Bubble Algae

Reef Hammer · Dec 10, 2018

Ok...so I have had my tank running for 10 months and things were going well until bubble algae reared it’s ugly head. It is on my rocks in multiple places. I need advice on how to get it under control. I have corals mounted on the rocks. HELP!!!! Thank you all.

Oshengems · Dec 10, 2018

Vibrant from UWC i saw a few pop up and on my sump once you see one most likely more will follow

Reef Hammer · Dec 11, 2018

Did you have good success with Vibrant?

Oshengems · Dec 11, 2018

I order last night will let you know, there’s a few threads here with other reefers given their opinion on the products

Amps Reef Life · Dec 11, 2018

Bubble algae sucks. I have it in my tank too. I had an explosion of it when one of my tangs died I think he was eating it as it grew and with him gone its growing and growing. I have been manually removing it for now. Good luck let us know how Vibrant works.

Neo Jeo · Dec 11, 2018

I got rid of my tank back in the day due to bubble alage. Now I inspect very coral and remove and rinse if somes on it.

I have heard that Foxface and yellow tangs like to eat it also green emeral crabs but I had no luck in the past.

Sorry to hear

Reef Hammer · Dec 11, 2018

I ordered vibrant also. Will keep everyone up to date. I have read it takes 3-6 weeks so stay tuned!

juniorrocketdad · Dec 11, 2018

I have a big bubble algae problem so I’ll follow along, I was going to try a foxface before I went to vibrant but I’m curious to see if it’ll work for you

lksheppa · Dec 15, 2018

I’m following this as well. We have been dealing with it for a couple months. Removed rocks and let them dry out, removed manually, removed with a siphon, and cut back feeding. It’s still growing heavily on the sand bed and few rocks.

Reef Hammer · Dec 15, 2018

I will let you know. Put in first dose yesterday. I am guessing it will take 3-4 weeks from what I have read.

lksheppa · Dec 15, 2018

I own vibrant and it worked wonders on green hair and diatom bloom but the most regular dosing closed up my corals so I’ve held off going back in with it. Let me know if you see anything like it. I might try it out again.

Reef Hammer · Dec 16, 2018

I will. So far my acans are still happy. My torches and Duncan’s are still nice and big. Zoos and mushrooms are open and my Scoly looks good! I see it started working on my other nuisance algae like GHA. It will take some time on my bubble algae I am sure but so far so good on day 3!