Help me ID this Algae

[Ksturg]

I have been battling this algae for a while I need help to ID it. I have treated it for cyano but it didn’t go away with chemi clean. I use a turkey blaster to blow it off the rock and it’s righy back an hour or 2 later.

 

[Palyzoa]

Might be dinoflagellates, nasty stuff... Not sure but it looks like it. Lets see if someone else can ID #reefsquad

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

It could be dino yes. Chemiclen wont work with certain types of cyano.


Can you list the no3 and Po4

What are you feeding? Coral foods Esp.
Vibrant ?
Carbon dosing ?

 

[Ksturg]

I am in the process of waiting for my phosban 150 to show up to start to run gfo.

 

[Ksturg]

Po4 was .25 No3 is 0 feeding mysis and brine shrimp I have fuel but haven’t used it in months no carbon dosing but I do run carbon. Vibrant I did dose just when I had bad algae break out and everything went away but this keeps coming back.

 

[Ksturg]

It’s real stringy stuff some strands are get to a foot long.

 

[KJ]

Look like dinoflagellates.

 

[saltyhog]

If you have access to a microscope you can siphon some off and take a picture of it through the scope. If it looks like this...it's dinos.

 

[Ksturg]

Nope no microscope unfortunately.

 

[Ksturg]

Any suggestions on how to get rid of this nasty stuff?

 

[Reefer5640]

I got rid of mine by dosing 1ml of 3% peroxide for every 10 gallons of aquarium water + a 3~5 day black out (if I remember right I ended on day 4). You’ll want to get as much out as possible before you do it. That was a couple years ago since I’ve had to deal with it. I understand there are some pretty good products out there for this now though so you may not need to go the route that I did here’s a link to one that I’ve heard works pretty good https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/fauna-marin-ultra-algea-x.html

 

[Reefer5640]

I got rid of mine by dosing 1ml of 3% peroxide for every 10 gallons of aquarium water + a 3~5 day black out (if I remember right I ended on day 4). You’ll want to get as much out as possible before you do it. That was a couple years ago since I’ve had to deal with it. I understand there are some pretty good products out there for this now though so you may not need to go the route that I did here’s a link to one that I’ve heard works pretty good https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/fauna-marin-ultra-algea-x.html

 

[Ksturg]

So what I ended up doing was stop skimming fed a little more heavily to bring my nitrates up and cut my flow and so far it’s working. My dinos have receded I will do this for another week. Then when I turn my skimmer back on I’m going to turn it way down.