Why is this algae still growing?

[NewestToTheReef]

I have been battling this algae for a while now. Its on the glass, frag rack & plugs, and the rocks. The algae on the rocks is in clusters and not super bad. On the glass if left will cover the glass and return nozzle, overflow, & wavemaker. The algae on the frag rack has been scrubbed off and still returns and all soft corals on plugs have been h2o2 dipped and still covered. Im running a DIY ATS that has had decent growth. Changing 25 micron filter socks every 3 days. 100 gallons total changing 1.5 gallons a day tank has been going for a year. What would be the best way to stop this in the display.
Ph-8.0
Salinity-1.026
Temp-77
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
NITRATE-0.0
Phos-0.025
Calcium-485
Alk-8.4
Mag-1320

 

[R0L0]

I have been battling this algae for a while now. Its on the glass, frag rack & plugs, and the rocks. The algae on the rocks is in clusters and not super bad. On the glass if left will cover the glass and return nozzle, overflow, & wavemaker. The algae on the frag rack has been scrubbed off and still returns and all soft corals on plugs have been h2o2 dipped and still covered. Im running a DIY ATS that has had decent growth. Changing 25 micron filter socks every 3 days. 100 gallons total changing 1.5 gallons a day tank has been going for a year. What would be the best way to stop this in the display.
Ph-8.0
Salinity-1.026
Temp-77
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
NITRATE-0.0
Phos-0.025
Calcium-485
Alk-8.4
Mag-1320

What is your current clean up crew

 

[saltyfins]

I have been battling this algae for a while now. Its on the glass, frag rack & plugs, and the rocks. The algae on the rocks is in clusters and not super bad. On the glass if left will cover the glass and return nozzle, overflow, & wavemaker. The algae on the frag rack has been scrubbed off and still returns and all soft corals on plugs have been h2o2 dipped and still covered. Im running a DIY ATS that has had decent growth. Changing 25 micron filter socks every 3 days. 100 gallons total changing 1.5 gallons a day tank has been going for a year. What would be the best way to stop this in the display.
Ph-8.0
Salinity-1.026
Temp-77
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
NITRATE-0.0
Phos-0.025
Calcium-485
Alk-8.4
Mag-1320

it seems like your water, is out of balance. when I had 0 Nitrates...same issue. Now, that's all gone and I run 25 on Nitrates.

 

[Lavey29]

it seems like your water, is out of balance. when I had 0 Nitrates...same issue. Now, that's all gone and I run 25 on Nitrates.

Agreed, when my nitrates and phosphate bottomed out bad things happened in my tank.

 

[Timfish]

What they said. Didn't see any fish but if youhave some feed them more and consider adding more. The organic and inorganic nitrogen from fish are corals preferred forms. Corals also need phosphorus to utilize nitrogen and compete with algae. Microbial processes are also veryimportant and here's some videos you may find informative:

"Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas" This video compliments Rohwer's book of the same title (Paper back is ~$20, Kindle is ~$10), both deal with the conflicting roles of the different types of DOC in reef ecosystems. While there is overlap bewteen his book and the video both have information not covered by the other and together give a broader view of the complex relationships found in reef ecosystems


Changing Seas - Mysterious Microbes


Nitrogen cycling in hte coral holobiont


BActeria and Sponges


Maintenance of Coral Reef Health (refferences at the end)


Optical Feedback Loop in Colorful Coral Bleaching


Richard Ross What's up with phosphate"

 

[nereefpat]

Some of that is just the new tank uglies. Those rocks are new and white, and something has to grow there. As an analogy, If you tilled up your garden and didn't plant anything, weeds would grow there no matter what you did. Eventually coraline will cover the rock.