Help - unknown algae is take away my reef

[thomasrusconi]

Hello everyone,
I have an issue with Algae that bloomed in my reef aquarium (3 years old). The water values are perfect and I am changing water one a week.

The issue started about 3 weeks ago and I tried:
- Add additional Mexican turbo snails
- Add additional Hermit Crabs
- I have already a Pincushion Urchins
- Reduce light
- dosing peroxide for 7 days
- Reduce Amount of food for the fish
- Stop feeding the corals

Any suggestion of what is going on? Today the water got cloudy as well.

See pictures

 

[HuduVudu]

Those would be dinos.

 

[stephj03]

Kinda looks like dinos. If that's the case cleaner might not be better.

 

[thomasrusconi]

do you have any suggestion to get rid of dinos?

 

[bherbold8]

do you have any suggestion to get rid of dinos?

Check the algae forum tons of info

 

[dvgyfresh]

do you have any suggestion to get rid of dinos?

There’s like a 500 page stickied thread , what worked for me is feeding more, less water changes, introducing a refugium, microbacter 7 dosing, algae barn ocean magik , and cleaning filter pads daily + UV

 

[dvgyfresh]

The best thing was the UV

 

[thomasrusconi]

@dvgyfresh what do you think about using Dino X?

 

[GillianB]

Hello everyone,
I have an issue with Algae that bloomed in my reef aquarium (3 years old). The water values are perfect and I am changing water one a week.

The issue started about 3 weeks ago and I tried:
- Add additional Mexican turbo snails
- Add additional Hermit Crabs
- I have already a Pincushion Urchins
- Reduce light
- dosing peroxide for 7 days
- Reduce Amount of food for the fish
- Stop feeding the corals

Any suggestion of what is going on? Today the water got cloudy as well.

See pictures

I am by no means an expert, but recently I had a problem with cloudy water. I had gotten a UV filter for the tank and the water cleared overnight.

 

[dvgyfresh]

@dvgyfresh what do you think about using Dino X?

Might get rid of it, but unless your fixing the underlying issues the Dino’s would just come back

 

[Pete_the_Puma]

Having, over the last 15 years of reefing, dealt with: Hair algea, Aptaisia, Acro-eating flatworms, Regular flatworms, red bugs and Dinoflagellates I can say without a hint of doubt that the Dinos were the worst!

Do read the 500 pages thread lol and good luck! For me what worked was a combinaion of removing what caused the problem in the first place (Undetectable nutrients due to the combination of Barebottom tank and large refugium growing Cheato, bye bye refugium!) and plumbing in a large UV unit.

Good luck!

 

[thomasrusconi]

I am by no means an expert, but recently I had a problem with cloudy water. I had gotten a UV filter for the tank and the water cleared overnight.

I will try to get an UV light

 

[thomasrusconi]

Just received the new UV light. I have installed in the sump and after 5 min my skimmer was getting crazy. Is that normal? I read somewhere that when the Dinos die there is a toxin that get realeased. I have added active carbon and the skimmer is back to normal.