I have a serious algae problem in my IM 40 gal

[DerekT5]

I have a IM Nuvo 40 and had it for about a year now and all of a sudden there is a big brown algae problem. Please help!

 

[Clownman727]

Have you tried to siphon it out?

 

[DerekT5]

Yes did a water change yesterday and it all just came back. Never seen this before

 

[jmt1030]

Siphon and check your water flow. I had the same issue, and when I increased flow it went away rather quickly.

 

[DerekT5]

I have a 425 and a 565gph pump

 

[DerekT5]

And should I aim the flow more to the sand?

 

[Reef man 89]

What do u have for Powerheads in the tank? How often do you do a w/c? I have the same tank and run 2 mp10s

 

[Dennco2000]

Looks like cyano, is this a new tank?

 

[DerekT5]

I do a water change once a week

 

[DerekT5]

This tank is a year old

 

[jmt1030]

In my personal tank, I increased flow and used a half dose of chemiclean. The Cyano was gone within 3 days.

 

[DerekT5]

I have treatment for red Cyan chemiclean will that work

 

[jmt1030]

I have treatment for red Cyan chemiclean will that work

It worked well in my tank. None of my fish, coral or inverts were harmed by it either. My skimmer is still going crazy though.

 

[jmt1030]

I have treatment for red Cyan chemiclean will that work

I'm not sure if that's cyano though. Mine was dark red.

 

[DerekT5]

I'm not sure if that's cyano though. Mine was dark red.

Yeah mine was too

 

[Reef man 89]

Is it diatoms?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

What are your parameters? Nitrate phosphate.
Are you on rodi water?

Any recent new foods or aminos etc?

Is it just on the sand?

 

[DerekT5]

Nitrate 0 and phosphate 0

 

[DerekT5]

I use rodi water I feed brine and flakes

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Weird. How many Clean up crew snails do you have.

It odd. The sand looks like it's only been in there a few months.

It's possible it's just a crazy algae that for introduced and nothing you have eats it.
The colors may be off in the pics but it doesn't look like cyano to me.