Hello, all!
I've had my 29 gallon tank up and running for almost a year and a half and have always had small algae problems. About six months ago I bought a HOB skimmer and about three months ago I got a GFO reactor running BRS GFO. Phosphate levels are hard to detect with the API kit I have but the levels appear consistently low.
I thought I "beat" GHA quite a while ago but then this stuff appeared (pictured). I'm not sure if it's a different type of GHA or something similar but different. It's not bryopsis. And it doesn't come off with a toothbrush. Every week (when I do a ~20% water change), I manually remove as much of this stuff as I can with the my fingers. I also bought a tweezers about a month ago to try to get in the cracks and crevices as much as possible. When I do water changes, I stir up the sand to try and remove as many nutrients as possible. But this week it grew/spread more than ever.
Any idea what this stuff is and how to defeat it? I don't routinely use any chemicals in my tank but I'm not against using some to help get rid of this.
My only fish are two clowns. I also have six astrea snails (which obviously don't eat this long stuff), and a bunch of little cerith snails. The back and sides are the tank are pretty covered with coralline. I keep the front of the tank clear of it. Only a couple small spots of the rocks have coralline growing.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Cody
I've had my 29 gallon tank up and running for almost a year and a half and have always had small algae problems. About six months ago I bought a HOB skimmer and about three months ago I got a GFO reactor running BRS GFO. Phosphate levels are hard to detect with the API kit I have but the levels appear consistently low.
I thought I "beat" GHA quite a while ago but then this stuff appeared (pictured). I'm not sure if it's a different type of GHA or something similar but different. It's not bryopsis. And it doesn't come off with a toothbrush. Every week (when I do a ~20% water change), I manually remove as much of this stuff as I can with the my fingers. I also bought a tweezers about a month ago to try to get in the cracks and crevices as much as possible. When I do water changes, I stir up the sand to try and remove as many nutrients as possible. But this week it grew/spread more than ever.
Any idea what this stuff is and how to defeat it? I don't routinely use any chemicals in my tank but I'm not against using some to help get rid of this.
My only fish are two clowns. I also have six astrea snails (which obviously don't eat this long stuff), and a bunch of little cerith snails. The back and sides are the tank are pretty covered with coralline. I keep the front of the tank clear of it. Only a couple small spots of the rocks have coralline growing.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Cody