Brown wafer algae maybe? Help!!

[Justin....#JAMAS]

Hey everyone, have had this stuff growing and recently started to spread...I didn't.think anything much about it at first but now it just seems to be spreading pretty quick....I had cyanobacteria and dosed chemi clean about a week or two ago and held it pretty well at bay and I only feed once a day, only what the fish eat in a minute or so, and spot feed my corals about once a week.....trying to get a decent picture but is there a way to get rid of this stuff?

 

[Justin....#JAMAS]

I normally just have a 48 inch two bulb coralife t5 light and a 48inch orbit marine ic led light but about midday i put a 4 bulb t5 HO light on with only three freshly bought ati bulbs.....it seems to break out when i put the 4 bulb on but the corals seem to take off growing when i use the 4 bulb light....so what in the world do i do???

 

[Justin....#JAMAS]

Any suggestions?

 

[1WildBill]

What’s your water parameters

 

[Justin....#JAMAS]

Alk- 11
CA- 425
Mag- 1400
Nitrate-.02
Phosphates- .001

I feed once a day and just seems like when.I put the HO t5 on it takes off and looks like it's starting to grow brown hair algae out of the brown turf stuff.....maybe chemi clean is worth a shot?

 

[1WildBill]

Never used it. Maybe someone else can tell you.

 

[declanisadog]

Chemiclean will not help you here. it is only good for cyano. I would wager that your nitrates and phosphates are higher than your readings show as the massive amount of algae is consuming them. I would try a 72hr blackout followed by a large water change/manual removal.

 

[Justin....#JAMAS]

Well I'm not putting the HO light on anymore and doing manual removal and continuing water changes as normal....it seems to be disappearing slowly. I dunno why, but it also seemed to help when I took out my bag of carbon...weird....But I think manual removal and I'm lessening the time my light are on too really have helped! But I'm also willing to eager the same thing as you man! But thank God it's going away.......very ugly and caused stress to one of my zoas