Could be cyano… hard to tell from the picture. Likely to happen if detritus is caught in your already existing algae. I would try to do a big water change while scraping off and siphoning out as much if that algae as you can.Hello I have recently been lowering my phosphates from just under 1 to down to 0.1 using the Quantium reef essential Phosphate remover. All the coral and fish have seemed to be looking better. But this new red algae has just started popping up. What could this be and how do I get rid of it? Much appreciated! (also the brown algae is the stuff that was already there before I started dosing).
Any white lighting pictures? For me it looks like a mix of green hair alga and maybe cyano?Hello I have recently been lowering my phosphates from just under 1 to down to 0.1 using the Quantium reef essential Phosphate remover. All the coral and fish have seemed to be looking better. But this new red algae has just started popping up. What could this be and how do I get rid of it? Much appreciated! (also the brown algae is the stuff that was already there before I started dosing).
Ok I'll try to get a white light photo. The other green hair algae was there before and it used to be green hair alge but none of my foxfaces or tangs want to eat it after it turned the way it did. I believe my phospates were high because I had a terrible aquaone skimmer and I used to use tap water until nearly all my coral and fish died.
Yeah lat time I checked last week they were 0.8 and for my flow I have just two wave makers one tunze one but the magnets started to rust so I sealed them with hot glue until I get a new one. And the other is some random one I don't know the brand name of and is very loud and i can hear vibrating sounds from it so I want to replace both of these to better ones.
Nitrate is at 0.8
I would consider that dangerously low in that most macro consumes 30 fold more nitrogen than phosphate. By maintaining such low NO4, competition is limited thereby giving the advantage to undesirable opportunistic algae. I suggest you get that number up to 10pm of NO4.
My nitrate stays at that level without me doing anything and I don't know what to do to get it up if so?
Haha thank you so much! I appreciate it!
Would the aqua forest Bio S work for that?
It may help but not replace the needed bacteria
