Algae problem

[Cole.mormon]

I have green film algae, bryposis, cyano, and brown algae. I was looking at a snail only for CUC. I was thinking the 25 gal clean up from reef cleaners. It's for a 60 gallon with low to medium rock work. Where do I stand currently?

 

[CoralB]

Your currently standing next to a tank with a lot of algae !!!

What are your parameters ???

 

[Cole.mormon]

Nitrate 20
Phos .08
Ammonia 0

 

[CoralB]

If those stats have been stable then yes a all snail clean up crew is good only I’d add a few small to medium tuxedo urchins and about five Mexican turbo snails . If your tank is heavily over grown I’d consider blacking out your tank , shutting off the lights for 3 days . Add bacteria like microbactor 7 and run your skimmer to export and add oxygen while your treating . It wouldn’t hurt to also run a 25 watt or higher UV light as well on top of the CUC . Minimize your feeding during this time and manually pull algae .

 

[Cole.mormon]

I cannot add urchins because of my corals most are unglued and on a frag rack

 

[Cole.mormon]

Don't have a skinner but have a 18 watt uv sterilizer

 

[neo1738]

@CoralB you had me LOL on that one!

Consider less white, red, and green lighting if you run them a lot. Def less white.