algae

I have an My friend has an IM 20P Pro AIO. It's been running for 4-ish months. I am having My friend has a diatom problem, been treating it for a few days. Of note, I also have My friend also has an EVO 13.5 that was set up at the same time with the same salt, water, etc. No diatom bloom. 3...

Will no lights kill bubble algae? I’ve tried everything to remove bubble algae and nothing has work so far. What I’ve tried Reflux Emerald crab Foxface And manually removing 95% of it Just for everything to rapidly grow again I have two more plans: 1. If I remove the rocks and scrape off as...

USED for about 1 year. This is the PaxBellum ARID n24 Algae Reactor. This is the best algae reactor money can buy. An absolute beast. Also very visually attractive. I bought this used, but it worked too well! Decided to go a different route as a result. Specifications Recommended Aquarium...

Can you please name and tell about these 3 guys, so if something, i can get them out before they spread

My parameters are all normal -0 Ammonia -0 Trite -0 Trate -1.025 -77.5 degrees -AI Prime HD set to SPS AP+ spectrum -AI Nero3 pump set to random mode between 3% min and 20% max with medium variance, and it blows straight at the back rocks and diffuses it everywhere along with return pump flow...

After cruising the internet looking for solutions to hair algae, I came across the seemingly magic solution known as blennies, and then realized there's dozens of varieties that all seem to be their own fish. As with everything in the hobby, there's no perfect fish, so I imagine there's pros and...

For those who don’t know, I recently got someone else’s established 20gal set up with two clowns and a blenny as a complete beginner. This forum has been a godsend and I appreciate you guys so much. Now for todays question: how do I clean these rocks? Will scrubbing with a toothbrush in clean...

So I used feed my whole tank Rod’s frozen food and then would put a piece of nori on a clip for my foxface, which would be the only thing that showed any interest in it. Now I have a pigfish (type of grunt) and that thing certainly lives up to its name. It will swim up and rip the nori off the...

Curious if this is Cyano mainly because it is a very bright and thick red, doesn’t seem stringy or dark red like Cyano usually looks. The hammer I picked up from somebody local, got scammed on it, and I believe that coral brought whatever tf that is into my tank I’m also confused because I...

I am considering adding a uv sterilizer to my fluval evo. I do not have any major algae outbreaks beyond what is typical such as some green hair algae (tank is 5 months) and normal algae build up on the sides of glass. I also have a BTA and one soft coral which are doing amazing. Should I add...

Hello folks there is some green stuff on my corals and my lice rock. Can you help me recognize this? And aslo does someone know if ot is harmful and how to remove it?

Hello I have a 150 gallon mixed reef mainly LPS tank has been up for 1.5 years had a bad hair algae breakout a few months ago I really knocked it back but looks like it getting replaced by what ever this is Dkh 8.7 Ph 8.1 Cal 402 Mag 1255 Nitrate 4.7 Phosphate. 01

Is this algae? this growing on couple of dropped snail shells as well

I have had this tank for over a year and a half. I recently changed the aqua scape with Marco rock around two weeks ago. I went on vacation for 5 days and it was white before vacation and now it’s filled with some sort of algae. I had hair algae in the past, so I assume it’s partly this. But...

I have this cyano and this green algae. Not sure what to do about it. Nitrates are at 10 and phos at .04. Tank is 7 months old sense I moved it. But been set up for a a year and half. Including before the move. I’ve been dosing nitrate and phos for a while now to keep levels up. Any advice...

Hi everyone, So I’ve had this reef tank setup for slightly over 6 months; I had everything transferred in from my old tank 6 months ago, and for some reason I’ve had wave after wave of this algae come in. It’s a think jelly-like substance that’s formed on the rocks and sand bed. They don’t...

Hey guys, I just switched from a a80 tuna blue to an AI hydra 32hd. I know its overkill for a 20gal aio but figured it would be good as i plan to upgrade in the future. Besides the point the kessil was running at 100% i now have the hydra down to 30%. I have ran it at 75-80% for 1 day and corals...

Please help in identifying my algae. The photos are not the best, but it’s a dark brown almost mat like algae with the occasional bubble. Tank is a year old. Nitrates: 10-20 Phosphates: 0.25 Salinity: 1.026 Temp: 79 Thanks for the help!

Hello everyone, I am hoping to get some help with my Dino issue in my 38 gallon AIO reef tank. It has been about 2 month of having them and about 3 weeks of treating them. So far I have been dosing microbacter 7, microbacter clean, and phyto. Thus far I really do not see any difference in the...

Hello I have the RAIN 4 pole mount waterfall algae scrubber for sale. The pole mount is used, however the DOM and the gem lights (7 in total) are brand new. Asking for $500 shipped.

Hey all, I’ve been facing some cyano recently, seems pretty persistent and grows on my sand and rock. I just finished a flux treatment, and it started to appear in the end of my week 3 of treatment. It doesn’t hold any oxygen bubbles like Dino’s seems to typically, just grows over sand and rock...

We just got back from 10 days away to find this weird, thick white substance in our sump (pics below). It's pure white, thick and is mostly on the display drain tube, and on the bottom of the refugium. There is some in the crevices of the live rock that in the refugium too. It blows off in...

Hi hopefully someone can identify this for me. I’ve never seen anything like this before. I tried to manually remove it but it’s surprisingly VERY hard to scrape off even with a toothbrush. It’s a 6month old system 125 gal with a VERY LIGHT bio load(two clowns, a gramma, softies and hammers)...

Putting together a new system and decided on an algae reactor for nutrient export. Problem is my n24 is likely Overkill for what I'm working with.

Brand New Clear water Algae Scrubber. Can not fit under my tank. Sorry no shipping. Live SF Bay Area