Help id this algae please

[dwdoworkdw]

Tank has been up 3 months or so. Not quite sure what this is. Was hopping it was a quick and easy id lol. It’s not hairy or anything just turning the rocks green I was fighting off brown string algae for about a week then this started to grow. Cuc doesn’t seem to eat it and lawnmower doesn’t seem to be interested.

 

[Stephen Glover]

Just a tank going through the normal maturing stage, nothing to concern yourself with. Just keep a log of your parameters and take it as it comes.

 

[dwdoworkdw]

Just a tank going through the normal maturing stage, nothing to concern yourself with. Just keep a log of your parameters and take it as it comes.

Thank you I had about a week and a half of trouble. Long story short I put some chemi pure elite in there (to much as well) and it’s zeroed out my nitrates and phosphates so I thought I had Dino’s and I was dosing peroxide and all that fun stuff. And then they started growing after I got everything balanced back out so I wasn’t quite sure if it was normal or not thank you. Good sir I currently have my lights on all blue to help fight the nuisance algae I was dealing with I haven’t seen any of that and three days or so is it OK to gradually turn my whites back up? along with my red and green or should I leave the red and greens off for a while?

 

[Stephen Glover]

you can start raising your whites, reds and greens slowly. I wouldn’t dose hydrogen peroxide, your rocks just need to mature.

 

[jabberwock]

Adding "stuff" to the tank is typically NOT the way to go. Just let it do its thing.

 

[Subsea]

This would be a good time to add a few janitors to your clean up crew.

 

[Gomez Adams]

Adding "stuff" to the tank is typically NOT the way to go. Just let it do its thing.

This.

Don't play mad chemist. It almost always winds up doing more harm than good in the long run, and the long run is the only game in town.