ALGAE TAKING OVER MY TANK

[courtneyTANG]

I bought new tank lights about a month or two ago. And the store owner said I would get an algae bloom but that it would take care of its self. Well this brown stringy algae is tanking over my tank and has bubbles all over it? I scrub it off a rock and it just comes back faster. Now it's on my waterline, there's bubbles under the sand. ITS EVERYWHERE.

I have cleaned the tank more than normal and done multiple water changes. How do I get rid of this stuff?!

HELP

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I'd love to see a pic under white lights to get the Id. Cyano bacteria or dinoflagellates.
I also like to see a full tank shot.

I think your going to need a big scrub. It's not bad but the rock def had a lot of funk on it.

Do you have activated carbon and gfo around.

Do you have a test kit?
NO3 and PO4?
What's your ph at.
Are you using RODI water?

 

[Paullawr]

Looks Dino's...jeez it's becoming plague like in this industry and our usual dips are useless against it. Even quarantining is not assured to prevent it.

If you have a microscope review a sample. If it's Dino's you will see loads of spherical/pear shaped cells moving around - something like this.