What is this algae??? It's everywhere!!!

[Mr_Banana_Pants]

What is this red algae??? I did have a cyano problem that I thought I took care of, trying to reduce nitrates with refugium and bio pellets.

 

[alex.mccann99]

How's your flow? Need to syphon it out of there. Get a good CUC, there are some hermits that will eat red slime I believe. What are your water parameters, lighting schedule, feeding schedule?

 

[Humblefish]

Could be Lyngbya spp., a different type of cyanobacteria. Manual removal is the best way to handle it.

 

[alex.mccann99]

Can always try Hydrogen Peroxide dosing for awhile. Google it and you'll find info about it. I did this to get rid of Dynos. Doesn't hurt corals or fish and it did work.

 

[Mr_Banana_Pants]

My nitrates are currently around 75, having a hard time getting them down. That's why I began running bio pellets. My phosphates are at 0.08. I currently run my lights 10 hours on Blues with 6 hours on whites. I feed seaweed everyday, and either pellets or Frozen every 2 to 3 days.

I did treat a cyano outbreak with hydrogen peroxide and it seem to kill it all

 

[EriksOasis]

Use red slime remover do a large water change first removing as much as you can manually. How often do you do water changes? They should be done weekly until you get nitrates under control.

 

[Mr_Banana_Pants]

Use red slime remover do a large water change first removing as much as you can manually. How often do you do water changes? They should be done weekly until you get nitrates under control.

Seems like no matter how many water changes I do, or how large I still can't get the nitrates down.... nitrates for fresh salt mix is 0.1

 

[Sterlingg]

If accessible, pull as much of that gunk off before it reaches your corals.. they will have a veryh negative affect on them...

The sooner the better! Best of luck!

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Seems like no matter how many water changes I do, or how large I still can't get the nitrates down.... nitrates for fresh salt mix is 0.1

Pretty sure you shouldn't have nitrates in your fresh mixed salt water.

Scrub. More snails. Possible vibrant aquarium cleaner. Nutrient reduction is just one step in the process.

 

[EriksOasis]

Have you tried dosing nopox to reduce nitrates?

 

[New York Reef Aquatic]

what kind of water are you using? Tap or RODI?

 

[Mr_Banana_Pants]

Tried no3po4x, but wasn't religious enough with same time dosing everyday. That's why I changed to bio pellets, same concept without the daily dosing... using RODI water, 0-1 tds out of RO membrane, 0 tds out of the DI resin

 

[Rakie]

if you have no3 in your salt your salt is bad -- get new salt, your salt has been compromised and may directly be fueling algae. TO reiterate, the current salt your using is no good due to some unknown reason -- toss it, get a new box of salt.

 

[Pockets]

algae sucks I have been battling it for a almost a good year now hair and turf algae. water change every week. phosphate removers carbon dosing plucking it out put a blenny in there that mysteriously disappeared he was fat and healthy with plenty to eat and one day he was there next I haven't seen him in a month so I'm assuming he's decomposed somewhere replenishing the algae he ate up lol. yesterday I pulled a rock and soaked it in 50 50 tank water and peroxide for a little test and the turf and hair algae is vanishing. but I'm pretty sure my rock is just packed with phosphates that's about all I can narrow it down too. I have had it for almost 10 yrs and there was a long stint of tank neglect when I traveled for work. but still In the fight its have to fun of owning a tank you get out of it what u put into it.

 

[Mr_Banana_Pants]

Algae does suck. My biggest fear is losing one of my two favorite corals though. I have an Aussie gold torch and a chocolate torch that I absolutely love and would die if I lost!!!

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

If any LFS nearby your house that selling good premix salt water then buy from them (do your own test with their water first to make sure it's good), then just buy and do 3x water change a week, your nitrate will be down in no time.

 

[Hans-Werner]

The surface seems to be normal slime cyanos (Oscillatoria?). Remove them with a hose to see whether there are other hair algae or Lyngbya below them. Continue to remove them with a hose during water changes until they stay away.

 

[Carley]

Try cyano-x. Worked great for me!

 

[EriksOasis]

And red slime remover is just a bandaid to a bigger problem. Increase flow. Feed less. Frequent water changes. Grow some macro algae. These will all help with reducing nitrates.

 

[Carley]

And red slime remover is just a bandaid to a bigger problem. Increase flow. Feed less. Frequent water changes. Grow some macro algae. These will all help with reducing nitrates.

True... but cyano is actually a bacteria. It needs to be removed Either way.