Algae help suggestions

[ryewalk84]

Suggestions on what to do? I have been battling this algae for a year. Not super unsightly but I want to get rid of it. I’ve used hydrogen peroxide for about half a year off and on but never fully gets rid of it. Have chaeto that is growing super well in the sump. Phosphate is rested with Hanna phosphate checker and reads either 0 - .03. Nitrate checked with ATI- looks like 0 always but never know for sure with it. So I’d say 10 max.

Pretty sure it’s the Dino that is toxic. Can’t seem to keep snails alive. Will find them upside down and slightly squirming on the sand bed. Will flip them over and that is typically where they eventually die. Had the same thing with a yellow tang. Super healthy and swimming around and eating and woke up the next day to it dead. Been reading about vibrant but hesitant to get it.

What should be my next step everyone?

 

[cracker]

I have the same issue with similar reading. Chaeto growing well & everything. I'm following to see & learn. I have been scrubbing a lit of rock lately. Also added a lot of snails ! As for your snails croaking. How do You acclimate? I literally slow drip my new snails for a couple hours. I have a much better survival rate.

 

[Tahoe61]

Sure does not look like any Dino I have ever seen.
I would try a different snail type, like Turbo, Cerith or maybe even an Abalone or Urchin, anything is possible but that does not look like dino to me and I am inclined to think there is an alternative cause to the snail and fish deaths.
To start with I would manually remove it off the walls and blow off the detritus from the rock work, let it settle with pumps off for a short period of time, siphon out the algae while doing a water change, clean all mechanical filtration afterwards and rinse and repeat as needed.

 

[ryewalk84]

I have the same issue with similar reading. Chaeto growing well & everything. I'm following to see & learn. I have been scrubbing a lit of rock lately. Also added a lot of snails ! As for your snails croaking. How do You acclimate? I literally slow drip my new snails for a couple hours. I have a much better survival rate.

Snails were established. Got a rock of mushrooms and I’ve had the algae problems since then.

 

[ryewalk84]

Sure does not look like any Dino I have ever seen.
I would try a different snail type, like Turbo, Cerith or maybe even an Abalone or Urchin, anything is possible but that does not look like dino to me and I am inclined to think there is an alternative cause to the snail and fish deaths.
To start with I would manually remove it off the walls and blow off the detritus from the rock work, let it settle with pumps off for a short period of time, siphon out the algae while doing a water change, clean all mechanical filtration afterwards and rinse and repeat as needed.

What type do you think it is? I thought Dino due to the fact that snails started dying off after the first algae outbreak. I started doing research and kept getting hits on toxic algae.

 

[crayon]

Look up fluconazole. There are threads....I have used it and not lost anything except algae.