What algae is this?

[Exotrezy]

I have diatoms right now which showed up about 2 weeks ago. Recently started getting these other algae’s such as the green and pink/purple ones. At first I thought maybe coralline because of the different colorations but I don’t think it is. Maybe cyano? They are not stringy or hair, and they come off with scraping with tweezers

 

[shakacuz]

cyano.

 

[Exotrezy]

cyano.

Anything I should do?

 

[shakacuz]

Anything I should do?

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/extreme-water-clarity-and-cyano-eradication-made-easy.916381/
for the bits you are able to scrape off with tweezers, it is likely it could be coralline algae. for the green/red mats of "fluff" with some air bubbles, its cyano.

 

[Exotrezy]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/extreme-water-clarity-and-cyano-eradication-made-easy.916381/
for the bits you are able to scrape off with tweezers, it is likely it could be coralline algae. for the green/red mats of "fluff" with some air bubbles, its cyano.

I have some chemiclean, should I add that? If so how much and how?

 

[Exotrezy]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/extreme-water-clarity-and-cyano-eradication-made-easy.916381/
for the bits you are able to scrape off with tweezers, it is likely it could be coralline algae. for the green/red mats of "fluff" with some air bubbles, its cyano.

Are you sure it’s cyano? Isn’t some coralline also green sometimes? Also which red mats are you talking about? Could you maybe screenshot and circle the part?

 

[Exotrezy]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/extreme-water-clarity-and-cyano-eradication-made-easy.916381/
for the bits you are able to scrape off with tweezers, it is likely it could be coralline algae. for the green/red mats of "fluff" with some air bubbles, its cyano.

Hey, so I just used some tweezers to scrape the algae. The green one isn't really a hairy or stringy type and just kind of gets scraped off, kind of hard to scrape it off I think because of the rock shape. Also I don't know where you are seeing air bubbles on that one because I don't see any, maybe you might be confusing it with the little white dots which are actually just really small bits of rock since my rock is white and it probably got there from me scraping rock. As for the purple/pink algae, the ones near the green algae do come off with a string like when I scrape it, it just kind of hang like a string. Pretty sure that is coralline. And for the green algae, I think it might just be the basic green algae that people see.

 

[BeanAnimal]

How old is the tank? Various algaes, diatoms, cyano, etc. are all normal parts of a system as it matures.

All kinds of stuff is going to come and go, just relax - don't start dumping a bunch of crap in the tank to "fix" it -- you will likely create more problems that require more stuff to "fix".

 

[Exotrezy]

How old is the tank? Various algaes, diatoms, cyano, etc. are all normal parts of a system as it matures.

All kinds of stuff is going to come and go, just relax - don't start dumping a bunch of crap in the tank to "fix" it -- you will likely create more problems that require more stuff to "fix".

Tank was started middle of october. I had to do a fallow between november first and end of december because of brook. I have had diatoms for about 2-3 weeks and they still haven't went away on their own. I know that these things are normal, just don't want anything potentially killing my coral or anemones.

 

[Exotrezy]

How old is the tank? Various algaes, diatoms, cyano, etc. are all normal parts of a system as it matures.

All kinds of stuff is going to come and go, just relax - don't start dumping a bunch of crap in the tank to "fix" it -- you will likely create more problems that require more stuff to "fix".

So just leave it alone? I will be doing a water change this weekend as I need to do one as I haven't in 2 weeks.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Could you check mine and let me know what type of algae it is?
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/what-algae-is-this.1093444/#post-13241916

Nuisance algae is a weak point of mine at the moment, but I'm inclined to agree that most of it looks like cyano to me.

 

[Exotrezy]

Nuisance algae is a weak point of mine at the moment, but I'm inclined to agree that most of it looks like cyano to me.

Ok thanks

 

[Exotrezy]

Nuisance algae is a weak point of mine at the moment, but I'm inclined to agree that most of it looks like cyano to me.

Also any ideas on how to counter vermetid snails? There are like thin tubes that are hollow or something as they are easy to break off and then I have some red ones that are hard and those are on the corals. I took most of them off with some tweezers by cracking them. Should I just take the rocks out tommorrow and check everywhere for any, and if I see some I should just remove and then add the rocks back in after a little bit?

 

[Exotrezy]

How old is the tank? Various algaes, diatoms, cyano, etc. are all normal parts of a system as it matures.

All kinds of stuff is going to come and go, just relax - don't start dumping a bunch of crap in the tank to "fix" it -- you will likely create more problems that require more stuff to "fix".

Also any ideas on how to counter vermetid snails? There are like thin tubes that are hollow or something as they are easy to break off and then I have some red ones that are hard and those are on the corals. I took most of them off with some tweezers by cracking them. Should I just take the rocks out tommorrow and check everywhere for any, and if I see some I should just remove and then add the rocks back in after a little bit?

 

[Exotrezy]

Also the vermetids could just be coming because they got some food to eat as I haven't ran my skimmer for a week because of my ruby reef rally pro and my filter doesn't have carbon in it right now.

 

[insanelogic]

I have diatoms right now which showed up about 2 weeks ago. Recently started getting these other algae’s such as the green and pink/purple ones. At first I thought maybe coralline because of the different colorations but I don’t think it is. Maybe cyano? They are not stringy or hair, and they come off with scraping with tweezers

I just went though something similar and it turned out to be Cyano. My parameters are in spec and everything seems good, but it kept growing. I ended up using chemi-clean to remove it, along with microbacter7. If your parameters are way off or if the tank is new, doing this may mask the issues at hand, but if you only need a head start, chemi-clean worked best for me.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Also any ideas on how to counter vermetid snails? There are like thin tubes that are hollow or something as they are easy to break off and then I have some red ones that are hard and those are on the corals. I took most of them off with some tweezers by cracking them. Should I just take the rocks out tommorrow and check everywhere for any, and if I see some I should just remove and then add the rocks back in after a little bit?

Any pics of the tubes?

For removal ideas:

manual removal, bumblebee snails, glue, injecting vinegar/lemon juice/kalkpaste, coral snow, etc. If you only have a few, then manual removal should work fine, otherwise I’d say to look at some of the methods used on the forum here and try out the ones you think would work best.

I’ve heard mixed reviews on the super glue method (but, most methods get mixed reviews with Vermetids).

For the vermetids, some people report success with emerald crabs, bumblebee snails, coral snow (there's a DIY recipe on here somewhere for this that's super cheap - I believe it's made from chalk), etc.

Probably the best results I’ve seen with small numbers of vermetids come from crushing the tube and setting a predator (like an emerald crab or a bumblebee snail) by the crushed tube immediately after.

The following may be helpful too:

Some people swear by bumblebee snails for vermetids, others say they’re useless, and still more say they’re effective but only over long periods of time (like 8+ months long). It may depend of the species of vermetid you have.

 

[Exotrezy]

Any pics of the tubes?

For removal ideas:

The brown ones are the ones that aren’t very hard and just come off it I pull them off. The red ones are hard so I am pretty sure the red are vermetids. I have a removed most of the brown ones already so sorry if the picture is kind of bad.

 

[Exotrezy]

I just went though something similar and it turned out to be Cyano. My parameters are in spec and everything seems good, but it kept growing. I ended up using chemi-clean to remove it, along with microbacter7. If your parameters are way off or if the tank is new, doing this may mask the issues at hand, but if you only need a head start, chemi-clean worked best for me.

Tank is on the newer side I guess, it’s about 4 months old and I did a fallow for 1 and a half months so it’s not too old. Should I use anything yet or just wait? If I wait it would be more natural or I can use chemiclean to take it out right now. What should I do?

 

[BeanAnimal]

I don't take issue with vermetid snails. On the rare occasion that one bothers a coral, I will kill it. Otherwise, they are just part of a healthy ecosystem. Some people will tell you that they are a scourge -- my tank is over 20 years old, and I don't share that opinion.

I would try to relax a bit more and enjoy watching the tank mature.