Bubble Algea? Green , brown and clear bubbles

[GibsonGuitars]

Hello, I have a second tank that is almost all fish with just a few small frags. Today I noticed lots of (what looked like) air bubbles all over the rocks. As I looked closer some of the bubbles are colored and there is a bed of like a slim type algae under the bubbles. Some tan, brown, red and green. I have a sea hair in my coral tank, and he has almost run out of food over there and was going to take him back to LFS but thinking I should transplant him to this tank. Please let me know how to tackle this, last time I checked (5 days ago) all the parameters were good, no ammonia, no nitrite and 5 ppm nitrate. I’ll test again in the moring (it’s late) but any advice on what this stuff is and how to get rid of it would be appreciated.

 

[Chrille26]

That looks more like a Dinflagellates or Cyanobacteria outbreak then bubble algae. I am currently battling both in my tank right now and both takes alot of different approaches.
When you get a positive id on what it is there are a few things worth trying to get rid of it.

Here is a example of my bubble algae.

And here is a shot of airbubbles trapt in dinoflagellates.

 

[GibsonGuitars]

That looks more like a Dinflagellates or Cyanobacteria outbreak then bubble algae. I am currently battling both in my tank right now and both takes alot of different approaches.
When you get a positive id on what it is there are a few things worth trying to get rid of it.

Here is a example of my bubble algae.

And here is a shot of airbubbles trapt in dinoflagellates.

Yup, that’s looks like the things I have... got some frags from a new LFS that mostly died 7-10 days later , and this algae is growing around those frags almost exclusively... the other rock with frags from my usual LFS has nothing at all. I knew I should have gotten some coral rx instead of using up the cheap seachem dip I had left over. Thanks for the ID’s, I’ll look up solutions assuming these are as stated.