I am stumped

[saltyfins]

I’m going to add some pictures of what I’m dealing with. It’s some sort of hair algae I think but I’m not sure. Doesn’t blow off like Dino’s do, and po4 is 0.08 no3 is 8.5 per Hanna.
If I clean the tank, it’s back within 2 days like this, smells to me… like electricity when I clean it out, water change, scraping, change filters. It’s stuck to rocks like green hair, but it’s brownish, red
Red Sea 56 gallon
Alk:7.5
Ca:400
The 2 others I listed.
Tank is 8 months old, started with live rock from my 350 gallon
Any help would be fantastic

Sorry, I did the best I could figure out, with these goofy lights. Also, I shortened the light cycle to 8 hrs

 

[saltyfins]

Anyone? please?

 

[Reefer Matt]

When I get hair algae, I remove the big parts by hand and add more snails. For byropsis I use flucanozole. Cyano, chemiclean. If you take some of this out of the tank and look at in daylight, it may actually be a different color. Green algae and cyano are often red with blue lights, for example. It may help with your diagnosis. Also, a microscope can help, as many “algae” outbreaks look the same. Seeing the individual cells gives a positive id instead of guessing.

 

[saltyfins]

When I get hair algae, I remove the big parts by hand and add more snails. For byropsis I use flucanozole. Cyano, chemiclean. If you take some of this out of the tank and look at in daylight, it may actually be a different color. Green algae and cyano are often red with blue lights, for example. It may help with your diagnosis. Also, a microscope can help, as many “algae” outbreaks look the same. Seeing the individual cells gives a positive id instead of guessing.

Ok I can do that. I've had dinos before in my large tank, so that's why I am not sure that this is what it is, especially since it's "sticking" to rock/glass...I added some snails and hermits and an emerald, and I havent seen anything that's helping. I am "trying" to not use chemicals, but at this point...I may have to.
so looking at it with a microscope, can you please tell me exactly what it is, that I am looking for, if it's a hair algae? I'm pretty confident with dino's....I think lol

 

[dwest]

My original guess was hair algae covered with cyano and/or dinos. Your corals look good. If your snails are staying alive, I’d do manual removal, add snails, and wait it out.

Like Matt said, a microscope could help. I have a real cheap one that I use to get ID of things every now and then. You can look under the scope, then google what things look like under a scope until you find a match.

I moved about a year ago. My new setup (which was my old setup, just in a new location) has had lots of green cyano. With manual removal, and lots of snails, and lots of frustration, it’s finally slowly receding. But it’s been almost a year.

I haven’t tried chemical eradication either. But I probably should have.

Good luck.

 

[saltyfins]

My original guess was hair algae covered with cyano and/or dinos. Your corals look good. If your snails are staying alive, I’d do manual removal, add snails, and wait it out.

Like Matt said, a microscope could help. I have a real cheap one that I use to get ID of things every now and then. You can look under the scope, then google what things look like under a scope until you find a match.

I moved about a year ago. My new setup (which was my old setup, just in a new location) has had lots of green cyano. With manual removal, and lots of snails, and lots of frustration, it’s finally slowly receding. But it’s been almost a year.

I haven’t tried chemical eradication either. But I probably should have.

Good luck.

Ok thank you. Just a starting point to see what's what. it's odd, I probably should have mentioned...it started with a thick green slime on the glass, that also smelled. I will rip it all apart tomorrow, when I get enough water made. Just so frustrating, as we all know.
I lost my dad suddenly the 28th... and have been traveling 2 hrs to clean up and clean out his house. this started prior, and now I just feel it's out of control. have to get a handle on it.

Thank you both. I really appreciate it

 

[dwest]

Ok thank you. Just a starting point to see what's what. it's odd, I probably should have mentioned...it started with a thick green slime on the glass, that also smelled. I will rip it all apart tomorrow, when I get enough water made. Just so frustrating, as we all know.
I lost my dad suddenly the 28th... and have been traveling 2 hrs to clean up and clean out his house. this started prior, and now I just feel it's out of control. have to get a handle on it.

Thank you both. I really appreciate it

Sorry about your dad.

You could also take this busy period of your life to ”let it ride” and see how the system matures without much interaction. It could work surprisingly well.

Either way. Good luck.

 

[saltyfins]

Sorry about your dad.

You could also take this busy period of your life to ”let it ride” and see how the system matures without much interaction. It could work surprisingly well.

Either way. Good luck.

Thank You. It's been pretty rough.
I considered that, but I have lost 1 coral to this already, it smothered it...and last week when I got home (I spend 2 days there at a time cleaning and sorting) it smelled like electricity in my house. so I went all over trying to figure that out, only to realize it was my tank
which, thank God, for that!

 

[KM Wrasse]

I’m going to add some pictures of what I’m dealing with. It’s some sort of hair algae I think but I’m not sure. Doesn’t blow off like Dino’s do, and po4 is 0.08 no3 is 8.5 per Hanna.
If I clean the tank, it’s back within 2 days like this, smells to me… like electricity when I clean it out, water change, scraping, change filters. It’s stuck to rocks like green hair, but it’s brownish, red
Red Sea 56 gallon
Alk:7.5
Ca:400
The 2 others I listed.
Tank is 8 months old, started with live rock from my 350 gallon
Any help would be fantastic

Sorry, I did the best I could figure out, with these goofy lights. Also, I shortened the light cycle to

I’m going to add some pictures of what I’m dealing with. It’s some sort of hair algae I think but I’m not sure. Doesn’t blow off like Dino’s do, and po4 is 0.08 no3 is 8.5 per Hanna.
If I clean the tank, it’s back within 2 days like this, smells to me… like electricity when I clean it out, water change, scraping, change filters. It’s stuck to rocks like green hair, but it’s brownish, red
Red Sea 56 gallon
Alk:7.5
Ca:400
The 2 others I listed.
Tank is 8 months old, started with live rock from my 350 gallon
Any help would be fantastic

Sorry, I did the best I could figure out, with these goofy lights. Also, I shortened the light cycle to 8 hrs

I beat algae and any other nasty stuff with bacteria. I dose heavily and a variety. I set up a 235g in Jan and it got some stuff that sort of looked like Dino’s but also like algae. I dosed PNS bio and PNS deep cycle, seachem pristine, seachem stability and Aqua forest life source which is live mud from the ocean. It supplies bio diversity. The problem disappeared in about 7-10 days . Make sure your nitrate and phosphate don’t go to 0
Good luck