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[Jilly92]

My corals have been doing really good since the dino crash. BUT I'm starting to worry because I started seeing this string algae popping back up (last 2 pics) I've been running a fluval uv sterilizer at night. I'm going to try to put some under a microscope tonight to get a more accurate identification. Maybe I can figure out what I'm doing wrong. I just had a diatom bloom in both tanks as well.

 

[resortez]

All animals look very good & healthy, looks like you have good water flow. Have you tested parameters to see if something is spiking or dropping? What’s your lightings schedule & feeding practices?

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Everything looks good, not sure what the white stuff is.

 

[Jilly92]

Everything looks good, not sure what the white stuff is.

Looks more like red spiderweb hard to get a pic

 

[Sleeping Giant]

I

Looks more like red spiderweb hard to get a pic

I've never heard of that

 

[Rmckoy]

Is that one a jack o lantern ?

 

[Jilly92]

Is that one a jack o lantern ?

Ya

 

[Jilly92]

Ya

I

I've never heard of that

Ya looks like old cobwebs. I see copepods all huddled eating it sometimes

 

[Jilly92]

All animals look very good & healthy, looks like you have good water flow. Have you tested parameters to see if something is spiking or dropping? What’s your lightings schedule & feeding practices?

I do whites on at 9:30am dim on rainy days and turn blues on and whites off at around 5-6. I feed a mixture of pellers,flakes, and frozen krill, frozen only once a week because it causes issues I believe, once a week reefroids as per instructions on bottles. Sometimes lightly overfeed and skip 1-2 feeding days a week. Haven't tested params since 2 weeks. The stuffbon the back of glass has been there for prob 2 months the new strings in front happened over the last 2 weeks. One ballooned up like dino.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Ya looks like old cobwebs. I see copepods all huddled eating it sometimes

Weird

 

[Jilly92]

Everything looks good, not sure what the white stuff is.

The white is a thunderstorms scene I painted on the back haha lightening.

 

[Jilly92]

I do whites on at 9:30am dim on rainy days and turn blues on and whites off at around 5-6. I feed a mixture of pellers,flakes, and frozen krill, frozen only once a week because it causes issues I believe, once a week reefroids as per instructions on bottles. Sometimes lightly overfeed and skip 1-2 feeding days a week. Haven't tested params since 2 weeks. The stuffbon the back of glass has been there for prob 2 months the new strings in front happened over the last 2 weeks. One ballooned up like dino.

Oh and lights off at 9:30pm

 

[Rmckoy]

Ya

I have always had a hard time keeping them .
You must be doing something right ...
very nice

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Looks good!
D

 

[Jilly92]

I have always had a hard time keeping them .
You must be doing something right ...
very nice

Thank you, thats encouraging

 

[Jilly92]

Finally got my sample last night. I was told its ostreopsis Why do i keep getting this algae?? Can someone tell me how to get rid of it permanently? Ive been running a UV sterilizer 12 hrs a night on and off for a month. I will have to get an up to date water test this evening.