What kind of algae is this?

[Monster reefer]

What kind of algae is this? And how to I remove it for good!

 

[Bunnee911]

Is it just on that rock?

 

[Monster reefer]

No it's on like 4 just on the top I just cleaned my glass but it has a brown hard algae same color covering all the glass.

 

[Tom Blevins]

dinoflagellates? and bubble algae

 

[jsker]

Green hair and bubble algae, what are your No3 and Po4.

 

[Monster reefer]

Everything shows 0

 

[twilliard]

That is looking like dinoflagellates to me
Wouldn't know unless under a microscope

 

[Monster reefer]

The what I thought it is too. But how do I remove it my water does not have any phosphates in it. So I'm not sure what they could be feeding on. If I'm not introducing any In to the aquarium

 

[twilliard]

The what I thought it is too. But how do I remove it my water does not have any phosphates in it. So I'm not sure what they could be feeding on. If I'm not introducing any In to the aquarium

Here is the thing about dinoflagellates
The species that makes that formation had to be introduced at one time.
They are not dependant on no3 or po4
They are single cell organisms
Most will depend on lighting while others feed on microscopic plankton
You can't really remove them as what you are seeing is made up of hundreds and thousands of individual cells.
Actually attempting to remove them can cause tank wide spread

 

[Monster reefer]

Ok what eats it

 

[twilliard]

Ok what eats it

Nothing eats them as they have a toxicity that can harm and kill

 

[twilliard]

Follow us here for a possible solution

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/diatoms-dinos-cyano.252539/page-2#post-2994163

 

[sil40sx]

I have exact same issue with one of my live rock (looks like same amount of what you have as well) last month, I used turkey baster to siphon it. It pops back up after a day or two, but after doing it for about a week, it never came back (knock on wood). I didn't do anything other than that.

My tank is about 6 months old, far from being mature.

 

[Monster reefer]

So I figured out that my rodi unit is giving off bad TDS instead of reading 0-20 it's at like 200 and that's where my proble is. I should be getting new filters in that next couple of days to a week and than I can start making some good water