It’s been a year, please help ID

[Christopher Presley]

I’ve thrown the kitchen sink at it. Need a positive I.D please

 

[Dragon52]

Looks like GHA. green hair algae.
If you do a search on the forum you'll find all kinds of ways to get rid of it.

 

[Christopher Presley]

Looks like GHA. green hair algae.
If you do a search on the forum you'll find all kinds of ways to get rid of it.

I forsure had GHA in the past but my tangs devoured the stuff and they won’t touch this. Is it possible it’s something else?

 

[Dustinc1983]

What have you tried besides the sink hehe ?

 

[Christopher Presley]

Most recently fluconazol and vibrant.

 

[Dustinc1983]

Hmm. High nutrients and lighting ??

 

[Glass Algae]

I’ve thrown the kitchen sink at it. Need a positive I.D please

What kind of lights / intensity are you running?

 

[Christopher Presley]

Nutrients are low, any lower would be undetectable. Hydra 26 hd’s running slightly modified saxby.

 

[Miller535]

Maybe bryopsis

 

[uhgster1]

Following. I have the same problem;Blackeye

 

[Miller535]

Nutrients can be deceiving when you have that much algae. As the algae basically works as a giant turf scrubber or refugium consuming them quickly. To have that much algae you have excess nutrient, it's just that the algae is consuming it.

Best method to get rid of it is manual removal (frequently), and working on keeping your water quality good and low nutrients. To starve out the algae.

 

[Dragon52]

I forsure had GHA in the past but my tangs devoured the stuff and they won’t touch this. Is it possible it’s something else?

It's possible but that's what it looks like to me. It's interesting that your tangs ate it before, mine never touched it when I had it.

 

[Glass Algae]

Nutrients can be deceiving when you have that much algae. As the algae basically works as a giant turf scrubber or refugium consuming them quickly. To have that much algae you have excess nutrient, it's just that the algae is consuming it.

Best method to get rid of it is manual removal (frequently), and working on keeping your water quality good and low nutrients. To starve out the algae.

+1 this.

Also is your tang well fed by you that it isn't going after algae?

 

[Christopher Presley]

+1 this.

Also is your tang well fed by you that it isn't going after algae?

I’ve wondered this too and have drastically cut feedings to no luck. When I had what was an obvious gha outbreak (more hairy and longer) all the tangs and the foxface would constantly graze. For the longest time my tank looked great and then this slowly started taking over.

 

[Christopher Presley]

I’m off work the next few weeks and am really going to hammer this tank and see what I can do.

 

[Flux Capacitor]

It looks more like a turf algae which wraps itself around prices of rock. It’s harder to remove than regular GHA. I agree that you have more nutrients in your water than the test show.

What are your maintenance habits? What do you use for nutrient export?

 

[Christopher Presley]

It looks more like a turf algae which wraps itself around prices of rock. It’s harder to remove than regular GHA. I agree that you have more nutrients in your water than the test show.

What are your maintenance habits? What do you use for nutrient export?

Maintenance is pretty good, only thing other than a skimmer and water changes is a algae reactor that I can’t grow chaeto in.

 

[Flux Capacitor]

Maybe lower the amount of food being fed, and the manual removal will help you get ahead. Once that happens hopefully your cheato takes off and out competes the nasty stuff.

 

[Miller535]

The thing to remember about measuring nutrients is that you can only measure what is free floating in the water. Where as when you have a bunch of Algae, all of your excess nutrients are locked up in the algae where your test kit can not measure it.

 

[TriggerFinger]

I’ve had good luck with scrubbing the rock in a bucket of tank water and squirting it with peroxide. Try that on the small chunk of rock in your pictures to see if that helps. Are you able to remove the rest of the rocks?