White Hairy Material

flyfish4trout · Apr 1, 2012

I have included a picture of this in hopes that someone can verify what this is. This white hairy material is only present on the light facing surface of some of my live rock. It is in lower flow and high flow areas. Tank was set up in December and has been cycled since late Jan or early Feb. Started adding corals in Mid Feb. This white hairy stuff started about 3 weeks ago. I think it may be some type of bacteria. If you know what it is an how to get rid of it I would appreciate any advice. Params are all normal with the exception of salinity creeping up to 1.027 about a month ago when the ATO freaked out.

Thanks.

Loki · Apr 1, 2012

I can't help but I wanted to say that's a good picture!

Reef Breeders · Apr 1, 2012

I have that in my frag tank, and had it in my tank. It usually disappears around the 1 year mark for me, you can try adding hydrogen peroxide, 1ml per ten gallons daily until it goes away, looks like a weaker bacterial algae. Nice acro btw

flyfish4trout · Apr 1, 2012

Thanks for in input anemonekeeprer. I have had a bunch of tanks up and down through the years and I don't remember seeing this in any of them. I just don't want it to take over. Anyone else out there deal with this stuff?