Cyano, hair, or (gasp) byropsis

[abecker]

See photo below. I will siphon it off the rock and then it appears again a few days later. Nitrates are low according to Red Sea kit but according to my Hanna Checker phosphorus is at 11.

 

[Jason mack]

Is that correct Your po4 is at 11. .. is that ppm
#reefsquad ..

 

[Gweeds1980]

The bubbles say dinos to me... those green strands tho, look very bryopsis-y.

 

[abecker]

Is that correct Your po4 is at 11. .. is that ppm
#reefsquad ..

That is ppb of phosphorous

 

[Jason mack]

Are you running and gfo in an rector .. that Will help with po4 .. what is Your nitrate at ? Some more info over Your tank wil help .. how old , size , what youve got in there .

 

[reeferfoxx]

11 ppb is .011 ppm. I wouldn't run any GFO and this stuff you have could be confused with diatoms.

How old is the tank?
Is it possible to get a clearer picture? As in, press the camera against the glass so no shaking with the blues set at a minimum and pumps turned off?

 

[abecker]

I can get a clearer picture when i get home. The tank has been up for around 4 months. Nitrate is showing around 2 on the Red Sea test kit. I don’t have GFO but did just start an algae reactor last weekend with some chaeto.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

How many snails do have in there?
Is there more of this in the tank?

And welcome to the ugly phase.

 

[abecker]

I have a turbo nail a bunch of baby nessarius, and maybe 5 Ceriths. There is some more lower in the tank on the rocks, but this is the area with the most.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I'd add more , and grab a diversity. If you can find smaller turbos get a couple extra. Stops em from knocking stuff over. For a couple years anyway
And grab a toothbrush and do some water changes.

 

[abecker]

I'd add more , and grab a diversity. If you can find smaller turbos get a couple extra. Stops em from knocking stuff over. For a couple years anyway
And grab a toothbrush and do some water changes.

Will do. The good thing is a turkey baster has worked well getting it off the rocks.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Will do. The good thing is a turkey baster has worked well getting it off the rocks.

Best tool ever.
So there's not much hairy stuff? That'll catch a lot of funk.

If you can, we'd love to see the rest of it.

 

[abecker]

Best tool ever.
So there's not much hairy stuff? That'll catch a lot of funk.

If you can, we'd love to see the rest of it.

There is a little bit of hairy stuff, I’ll get a picture under white light tomorrow morning.

 

[Diesel]

What size tank is this?
What's the amount of flow through the tank?
Livestock?
What do you feed and how often?

 

[reefwiser]

The best treatment is to use Fluconazole I have had it take of take care all of my algae issues. It does good to have a algae scrubber or GFO but once algae is in treached it can and will compete with other forms for phosphate.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bryopsis-cure-my-battle-with-bryopsis-using-fluconazole.285096/
https://www.payless-petproducts.com/fluconazole200.html

 

[abecker]

Below is a FTS. I have two clowns, a cardinal, a blenny, and a diamond goby. Along with a carpet nem and a few other corals. I usually feed a 1 cm square of either PE mysis or reef frenzy Nano. This is a reefer e-260 using the built in pumps.

 

[Jberge]

Below is a FTS. I have two clowns, a cardinal, a blenny, and a diamond goby. Along with a carpet nem and a few other corals. I usually feed a 1 cm square of either PE mysis or reef frenzy Nano. This is a reefer e-260 using the built in pumps.

My tank looked like this with gha back in July at 7 months old. I had set up my tank with LR that came with it. I’m pretty sure they were leaching phosphates. I’d scrub it off, do wc’s, cut down lighting/feeding and it wasn’t really helping. So I know it’s cheating but I pulled out a few rocks and soaked them in peroxide. Then I dosed about 2ml per gal everyday for a month (worked up from 1ml/gal after fish, shrimp and corals looked fine) . After that I set up a fuge with chaeto. It did wonders for my tank, the rock was 95% clear and I stopped having to clean the glass everyday. It’s been almost 2 months since the last dose and everything has stayed manageable. Just my expierence, thought I’d share it.

 

[abecker]

My tank looked like this with gha back in July at 7 months old. I had set up my tank with LR that came with it. I’m pretty sure they were leaching phosphates. I’d scrub it off, do wc’s, cut down lighting/feeding and it wasn’t really helping. So I know it’s cheating but I pulled out a few rocks and soaked them in peroxide. Then I dosed about 2ml per gal everyday for a month (worked up from 1ml/gal after fish, shrimp and corals looked fine) . After that I set up a fuge with chaeto. It did wonders for my tank, the rock was 95% clear and I stopped having to clean the glass everyday. It’s been almost 2 months since the last dose and everything has stayed manageable. Just my expierence, thought I’d share it.

Since my tank has a sump in the back I set up an algae reactor.