Nuisance Brown Algae

[Texas Rick]

I’m thinking of leaving my aquarium lights off for about 3 days. Due to brown algae growing on everything. Not completely in the darkness but it will have some light from the living room/dining room area. But my big concern are these corals. What is your suggestion? Would it hurt them?

 

[BighohoReef]

How old is your tank? What are your parameters? What type of cleaning crew do you have in the tank?

I would reduce your lighting schedule for now, not completely shut them down. If you can run in blue light only reduce the green, red and white. From what I can see from your picture it looks like green hair algae (GHA) I might recommend getting vibrant to help combat it if it is. Can you take a closer picture? It'll help with the ID

 

[Texas Rick]

Brown hair algae. I did buy vibrant, came in today and started dosing

 

[Texas Rick]

How old is your tank? What are your parameters? What type of cleaning crew do you have in the tank?

I would reduce your lighting schedule for now, not completely shut them down. If you can run in blue light only reduce the green, red and white. From what I can see from your picture it looks like green hair algae (GHA) I might recommend getting vibrant to help combat it if it is. Can you take a closer picture? It'll help with the ID

The parameters all look good. I don’t have them handy right now. The tank is about 1 year and 2 months. But I have to re-do it about 6 months ago due to a horrible outbreak of aiptasia.

 

[BighohoReef]

Oi that aptasia... tank killer, I'm sorry to hear that

To keep my GHA under control I use a tang and an army of trochus snails in my DT, they a great job in keeping it at bay, in my QT tank I had an outbreak and used vibrant (7weeks) and for good measure fluconazole (14 days).

 

[Texas Rick]

Oi that aptasia... tank killer, I'm sorry to hear that

To keep my GHA under control I use a tang and an army of trochus snails in my DT, they a great job in keeping it at bay, in my QT tank I had an outbreak and used vibrant (7weeks) and for good measure fluconazole (14 days).

Just ordered a army of snails. I ordered 2 earlier this week but they came in way too small. They didn’t even make a dent in the algae. They spend more time sleeping than anything else. So I ordered a army