For the last month or so i've been battling what I thought was hair algae until today. I cut my feedings in half, began running GFO and started skimming a bit wetter. I can clean the tank of this stuff and it's everywhere again in 2 - 3 days. Glass can be cleaned with a MagFloat but 48 hours later you can barely see through because of the brown stuff on the glass. My hermits don't appear to touch it but Trochus snails are mowing it down on the rock. Could this be chrysophytes? It looks like hair algae and even anchors like it, but it's golden/brown and looks like this under the microscope:
I don't know what else to do. I do weekly 25% WCs with Reef Crystals, all the filters on my RODI were recently changed. I have 160 TDS in and 0 TDS out. Tank is a BioCube 29 with an InTank media basket running floss, GFO and ROX carbon. Floss gets changed every 3 days. Tunze 9001 skimmer. I feed a very small amount of LRS nano reef frenzy once a day. Livestock is 1x Clownfish, 1x Bangaii, 1x Cleaner shrimp. Tank is 6 months old. My parameters are:
Salinity 1.026
Temp 79
pH 7.8
Cal 475
Alk 8.4
Mag 1440
PO4 zero
NO3 zero
What am I fighting here?
I don't know what else to do. I do weekly 25% WCs with Reef Crystals, all the filters on my RODI were recently changed. I have 160 TDS in and 0 TDS out. Tank is a BioCube 29 with an InTank media basket running floss, GFO and ROX carbon. Floss gets changed every 3 days. Tunze 9001 skimmer. I feed a very small amount of LRS nano reef frenzy once a day. Livestock is 1x Clownfish, 1x Bangaii, 1x Cleaner shrimp. Tank is 6 months old. My parameters are:
Salinity 1.026
Temp 79
pH 7.8
Cal 475
Alk 8.4
Mag 1440
PO4 zero
NO3 zero
What am I fighting here?