Algae ID

[joe0813]

Tank is 3 years old at this current house. Measured my phosphate last night and got .04ppm on a Hanna checker. Flow should be good. I have two mp40s and two wavs on the back glass plus the return. I've had the red cyano that was easy to take care of. But for some reason this kind just won't go away

 

[dwest]

Hmmm. You are doing good things. Hey @saltyfilmfolks do you have any ideas?

 

[Cory]

Looks like a mix of everything but mostly hair alge on tbe sand bed. Cyano feeds off dead hair algae fwiw. It covers it and kills it. Dinos love organics ime. I got rid of mine by dosing silicates for a few weeks to get diamtoms to grow. I also Turkey basted my rocks and moved rocks around only to find a garbadge dump of dirt and poo rotting away. I suspect that caused the dinos. Good luck.

 

[joe0813]

Sigh this is going to be tough.

 

[joe0813]

Have been doing a little bit of research on this crap.... seems like it is Lyngbya Cyano. was looking at pictures and it is exactly what I have in my tank. Next step, kill it

 

[dwest]

Have been doing a little bit of research on this crap.... seems like it is Lyngbya Cyano. was looking at pictures and it is exactly what I have in my tank. Next step, kill it

Just in case you haven’t seen this already:

https://www.reefcleaners.org/nuisance-algae-id-guide

 

[joe0813]

Just in case you haven’t seen this already:

https://www.reefcleaners.org/nuisance-algae-id-guide

thats actually what im looking at right now. trying to decide if I want to risk buying snails and not QTing them. I just got over a 90 day fallow and lost 11 fish do to ich or velvet. (thinking velvet since it happen pretty quick)

 

[dwest]

thats actually what im looking at right now. trying to decide if I want to risk buying snails and not QTing them. I just got over a 90 day fallow and lost 11 fish do to ich or velvet. (thinking velvet since it happen pretty quick)

I believe that reefcleaners does not allow fish in their system so that there is very little risk if ordering from them. All else I would quarantine. In fact, after reading about what you went through, you might want to quarantine from anywhere. Good luck either way.

 

[joe0813]

I believe that reefcleaners does not allow fish in their system so that there is very little risk if ordering from them. All else I would quarantine. In fact, after reading about what you went through, you might want to quarantine from anywhere. Good luck either way.

Thank you, think im going to buy from them and just qt it all in a 30 gallon. Ill just keep sucking it out until they are ready to go in.