Algae issues

coker98 · 03/09/2011, 01:04 PM

Im not really new to the hobby but could use the help nonetheless.

I am having what seems to be between a bad diatom bloom with a cross of cyanobacteria.

I say this because the algae is creating a mat of algae when the lights are on and it can get pretty dense but it also has the signature nitrogen bubbles from a cyano bloom.

Is there a such thing as brown/golden cyanobacteria?

My nitrates are reading at .5ppm, phosphate????, pH at 8.0 to 8.2, alk at 300, and temp is between 79* to 81*.

Thanks,

tchndie · 03/09/2011, 07:50 PM

I had the same problem not to long ago. I just use red slime remover and its gone and hasn't come back! good luck!

coker98 · 03/09/2011, 07:55 PM

Yeah........ I heard that is a temporary fix and it eventually comes back. You are not fixing the original problem, you are just masking it.

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03/09/2011, 01:04 PM	#1
coker98 Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 594	Algae issues Im not really new to the hobby but could use the help nonetheless. I am having what seems to be between a bad diatom bloom with a cross of cyanobacteria. I say this because the algae is creating a mat of algae when the lights are on and it can get pretty dense but it also has the signature nitrogen bubbles from a cyano bloom. Is there a such thing as brown/golden cyanobacteria? My nitrates are reading at .5ppm, phosphate????, pH at 8.0 to 8.2, alk at 300, and temp is between 79* to 81*. Thanks,

03/09/2011, 07:50 PM	#2
tchndie Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Angus,ON Posts: 335	I had the same problem not to long ago. I just use red slime remover and its gone and hasn't come back! good luck! __________________ Current Setting up 250G Mixed reef tank, 125G sump, Refugium, skimmer Bubbleking 200, I am using a aquactinics constellation 7 bulb fixture , 4 tunze 6105 power heads, barracuda pump. Everything is hooked up to my Neptune Apex. Fish are ,mated pair oynx clowns, naso tang,Sohal Tang, Lieutenant Tang,Achilles tang, Powdwer blue tang, Horseshoe Tang, Indian ocean orange striped mimic tang, Magnificant foxface, fairy wrasse, cleaner wrasse, six line wrasse, carpenter flasher wrasse,10 green chromis, pistol shrimp, 12 cleaner shrimps, 1 blood shrimp,frog spawn, branching hammer, devils hand, colt coral, leather cabbage coral, leather kenea tree, 2 open brain, green plate coral, mushrooms, GSP, orange crush acan 50 heads,and 18 different sps frags and and a couple of SPS colonies. I am probably missing some corals lol!!

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03/09/2011, 07:55 PM	#3
coker98 Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 594	Yeah........ I heard that is a temporary fix and it eventually comes back. You are not fixing the original problem, you are just masking it. Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk