What algae is this?

[ttocso]

Hi all, this is my first post so apologies if I have not done this correctly??

could anyone help me with the type of algae this is on my sand bed and how best to get rid of it?

phosphate: 0.08(a little high and working on it)
Nitrate: 5ppm
Rodi water used reading at 0 TDS.
All fish accounted for
Oversized skimmer for the size of my tank

I have good flow in my tank. Not really any algae on my rocks. Tank has been running for about 2 years.

I use a tirkey Bastet weekly to blast it, and within a couple of days it is back.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Looks like simple diatoms. Just a part of the tank. Likely due to the elevated phosphates.
Do you have any sand sifting fish and inverts? They usually keep the algae from settling on the bottom.

 

[ttocso]

Thanks for the reply. Other than a bunch of snails and a few cleaner shrimp no sand sifting fish.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Look into nassarius snails. They dig through the sand. They won’t eat the diatoms but they do help to make it look clean. Gobies are also good for this purpose.

 

[ttocso]

Many thanks, will do!

 

[Sharkbait19]

Very nice looking scape and fish by the way! How big is it?

 

[GHOSTLY]

Hi all, this is my first post so apologies if I have not done this correctly??

could anyone help me with the type of algae this is on my sand bed and how best to get rid of it?

phosphate: 0.08(a little high and working on it)
Nitrate: 5ppm
Rodi water used reading at 0 TDS.
All fish accounted for
Oversized skimmer for the size of my tank

I have good flow in my tank. Not really any algae on my rocks. Tank has been running for about 2 years.

I use a tirkey Bastet weekly to blast it, and within a couple of days it is back.

either diatoms or dino but i doubt its dino. Get some nassarius snails thry stir the sandbed or get sand sifting starfish

 

[ttocso]

Very nice looking scape and fish by the way! How big is it?

Thanks! It is a 65 gallon tank. Once I did this algae problem I need to figure out why my Sps growth is soo slow…tomorrow’s battle

 

[ttocso]

either diatoms or dino but i doubt its dino. Get some nassarius snails thry stir the sandbed or get sand sifting starfish

Thanks yes will definitely get the snails. A bit concerned with a starfish as I have 2 bumblebee shrimp in the tank to rid my asterina starfish problem!

 

[Sharkbait19]

I’d say get a pistol shrimp but they like to mess with coral frags on the sandbed though.