Help !!!

[nanchil]

Can you please help ? I have been battling with this algae for last two months. I syphoned multiple time. This is a green stuff like mat over the sand bed. When I remove, the sand comes with it. Changed water regularly. Running chemipure blue and GFO. Finally tried chemiclean. No luck. Any idea what is this ?

 

[James M]

Looks like GHA . How old is you tank ?

 

[nanchil]

Looks like GHA . How old is you tank ?

Thanks. It’s 8 months old. I do see some GHA on the power head though ... but this is taken over my sand bed. It’s flat like a layer on the top of the sand bed. Thanks

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Ewwww.

Honestly, I’d pull it all and reboot.
Toss the sand. Something bad happened there.

 

[nanchil]

Ewwww.

Honestly, I’d pull it all and reboot.
Toss the sand. Something bad happened there.

I pulled it couple of times. I am trying to find the root cause though ... thanks.

 

[James M]

It’s not the sand . Your rocks are probably leaching a ton of phosphate. As salty suggested you probably need to do a reboot

 

[nanchil]

It’s not the sand . Your rocks are probably leaching a ton of phosphate. As salty suggested you probably need to do a reboot

Thanks. I used Marco dry rock to start. I started and still using RO/DI water. So are you sure it GHA ? If so what’s the treatment? Other than adding sea hare ? Thanks

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

What are you’re no3 and Po4?

I’d need to see structure of the plant for a better I’d.

 

[nanchil]

What are you’re no3 and Po4?

I’d need to see structure of the plant for a better I’d.

Thanks. No3 is around 10 and po4 is around .08. Red Sea kit. The structure is like a sand mat on top of the sand bed.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

You’ve got a whole lot going on in there. Bubble algae , what looks like dinos , and the what looks like green hair algae on the sand.

The sources are usually food , overstocked tank , lack of clemonup crew or bad source water.

Honestly the no3 and Po4 ain’t that bad , so I’m going with a combo prob in there

 

[nanchil]

You’ve got a whole lot going on in there. Bubble algae , what looks like dinos , and the what looks like green hair algae on the sand.

The sources are usually food , overstocked tank , lack of clemonup crew or bad source water.

Honestly the no3 and Po4 ain’t that bad , so I’m going with a combo prob in there

Thanks. Yes I tend to feed my fish more. I will cutdown the food. Have pretty good cleanup crew. But will add more. Thanks for your feedback. Thanks

 

[Jcat2k]

Thanks. Yes I tend to feed my fish more. I will cutdown the food. Have pretty good cleanup crew. But will add more. Thanks for your feedback. Thanks

When adding cleanup crew think about where they hang out most of the time. My experience with snails has been that Trochus snails are great for rocks and glass, Nassarius snails work in the sand bed, and Cerith snails work the top of the sand bed.