Black beard algae???

[Newreefmama]

We are a week in to this new 32 gallon Biocube and all of a sudden this black, stringy algae is popping up all over the place! Too much light??? Water pH, ammonia, nitrites and nitrates are acceptable/ perfect. Thank you!!!

 

[Spare time]

Looks like cyano. I wouldn't worry. Just keep nitrate and phosphate in recommended ranged and have a diverse clean up crew (different snails and copepods). Make sure to have good test kits. These things can come and go in reef tanks.

 

[Newreefmama]

Looks like cyano. I wouldn't worry. Just keep nitrate and phosphate in recommended ranged and have a diverse clean up crew (different snails and copepods). Make sure to have good test kits. These things can come and go in reef tanks.

Thank you for your reply!!!!

 

[Spare time]

Thank you for your reply!!!!

If it gets out of hand, then I would try certain things, but let it ride out for now. I'd also cut down amino acid dosing if you are feeding that to corals since I think they pop up more if you add too much of that.