or any of the other normal surface succession organisms that should be there. This looks like a 30 day old tank to me. You've added a lot of stony corals, so these things have been introduced. They should be reproducing, and they're not. And as long as they aren't reproducing, you're going to have algae.
Nothing you do chemically to eliminate algae right now is going to be good for the tank overall - as it's going to be hostile to the things you want to grow - because they have similar requirements.
What do you have for flow? How long have the lights been on? (If you waited 60 days to turn on your lights, its a 30 day old tank). Can you list out everything you're adding to the tank?
Thank you for your feedback but you are wrong.Algae isn't a real concern for me here - what concerns me is that this tank is 90 days old and I don't see a spec of coralline, sponge, or any of the other normal surface succession organisms that should be there. This looks like a 30 day old tank to me. You've added a lot of stony corals, so these things have been introduced. They should be reproducing, and they're not. And as long as they aren't reproducing, you're going to have algae.
Nothing you do chemically to eliminate algae right now is going to be good for the tank overall - as it's going to be hostile to the things you want to grow - because they have similar requirements.
What do you have for flow? How long have the lights been on? (If you waited 60 days to turn on your lights, its a 30 day old tank). Can you list out everything you're adding to the tank?
Then you're going to have algae until your rock surface is covered in coral. You will not have uncolonized surface areas in a highly lit reef tank. There's too much energy available for stuff to not grow there.Thank you for your feedback but you are wrong.
First of all, I don’t want coralline algae because I think it’s ugly.
Second, while you may analyze the look of the tank based on a picture, according AquaBiomics, my diversity was in the 42% percentile, my balance was that of a “mature reef tank” and my community composition was “very similar to a typical reef tank.”
Second, while you may analyze the look of the tank based on a picture, according AquaBiomics, my diversity was in the 42% percentile, my balance was that of a “mature reef tank” and my community composition was “very similar to a typical reef tank.”