Help with Green Turf Algae (video inside)

[Dan13]

Hey Guys,

I had this algae a few months back and was told that it was Bryopsis. I was then told by other people that it was GHA. I treated as though it was GHA, removed every single rock and scrubbed them clean, did a 40% water change, then weekly 15% water changes, introduced a media reactor with Reef Spec Carbon, and it has still come back after about 4-5 weeks.

I am now under the impression that it is in fact Green Turf Algae and have done a video below for you to see it all with the pumps blowing it (it is difficult to see this in just pictures)


So the question is, does anyone have an excellent way of getting rid of this turf?!

My current readings:
Temperature 26
Salinity 1.026
Ph 8.2
Alkalinity 8.0
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 20
Magnesium 1520
Calcium 420
Phosphate 0.6

More information:
Tank running for 9-10 months
6x 39W T5 bulbs from 12pm to 10pm daily
95G tank
Skimmer and chaeto in sump
Standard amount of flow
15% water changes every weeks
I use distilled water (Zero TDS) with Red Sea Coral Pro Reef Salt
Rotate between Formula One flakes and mysis or artemia
Feed my coral 2 times a week with Microbe-Lift Coral Food Plus (I am in Austria and do not have the selection available to me like you guys do, please don't tell me to use different coral food!)

Inhabitants:
1 Oscellaris Clown
1 Blue Tang
1 Firefish
3 Yellowtail Damselfish
2 Blue Green Chromis
1 Bicolor Blenny
1 Sleeper Banded Goby
1 Peppermint Shrimp
2 Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp
1 Blood Red Fire Shrimp
1 Blue Tuxedo Urchin
1 Orange Collector Urchin
5 Turbo Snails
8 Hermit Crabs
1 Large Bubble Tip Anemone
A bunch of coral

 

[redpine42]

That looks different than my GHA. My Tang and Fox face took two days to get rid of most of it.

 

[Dan13]

That looks different than my GHA. My Tang and Fox face took two days to get rid of most of it.

Which is why I said Green TURF Algae, and not Green HAIR Algae

 

[Jdgreef24]

I'm currently dealing with somewhat the same thing. It broke out pretty bad on my sand and some rock. So far my methods have consisted of removing as much of it as I can/emerald crabs/more flow/and I too had 0 phosphates and about 25 Nitrates so I'm really trying to get those two balanced out. I started carbon dosing and just bought a reactor to run biopellets and take a more aggressive approach to nutrient removal so both can stay relatively undetectable. I'd be happy with 5 nitrate. I believe dosing vinegar has helped keep it from spreading or getting more dense and I'm looking forward to the biopellets. For what it's worth, I also took my fuge offline and am running a cleaner sump area (but I run an AIO so that's not really the same thing)

 

[fort wenty]

I dealt with green turf algae for 6 months and I think what finally helped was a combination of weekly 15% water changes, manual removal of turf algae, Vibrant dosing and introduction of a blue tuxedo urchin.

When I started manually removing the turf algae, I noticed my tuxedo urchin would be more keen to graze over where the turf algae used to be. Probably helped clean off the embedded roots?

 

[Braves Fan]

Your Nitrate number is high ,, are your dosing anything to bring this number down ? Some people will dose vinegar to help bring their Nitrate number down ,, dosing vinegar is good for helping with high Nitrates ,, the down side ,, if you don't have a good skimmer ,, and even if you do ,, to much vinegar ,, will pre mote algae growth ,, I would start with getting your Nitrate & Phosphate number down ,, my guess is ,, your overfeeding your fish ,,, getting your Nitrate & Phosphate number down ,, will leave very little for the algae to eat jmo