So it’s been well over a year of dealing with this white hair type of algae that gets stuck on everything in my tank. This is what it was when it started.
It was so stuck on to the rock that when I pulled on it, some of it tore off but most of it was still stuck to the rock.
It’s photosynthetic because I turned off the lights and it died out and eventually turned into this brown goopy stuff which was not nearly as stuck to the rock as the white. Also stopped dosing alk.
I left the tank on auto pilot a while ago because I had a lot going on but now I’m trying to get this tank going. I took one rock out and cleaned it completely and in a week or two the white stuff slowly started growing back.
Oddly enough my tank uses of alkalinity and been having to dose to keep it at 9. No corals and very little coralline.
I just want to figure out what’s going on and if there are any proactive measures I can take other than waiting it out and constantly cleaning this stuff. (It’s very hard to clean without a blackout period) I also don’t know if this is fungi or chrysophytes.
It was so stuck on to the rock that when I pulled on it, some of it tore off but most of it was still stuck to the rock.
It’s photosynthetic because I turned off the lights and it died out and eventually turned into this brown goopy stuff which was not nearly as stuck to the rock as the white. Also stopped dosing alk.
I left the tank on auto pilot a while ago because I had a lot going on but now I’m trying to get this tank going. I took one rock out and cleaned it completely and in a week or two the white stuff slowly started growing back.
Oddly enough my tank uses of alkalinity and been having to dose to keep it at 9. No corals and very little coralline.
I just want to figure out what’s going on and if there are any proactive measures I can take other than waiting it out and constantly cleaning this stuff. (It’s very hard to clean without a blackout period) I also don’t know if this is fungi or chrysophytes.