Algae

[reeflife75g]

I have bubbles on my rock coral and my glass but the bubbles will blow right off ? What is it

 

[Sandroni]

Bubble algae?

 

[Oldsalt01]

Need pics! Or more info. Color, do they float when u blow them off, are they attached or part of algae???

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Is your skimmer releasing microbubbles into the aquarium, mine sure does and the bubbles will accumulate on the glass some and on the underside of rocks. You may have a thick bio-film over everything in the tank and it is trapping air and holding it on surfaces, in which case an increase in flow might be the simplest solution.

 

[reeflife75g]

 

[Sandroni]

+1 on the air bubbles it happens to me too, it doesn't look like algae.

 

[reeflife75g]

+1 on the air bubbles it happens to me too, it doesn't look like algae.

Maybe so but I do have some algae in the sand but I scrapped my glass really good and I had all old algae and coraline that's probably why it's in the sand it fell off and stuff

 

[Oldsalt01]

Hard to tell from my cellphone. For pics, kick up ur whites, down on the blues, or get an orange gel filter for the camera. It'll neutralize the blues. U can hold it over ur cell lens if that's what you use for pics

 

[Oldsalt01]

They look too large to be air bubbles. If they're green or purple it could be the dreaded Bubble Algae which means u may have a neutrient issue. I just went through that nightmare and ended up stripping and sterilizing the tank with vinegar to kill the spores, replacing the rock, and starting over. 2 months in and no evidence of any more BA. IF that's what it is, you need to act quickly as it will spread like wildfire. There are also chemicals that will kill it, but I hate messing with an existing system like that. Without full color pics it's hard to say for sure.

 

[Palyzoa]

From the pic it looks like air bubbles but I can't say for sure. Is it green?

 

[reeflife75g]

From the pic it looks like air bubbles but I can't say for sure. Is it green?

Yes it's green on the glass

 

[reeflife75g]

 

[Oldsalt01]

Looking more like air bubbles. If it's DARK green it's bubble algae. That looks like it's picking up the algae color it's sitting on. If it sinks it's BA. If it floats it's not.

 

[sfin52]

The dreaded Dino could produce bubbles like that.

 

[sfin52]

Dino mixed with gha
THis from a tank with confirmed Dino outbreak.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I'd bet it's just a bit of cyano.

 

[sfin52]

Let’s hope.

 

[Legal Reefer]

Will the beneficial bacteria in live rock cause bubbles like that as it's processing ammonia?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

It's not always cancer.

Read page one. Read page 3

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Will the beneficial bacteria in live rock cause bubbles like that as it's processing ammonia?

IMO. Rarely. If it does it would be nitrogen I belive.