Can anyone tell me what this is?!

Papadovak · Mar 17, 2014

My tank finally finished it's cycle and now that the lights are on I noticed this hair like stuff on some of my rock. I looked up hair algae but everything I saw was green...... Can it be Grey as well?

any help would appreciated.

Papadovak · Mar 17, 2014

Bump.....

preston469 · Mar 17, 2014

Have you been dosing calcium etc??

Papadovak · Mar 17, 2014

No calcium but some nitrate reducer

preston469 · Mar 17, 2014

Can you give us more info? Perameters etc.

lol 100 questions

rock_lobster · Mar 17, 2014

just looks like algae in general(there are tons of species) your clean up crew should take care of that. Hair algae and bryopsis are the ones that the clean up crew tend to leave behind but I dont think you have either. Try adding a few more turbos and hermits and maybe an algae blenny.

Papadovak · Mar 17, 2014

I guess i should have told you guys in the first place lol
Freshly cycled 55g with 20g sump
30 lbs of LR
Salinty- 1.024
Nh4-0.0
No2-0.0
No3-15
ph-8.4
Tested with API liquid color test kits

Papadovak · Mar 17, 2014

rock_lobster said:
just looks like algae in general(there are tons of species) your clean up crew should take care of that. Hair algae and bryopsis are the ones that the clean up crew tend to leave behind but I dont think you have either. Try adding a few more turbos and hermits and maybe an algae blenny.

I have 2 turbos, and 10 hermits. How many of each would be adequate?

Papadovak · Mar 17, 2014

The lfs said this should suffice along with 5 astreas

NanaReefer · Mar 18, 2014

Whatever it is looks like its dying. Can you remove the rock and scrub it off?

Papadovak · Mar 18, 2014

It's on multiple rocks I suppose I could take them all out??...

poorish idol · Mar 18, 2014

It doesnt look bad..as long as its not green or red in color I wouldnt worry...imo u need to triple ur cleanup crew..u can never have enough....try for the poi ty coned snails..w/e they are called..they last the longest

Tahoe61 · Mar 18, 2014

It just looks like this benign mixture of detritus and some harmless algae growth. Common in newer set ups.. It should recede once coralline algae and film algaes start to take over.