Ugly Tanks!

[ReeferMaddness843]

Some funky green algae/cyano that took over. Finally beat it, then started popping seams at top of tank eurobracing.
Algae junk:

After clean:

 

[leptang]

I'm working on it... Dinoflagellates are a nightmare!

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Oh the dreaded “D” word! I just beat my case here in the last couple weeks. Lost all (8) but 2 fish (pair of clowns) in the treatment. Apparently my math was off on my dosing. But, bright side, Dinos are gone and can restock accordingly. Even GsP looked like junk. All coral but one sirvived, and that was due to the Dinos, not me. Monti cap took a big hit, glad I didn’t pull it, it’s coming back!!
Mine was caused by low nutrients when treating with vibrant. Now I just overfeed the tank heavily as my tank has the issue of constantly bottoming NO3 out.

YOU CAN BEAT IT!!

I'm working on it... Dinoflagellates are a nightmare!

 

[leptang]

Oh the dreaded “D” word! I just beat my case here in the last couple weeks. Lost all (8) but 2 fish (pair of clowns) in the treatment. Apparently my math was off on my dosing. But, bright side, Dinos are gone and can restock accordingly. Even GsP looked like junk. All coral but one sirvived, and that was due to the Dinos, not me. Monti cap took a big hit, glad I didn’t pull it, it’s coming back!!
Mine was caused by low nutrients when treating with vibrant. Now I just overfeed the tank heavily as my tank has the issue of constantly bottoming NO3 out.

YOU CAN BEAT IT!!

Lol yeah I almost had the dino's defeated but I had to leave my tank for a emergency, I was gone for a week. I got back and got a bad flu and was down for another week. Nutrients hit 0 lost a green monti cap some acans and a hammer. Yeah dinoflagellates are evil.

 

[fish farmer]

Summer 2012, when I was letting my hair grow.

Many years later and many haircuts and WC's.

 

[norfolkgarden]

Thats quite the transformation. Howd you get rid of the green hair algae?

Hand pulling, time (3 months) 5 turbos, 6 trochus, some random hermits (7 total?)
lol, and lots of aluminum beads phosphate remover in strainer baskets in the 2 Marineland 400 HOB filters.

Keep in mind the snails just give everything a haircut.

The only way to remove that amount of phosphate is to export it by GFO, aluminum beads or an algae turf scrubber.

 

[norfolkgarden]

Im having a MAJOR issue with hair algae in a 55g of mine. I dont understand whats its issue is, it was fine for a couple years and then bam, ugly. Any suggestions for me?

Maybe. I only have softies and Frogspawn. If you have more delicate corals, I would stick with an algae turf scrubber, and of course hand pulling as much as is reasonable.

Do you have a sand bed?

How often do you clean it?


Getting rid of ours,

Hand pulling, time (3 months) 5 turbos, 6 trochus, some random hermits (7 total?)
lol, and lots of aluminum beads phosphate remover in strainer baskets in the 2 Marineland 400 HOB filters.

Keep in mind the snails just give everything a haircut.

The only way to remove that amount of phosphate is to export it by GFO, aluminum beads or an algae turf scrubber.