Algae vs Corals - who wins in when they collide?

[mdbronco]

I’ve been dealing with a Dictyota breakout in my 55 gallon. Because of the size of tank, most natural solutions are a no go. I’m left with either dosing with Algae Fix or keeping it as-is.

The reason why I would keep it is because it is an iridescent blue and looks kind of nice and ever since it’s taken over every bit of my rock work, my tank has never been better. Sps are growing, pods are reproducing and are huge, and parameters stable. My only concern is that the algae would over take the sps (it has killed some zoas and cloves).

So what wins between sps/lps and macro algae in a turf war? Should I eliminate or let things take their natural course?

 

[Reeferdood]

Algae will eventually choke out corals so I would manually remove any that begins to shade your corals. That is not an algae that many reefers have issues with so as long as you keep it in check it might look pretty cool...

 

[Scotty Buttons]

That's kinda cool, I've never heard of anyone having that growing in their aquarium. I agree with reeferdood on manual removal, but it also seems that some kind of urchin might mow it down? I remember seeing something about urchins that eat the base of kelp causing it to detach, your situation might be similar. Got any pictures of it? And your tank?

 

[mdbronco]

Funny thing about the urchin - I just added a tuxedo to the tank last week and now the algae is covering it all on the outside. So my blue tuxedo is now this weird iridescent blue tuxedo algae thing. Seems fine but isn’t really do much to the algae itself.