Algae & Lighting
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CanuckReefer
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Looks almost like a blue/green cyano from what I can tell. When you say it ramps up it's spread with lights on and dies off a bit in darkness also points that direction imo. Phosphates are climbing which is another feeder for it....Not sure what type of algae is on the rocks, when the light goes on in the morning the rocks are clean I do have clean up snails it's killing my spa corals and lpa
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Emerald Crab, and Trochus snails to try and combat it. Maybe a blackout for a day or two as well.
Curious what others think so will hang up and listen....
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hyeclass
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Tank is running almost 2yrs since 2019 September, I am going to test po see where lvl it's reading
CanuckReefer
Simple...Salt, Water, LR, Lighting and Flow.
I had a pretty brief but invasive brown cyano outbreak about 3 or 4 months back. First time in 20+ years .... I pinned it down to my phos rising, nitrates next to nil but still rising slightly, and a recent start of feeding frozen cyclops on broadcast. Stopped feeding it and my phos numbers dropped gradually....
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hyeclass
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I just tested po
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hyeclass
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I just tested my phosphate 0.07 which is good, am I missing something
CanuckReefer
Simple...Salt, Water, LR, Lighting and Flow.
Not climbing anymore which is good. Mine was up around 0.09 and now down at .03. Are you feeding anything differently over last month or 2? Water changes same? Bringing in @Rmckoy what do you think? I haven't seen blue/green cyano in my own setup. Is that what looks like to you? Or something else...parameters don't look too out of whack, but there was a slight spike.
Rmckoy
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From the normal green colour that covers the rocks I’ve never had anything quite like this .
I used to get similar to this years ago . Before keeping hermits , emerald crabs and foxface to keep things clean .
Honestly .... I have no idea
CanuckReefer
Simple...Salt, Water, LR, Lighting and Flow.
Going to bump this and ask @ReefSquad what they think....you need to find a remedy to it soon, don't want to be losing corals....
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hyeclass
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Thank you I lost 14 sps frags I tried scraping the Algae from the back of the glass and blowing I made it worse when I blow I need to get more clean up crew I think
CanuckReefer
Simple...Salt, Water, LR, Lighting and Flow.
Let's escalate to @Daniel@R2R on it....he will throw it out to the masses....and knows his stuff. Also @CMMorgan , @ca1ore ,and @fishguy242 trustworthy and they will escalate it one of them.
CanuckReefer
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Hang in....the cavalry is coming....
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hi on algae?? see fall in alk ,and ph 7.5..?? @Eagle_Steve ?
CanuckReefer
Simple...Salt, Water, LR, Lighting and Flow.
Youch didn't see that as I'm used to flying right by that! Great find lol. Time for some buffers anyway.....let's bring that up just a bit....
CMMorgan
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Looking at APEX, PH is on the low side, nitrate and phos look to be climbing (although within norms - but should be watched), Alk looks to be dropping.
Describe this algae.... is it slimy? If it is like snot, then it could be a version of cyano. Do you have any bubbles?
There are a couple ways that you can go.... emeralds are good CUC. You can try going dark for about 4 days and see if that wipes it out. What do you have in the fuge? Anything macro? Maybe introduce something to outcompete??
There are chemicals like chemiclean. I'd go there last.
Describe this algae.... is it slimy? If it is like snot, then it could be a version of cyano. Do you have any bubbles?
There are a couple ways that you can go.... emeralds are good CUC. You can try going dark for about 4 days and see if that wipes it out. What do you have in the fuge? Anything macro? Maybe introduce something to outcompete??
There are chemicals like chemiclean. I'd go there last.
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hyeclass
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good day, i am using Radion G5s 2 of them
Crashjack
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If it were me, I would add Chemiclean (per instructions). Chemiclean is usually pretty reef safe and in my experience, cyano not only disappears, it stays gone. I'm not saying you will never have cyano again, but for me it goes away until some other problem causes a breakout.
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hyeclass
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Algae description: dark brown it is slimy (when i blade it out from the glass - some part of the rock there are bubbles on the algae - it's not a bubble algae maybe air i can blow it upon blowing the Algae it comes out of the rock look dark brown), on my fugum yes i am running a bubbler - should i turn it off? yes i have refugium also i am running a calcium reactor - i'll get some emerald crabs today, 3 of them, i bought some snails the another day, never used Chemiclean
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hyeclass
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they have different type of Chemiclean - any idea which one i should get?
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