Hard Nuisance Algae

[ArowanaLover1902]

For the past month or so I've had this really annoying green algae in my tank. At first, when it only occurred on my already coralline algae covered side walls, I didn't care, but now it has migrated to the front wall and its really hard to remove by hand (I have to get a scrubber and really bear down, I hate doing it, I can't imagine the tank likes it). Is there a chemical or natural solution to the problem?

 

[Bret Brinkmann]

Is it hair or film? A snail will take care of it either way. Ceriths, dwarf ceriths, astrea, ninja star astrea, trochus, and many others. Reef Cleaners, Inland Aquatics, Blue Zoo Aquatics, KP Aquatics to name just a few. You could also get micro stars and/or limpets.

 

[pecan2phat]

I also have this hard green algae growing on my back glass and it definitely is not coralline algae. It's so adhered that a razor won't even take it off.

 

[Bret Brinkmann]

Is it hard like a rock or hard as in difficult to remove? Coraline comes in green I hear. May be a picture?

 

[ArowanaLover1902]

Description: (I'll take pics later)
- Very hard, no magnet scrubber would remove it at all, I got a algae pad and hunkered down on it, that worked well, but took forever
- Dark green
- Appears in small dots of varying intensities
- Snails (even my huge turbo snail, who I use in case of emergency algae) don't do anything about it
- Similar to coraline in location, but grows faster and not as densely, coraline grows in huge splotches that grow out, this just adds more dots around it

My filtration:
UV (maybe it is time for a bulb change, just now thinking about that)
Sump (the back of the biocube
Protein skimmer
10 gallon refugium

Cleaning crew
2 red leg hermits
1 blue leg hermit
1 green mithrax crab
1 huge turbo snail
1 pistol shrimp (his tunnels keep under my rocks clean)
1 copepods, amphipods, various macroalgaes, etc

 

[Super Fly]

anyone ever find out what this hard green algae is? my tank recently started developing these as well...

 

[Super Fly]

any thoughts @saltyfilmfolks ? thx

 

[Super Fly]

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[shred5]

It could be a encrusting coral.
A friend had green/brown fire coral very quickly encrust his back glass.
He liked it but very hard to get off...

 

[Super Fly]

It could be a encrusting coral.
A friend had green/brown fire coral very quickly encrust his back glass.
He liked it but very hard to get off...

Thx for the reply! Not sure if it is coral bc there are trails on the glass from snails trying to eat this stuff...I'm just going to scrape it off with a razer blade this weekend during WC.