So I've been fighting this algae for as long as I can remember. If I were to put a time frame on it I would say it's been about a year long battle with this insane algae. I don't even know what it is or how to kill it. I've been scrubbing my plugs with a toothbrush to remove the algae so they don't look like little green afros. I recently had to start taking my rock out and scrubbing the algae off of them just to get control on this stuff. I don't know exactly what kinds of algae here's one type that is very thick and green and there is another that is more of a brown color that behaves like snot. Sometimes it will creep around and envelop some corals.
Just before these pictures were taken I had to clean it off my gorgonian because it was covered in just a mucousy film of this brown algae. Sometimes this brown algae snot stuff will suddenly decide to become a long string that will lead up to the surface from a rock and then get broken into pieces in the current.
Pictured below are both the green and brown algae I'm fighting. The brown algae has been circled as sometimes it can really blend in. As you can tell, a lot of my coral is irritated from constantly being touched by this algae.
What is this stuff and what can I do to kill/get rid of it?
Just before these pictures were taken I had to clean it off my gorgonian because it was covered in just a mucousy film of this brown algae. Sometimes this brown algae snot stuff will suddenly decide to become a long string that will lead up to the surface from a rock and then get broken into pieces in the current.
Pictured below are both the green and brown algae I'm fighting. The brown algae has been circled as sometimes it can really blend in. As you can tell, a lot of my coral is irritated from constantly being touched by this algae.
What is this stuff and what can I do to kill/get rid of it?


