Help identify please!

[mermaid_life]

Hi, can someone help me identify what type of algae this is? It's green, slimy, not hairy or fuzzy, occasionally traps bubbles, grows into a thick film. My CUC doesn't to want to touch it. The tangs are 50/50 on if they will eat it and only if I scrape it off the walls.

Vibrant doesn't seem to put a dent into it although it worked for me with GHA, dinos, and other green film algae in the past. It keeps smothering my zoas and frogspawn. What is it?!?

 

[JGT]

Hi, can someone help me identify what type of algae this is? It's green, slimy, not hairy or fuzzy, occasionally traps bubbles, grows into a thick film. My CUC doesn't to want to touch it. The tangs are 50/50 on if they will eat it and only if I scrape it off the walls.

Vibrant doesn't seem to put a dent into it although it worked for me with GHA, dinos, and other green film algae in the past. It keeps smothering my zoas and frogspawn. What is it?!?

Hair algae. Comes in all colors. Check your NO3and PO4. Suction it out, reduce lighting, feed less. Be patient. Will take time to eradicate.

 

[mermaid_life]

Hair algae. Comes in all colors. Check your NO3and PO4. Suction it out, reduce lighting, feed less. Be patient. Will take time to eradicate.

Can you blow off hairy algae? IME the times i had hair algae i had to scrub. this one i can blow off with a turkey baster and it comes off in chunks/sheets

 

[JGT]

Can you blow off hairy algae? IME the times i had hair algae i had to scrub. this one i can blow off with a turkey baster and it comes off in chunks/sheets

That could only spread it. Siphon it off out of the tank. You need to be vigilant about removing it. Cyanos or dinos are slimy and stringy with bubbles in it. Dinos are an algae, Cyanos a bacteria.