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The complete and total solution is three hours good work and a full tank takedown and cleaning, total reset without recycle your reef will look brand new and is simply calling for mass export.
Would the masses do that? No
They'd leave the algae in place and perform one or more tasks. Your pics reveal details about the non shown parts of the tank.
The given bioload from a full tank shot and your export measures line up to require full export cleaning every X numbers of days, X being the number of days either back to setup or last mass cleaning
The cleaning stops months of non catch up involving the removal of whole waste proteins.
We'd spot treat the frags and have them free of algae in 24 hrs
In one session we could reset your entire reef to brand new if partial actions reveal themselves as a waste of time. I would then link this thread to the other threads having just done it. Kimbas nano reef forum post here about bryopsis takeover is specifically one of them.
Let's clean your entire system in one fell swoop. Anything shy of that fuels the retail market
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Would the masses do that? No
They'd leave the algae in place and perform one or more tasks. Your pics reveal details about the non shown parts of the tank.
The given bioload from a full tank shot and your export measures line up to require full export cleaning every X numbers of days, X being the number of days either back to setup or last mass cleaning
The cleaning stops months of non catch up involving the removal of whole waste proteins.
We'd spot treat the frags and have them free of algae in 24 hrs
In one session we could reset your entire reef to brand new if partial actions reveal themselves as a waste of time. I would then link this thread to the other threads having just done it. Kimbas nano reef forum post here about bryopsis takeover is specifically one of them.
Let's clean your entire system in one fell swoop. Anything shy of that fuels the retail market
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Nothing to sell, pure hard work on your part the easy part is seeing kimbas thread
In large threads where we fix algae condition this is shown to be the best option, good export cleaning, although tons of easier modes exist that leave organic waste stores in place.
The type of algae you have is associated with environments that have stored up sandbeds or darker pocketing typically
Maybe some good fish bio loading, or really good feeding the corals may like but is contributing to waste stores in the tank. Full cleaning is a simple reset, and we like the after shots where the reef looks all crisp and brand new. Post fts curious to see alt details
The chance this aquarium is a bare bottom reef tank is 5%
In large threads where we fix algae condition this is shown to be the best option, good export cleaning, although tons of easier modes exist that leave organic waste stores in place.
The type of algae you have is associated with environments that have stored up sandbeds or darker pocketing typically
Maybe some good fish bio loading, or really good feeding the corals may like but is contributing to waste stores in the tank. Full cleaning is a simple reset, and we like the after shots where the reef looks all crisp and brand new. Post fts curious to see alt details
The chance this aquarium is a bare bottom reef tank is 5%
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Excellent tank if it was mine I'd simply lower light intensity over the uncalcified areas, purple ones don't take on as much algae they compete against it, use spot treating to clean off each frag outside the tank and put back clean, drain the reef for a 60% water change and I'd hand scrape and remove all algae off the back wall until fully restored. I'd spray that back wall area with peroxide to burn off leftovers, wipe it all out really good with paper towels and fill back up.
Algae that grows on the glass indicates a water transition phase in its cycle
For sure if you had giant oversized uv, you would be working against grow back. Not required, but a handy cheat for transiting algae
The sandbed looks clean and not typically pocketed w waste, not a huge fish bioload. Lucky it's mostly on the wall that's really nice reef rock. IMO the sandbed contributes only minor to the issue it seems to be a balanced scape to me. Target control needed, and big exports are a breath of fresh air the corals extend next day better than ever.
Algae that grows on the glass indicates a water transition phase in its cycle
For sure if you had giant oversized uv, you would be working against grow back. Not required, but a handy cheat for transiting algae
The sandbed looks clean and not typically pocketed w waste, not a huge fish bioload. Lucky it's mostly on the wall that's really nice reef rock. IMO the sandbed contributes only minor to the issue it seems to be a balanced scape to me. Target control needed, and big exports are a breath of fresh air the corals extend next day better than ever.
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I agree other post are hard to follow. It's hard to tell from your pics but what I think you have is green cyano. And it's a B.... to get rid of. I had this in one of my systems. Traditional cyano removers did nothing. Large amounts of gfo did nothing. Zoezym seemed to help but I could never rid the tank of it. That system got shut down. This was probably 8 years ago so a lot of new products even some from KZ have hit the market. I would look into some of those. I hope you have more success then I did.
