Recent Bloom driving me nuts

[mrt24]

I have had this 75gal reef tank for a few years now and about a month ago I started getting this long green and short brown algea crap salad in my tank. I thought it would go away but it hasnt. Added phosphate remover a week ago and it hasnt done much yet. I have loads of snails, hermits, and emeralds and they cant keep up. Tangs pick at it a little but they cant keep up. I have another 20 gal reef tank that I use the same water source for changes and there are no issues there. Fish SPS, LPS, and Soft corals are all doing fine. Water is clean, its just ugly and making me very angry. If anyone can tell me how to get rid of this quickly that would be fantastic.

 

[Downbeach]

There has to be a source of nutrients for it to grow. Are you using RO/DI water? What other devices are you using, i.e. skimmer, reactor's, etc.? Has there been a change in your lighting recently?

 

[skinz78]

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[skinz78]

Now with that being said lol, I'm having the same issue and currently winning with the combined use of a few different methods.

How big is your tank?

If your tank is bigger than say 75g then I suggest adding a Acanthurus type tang, they seem to eat the hair algae quite well.

How dry is your skimmate?

How often do you do water changes?

 

[steamer51]

I have similar algae in my tank and it helps to manually remove as much as I can. It peels off the rocks in large clumps and I hold it together until out of the tank so it doesn't drift off in small pieces. I understand that this doesn't solve the cause (overfeeding in my case) but it removes most of it to give the CUC a better chance to keep up.

 

[hscoert]

Manual removal, good water quality, good lighting with lots of flow, and a good water change routine is going to be your best bet. Also try to avoid overfeeding as this will only encourage more algae growth....

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

What type of lighting do you use?

 

[twisted]

I added a long spine urchin to clean my tank up when I had an outbreak. It did an incredible job and now keeps the rocks clean and feeds on algae sheets. I also found it to be very graceful around my corals and not a bulldozer like turbos. Most important you need to find the nute source to prevent


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