Phosphates and green hair algae

[Sir_Andros]

Deep Blue Professional SolarMax HO T5 Double Lamp Light System with Moonlights
24 inch 24 watt 24 watt 4 LED's total 50 watts

 

[Dalmatia]

Again looking at your pics and don't see anything to be worried about. It looks like a newer tank to me? It should work out nicely. The green will turn to red algae, very nice and it's not red cyano,,, just nice red algae! The red cyano you have now should be gone in a while as long as you don't over feed and fix your phosphates

 

[Dalmatia]

I guess something like mine, people ask how? I just don't know, but I think it has a lot to do with t5 lighting. After these LEDs,,, it all went bold and purple
I loved the red algae

 

[Dalmatia]

Sorry I always forget the pic

That was last year maybe a bit more, this is now

, all purple! Loved that crazy red algae. That's what you'll end up with

 

[ReeferBean]

Your tank is 1.5 months old, don't do anything drastic. Just keep sucking it out with your water changes with a small diameter piece of tubing.

 

[Zachary.gingell]

I just wanted you to see this Is out of my algea chamber in my sump this is what hair algae looks like I actually grow it intentionally in my sump keeps my dt cleaner and just to show off here's a pic of my whole system it will be 1 year next month

 

[Sir_Andros]

Well did a little removal of the red slime

Hey by the way would a sponge cause the slime i put it in to catch small particles that got past the skimmer i think it started around the same time i put it in. For a little test i took it out

 

[Sir_Andros]

Whats swimming around in your green hair chamber

 

[Zachary.gingell]

No not unless you leave it in for months at a time just change it out when it looks dirty and it should work just like filter floss

 

[Zachary.gingell]

Nothing it has an emerald crab a gsp frag that was starting to grow Bubble algea on the plug live rock and sand and a couple snails that's it

 

[Sir_Andros]

How do you keep the green hair in the sump and not in your display

 

[Zachary.gingell]

I have a feeling my yellow tang plays a part in that but honestly I don't know I got a piece of live rock that had some on it and put it in my sump about 6 months ago and as you can see the hair algea took over that chamber of my sump and just kinda stayed there so I left it alone to eat up some of the nutrients and the chamber next to it is cheato that's less then half of what I had I just cut it back because I couldn't get my hand in there anymore but I will tell you this cyano and diatoms and funny colored algea are something that almost every single reef keeper I know has gone through on a new tank I still get a little diatom outbreak every now and again in my algea chamber just try and boost your bio filter and keep exporting nutrients aka skim waterchanges chaeto etc and it will take care of itself and snails do help too

 

[Sir_Andros]

I have two snail 5 hermit crabs and a redhead goby

 

[Zachary.gingell]

What type of snails?

 

[Sir_Andros]

Whatever your basic snail is i only paid 99¢ each

 

[Zachary.gingell]

There is so many basic snails turbos Margaritas trochus nassarius etc could you take a pic?

 

[Sir_Andros]

Here the face

 

[Sir_Andros]

Here ia the shell not sure if that helps

 

[Zachary.gingell]

Yeah that looks like a turbo I would also add 2 maybe 3 cerith snails and 1 or 2 Margarita snails and in a couple weeks or so in that small of a tank you should be all set