Algae on GSP

[asome_one]

As the title says theres this little annoying spot of...I think hair algae...on my gsp frag. It still opens up daily except for the area where the algae is. I take a qtip and clean the algae off but it always comes back in the same place. Hair algae is not present anywhere else in the main tank. The frag has been in the tank a couple months but has receeded a slight bit since purchase. I assume this is just due to the placement in regards to the light source and that it'll spring back eventually.
its a 18 gallon total water volume. I feed the tank once a week with a small bit of reef roids.
I do run carbon in a reactor to polish the water.
Levels are always near negligible.

 

[Flippers4pups]

As the title says theres this little annoying spot of...I think hair algae...on my gsp frag. It still opens up daily except for the area where the algae is. I take a qtip and clean the algae off but it always comes back in the same place. Hair algae is not present anywhere else in the main tank. The frag has been in the tank a couple months but has receeded a slight bit since purchase. I assume this is just due to the placement in regards to the light source and that it'll spring back eventually.
its a 18 gallon total water volume. I feed the tank once a week with a small bit of reef roids.
I do run carbon in a reactor to polish the water.
Levels are always near negligible.

Soft brush to remove it.

 

[asome_one]

Soft brush to remove it.

I do remove it, the question was how to prevent it from returning. I take it out of the tank and wipe it off. It still returns within a week, in the same spot.

 

[Erick Armanii]

BRS had a video about coral care and if you dip the coral in some coralrx or hydrogen peroxide it would help with GSP closing up

 

[Mav88]

I had the same problem i redipped the frag in coral rx and wiped off the algae. Hasn't come back.

 

[Malifry97]

Maybe some peroxide...take a medicine syringe, take the coral out of the water and squirt the peroxide on it. Wait about 10-15 seconds, rinse in tank water. Then put back into DT

 

[asome_one]

Thanks guys! I'll give it coral RX a try and then try out the peroxide.