Algae Identification: Maybe Dino and GHA?

[OsiViper]

Recently had a huge algae bloom in my tank. Tank is about 3 months old. Need a little help with identification so I know how to proceed.

It almost seems to be 3 types. There is a brown slimy stuff on the rocks, a white stringy slimy stuff that has some streamers 2+ inches long in the tank, and a green one that is fairly short, but very firm.

 

[GoVols]

Seems like you have hit the ugly stage.

I'd bring in a cleanup crew.

The white sounds like bacteria, If you use any aerosols they can kick in white bacteria slime. Just tossing that on the table.

 

[OsiViper]

Seems like you have hit the ugly stage.

I'd bring in a cleanup crew.

The white sounds like bacteria, If you use any aerosols they can kick in white bacteria slime. Just tossing that on the table.

Have a snail cleanup crew, no crabs. I already had a diatom outbreak right after cycle, and it went away about a week later. The brown stuff seems to have air bubbles on it. Any idea what the green stuff was? Looks like a weird hair algae.

Cannot seem to get Chaeto to grow in my sump. When with higher nutrients it just turns white and dies off. I have done weekly regular water changes and still have nutrients that are really high. Nitrate is 50-80ppm, even doing 2 large water changes. Have added NO3O4-X to my doser and nitrates are starting to come down. I'm guessing the slime might be from the carbon dosing.

 

[GoVols]

Have a snail cleanup crew, no crabs. I already had a diatom outbreak right after cycle, and it went away about a week later. The brown stuff seems to have air bubbles on it. Any idea what the green stuff was? Looks like a weird hair algae.

Cannot seem to get Chaeto to grow in my sump. When with higher nutrients it just turns white and dies off. I have done weekly regular water changes and still have nutrients that are really high. Nitrate is 50-80ppm, even doing 2 large water changes. Have added NO3O4-X to my doser and nitrates are starting to come down. I'm guessing the slime might be from the carbon dosing.

Yeah,
Carbon dosing can feed good and bad bacterias, I think Randy Homles-Farley used vinegar for carbon dosing because it's less prone to kick in funky bacterias.

Hard to tell by your pictures, but look up Terf algae to rule that out for the green algae. Otherwise its most likely GHA.

If your brown is stringy (spider webbing) with a lot of air bubbles then it could be dinos.

I'd bring in a bunch of Red-legged Hermit crabs and a small Royal Urchin.
If you bring in a small Royal Urchin, be sure to acclimate it to your higher nutrient levels.

 

[taricha]

Tank is about 3 months old. Need a little help with identification so I know how to proceed.

Great Microscope shots. I see diatoms and the structure of that algae looks like probably a normal green algae similar to ulva or enteromorpha
example pic

(early tank uglies, and nothing I would worry about.)