Type of algae

Eve · Jan 3, 2020

Hello guys,
Can someone help me identify this type of algae? I have been trying and I can’t seem to find something similar! And can algae be the reason why my tank looks so cloudy? Parameters are perfect, but algae doesn’t want to go away! My foxface is eating some and the turbo snails too, but not enough! Is there anything I can do to make the water crystal clear :p and make that algae go away. Thank you!!

siggy · Jan 3, 2020

What's your lighting like? Natural sunlight? Just run blues, keep your filter socks clean, and slow way down on the food.
Then there is your water, do you buy or make your water?

Marlon C · Jan 3, 2020

You running any type of nutrient export . Looks like a hair algea

Eve · Jan 3, 2020

siggy said:
What's your lighting like? Natural sunlight? Just run blues, keep your filter socks clean, and slow way down on the food.
Then there is your water, do you buy or make your water?

Just leave the tank with the blue lights all the time? My lights are LED. They run 11 hours a day with 6 of those hours being on the blue lights. I only feed them once every other day. I buy the water.

Eve · Jan 3, 2020

Marlon C said:
You running any type of nutrient export . Looks like a hair algea

No, no nutrient export at all.

jblasi · Jan 3, 2020

How old is your tank? It could just be everyone’s favorite phase of a young tank cycle.

Eve · Jan 3, 2020

jblasi said:
How old is your tank? It could just be everyone’s favorite phase of a young tank cycle.

2 months. It has been cycled for 1 month already. Can still be bacteria bloom even if it already went thru the cycling process?

jblasi · Jan 3, 2020

Eve said:
2 months. It has been cycled for 1 month already. Can still be bacteria bloom even if it already went thru the cycling process?

It is completely normal for new tanks to experience algae outbreaks within the first 1-4 months. As long as you are keeping your feeding schedule strict and not too much, just have a good clean up crew and let the tank do it’s thing. Yes you can reduce your lighting schedule, run some sort of nutrient export among other algae prevention methods. But with your tank being so young, it is completely normal to go through the hair algae stage.