BoSalman
Active Member
Hello,
So i was dealing with this nasty algae outbreak that caught me offguard when my nutrients where bottomed out. It covered everything on my tank and it was nasty!
First thing came to my mind was dinos! So i tried to fight it with H2O2 and it didn't make a dent on it. Tried raising nutrients via dosing Seachem Phosphorous with Brightwall Aquatics NeoNitro and it didn't do much, got a UV and nothing happened.
I blacked out my entire tank for 72 hours and it went away but left very tiny marks here and there that looks nothing like the algae itself (white hair like streaks but tiny).
Fast forward to 3 months later, it is making a comes back again and i hooked up my UV (D-D 39w) and it's not even erradicating it nor slowing it down...
It is stringy, it doesnt disappear at night, it did show up almost exactly where it was before (same spot on rocks) and it doesnt appear to be staying anywhere on my sandbed..
Specs/Chemistry is:
110g total volume. (1 yr running)
Started with dry rock and live sand.
T5/led lighting.
Skimmer comes on and off occasionally to adjust nutrients.
Livestock: 8 fish with 2 shrimps and snails.
Sal: 1.0255 (hanna/apex)
Kh: 7.5 (hanna)
Ca: 434 (hanna)
Phos: 0.03-0.06 (hanna low range, checked every two-days over two weeks).
Nitrates: 25-10-5 (fluctuates up and down over a course of a two week period).
I do feed twice a day, one with pellets and once with frozen/frakes and reedroids occasionally.
Everything in my tank seems normal, no snail issues, livestock is happy, coralline algae exploding everywhere, my four frags (sps) are doing good with better coloration and growth.
So what exactly am i dealing with here? Do i need a scope to identify? What are the possibilities?
As i said; stringy, "very rare" shows bubbles, doesn't disappear at night, when i hit it with turkey blaster it just blasts small bits of brown stuff everywhere and just appears back on the same spot sometimes! Especially on this zoa plug...
Pictures taken with lights out on tank but running my livingrooms spotlights.
So i was dealing with this nasty algae outbreak that caught me offguard when my nutrients where bottomed out. It covered everything on my tank and it was nasty!
First thing came to my mind was dinos! So i tried to fight it with H2O2 and it didn't make a dent on it. Tried raising nutrients via dosing Seachem Phosphorous with Brightwall Aquatics NeoNitro and it didn't do much, got a UV and nothing happened.
I blacked out my entire tank for 72 hours and it went away but left very tiny marks here and there that looks nothing like the algae itself (white hair like streaks but tiny).
Fast forward to 3 months later, it is making a comes back again and i hooked up my UV (D-D 39w) and it's not even erradicating it nor slowing it down...
It is stringy, it doesnt disappear at night, it did show up almost exactly where it was before (same spot on rocks) and it doesnt appear to be staying anywhere on my sandbed..
Specs/Chemistry is:
110g total volume. (1 yr running)
Started with dry rock and live sand.
T5/led lighting.
Skimmer comes on and off occasionally to adjust nutrients.
Livestock: 8 fish with 2 shrimps and snails.
Sal: 1.0255 (hanna/apex)
Kh: 7.5 (hanna)
Ca: 434 (hanna)
Phos: 0.03-0.06 (hanna low range, checked every two-days over two weeks).
Nitrates: 25-10-5 (fluctuates up and down over a course of a two week period).
I do feed twice a day, one with pellets and once with frozen/frakes and reedroids occasionally.
Everything in my tank seems normal, no snail issues, livestock is happy, coralline algae exploding everywhere, my four frags (sps) are doing good with better coloration and growth.
So what exactly am i dealing with here? Do i need a scope to identify? What are the possibilities?
As i said; stringy, "very rare" shows bubbles, doesn't disappear at night, when i hit it with turkey blaster it just blasts small bits of brown stuff everywhere and just appears back on the same spot sometimes! Especially on this zoa plug...
Pictures taken with lights out on tank but running my livingrooms spotlights.
