Having trouble with algae

canes52 · 01/03/2010, 02:44 PM

I've been having trouble with a brown fuzzy algae growing o my rocks and have grown on dead parts of my sps corals. I have an aqua euro skimmer that does an ok job and I use phosgaurd but wat is the problem and how do I fix it I leave my lights on for 7 hours. I have dual 14k metal halides and 2 t5 for my 55 gallon tank.

Imhotep75 · 01/03/2010, 03:20 PM

well i have had a reef for 10 months and i had the same problem i bought a sea slug to eat the nasty algae but that was only a fix when he ate it all he died so i have a 44 gal corner tank with a 250 mh and i have atinic lights and moon lights 380 watt 24 inch coral life light i just adjusted the 1 mh i think to 8 hrs and the atinic are around 10 hrs ad moon light are on all the time you just might have to much light what are your watts per gallon i am at 8 i think and that brown nasty stuff is not a nice sight i hope that i helped you a little bit also my mh light is 10000k

divewsharks · 01/03/2010, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by canes52

I've been having trouble with a brown fuzzy algae growing o my rocks and have grown on dead parts of my sps corals. I have an aqua euro skimmer that does an ok job and I use phosgaurd but wat is the problem and how do I fix it I leave my lights on for 7 hours. I have dual 14k metal halides and 2 t5 for my 55 gallon tank.

how old is your tank? what are the nitrates? what kind of water do you use for topoff and waterchanges? what kind of bioload do you have?

Imhotep75 · 01/09/2010, 04:14 PM

tank is about 10 months old nitrates have always been zero i use rodi water i have a heavy bio load 5 fish and a brittle star and 3 green crabs tons of snails hermit crabs and about 10 mushroons some sps and 1 lps xenia blue and waving hand sorry it took so long to reply i didnt know how to serch and i figured it out so let me know if oyu hav e any more questions later

01/03/2010, 02:44 PM	#1
canes52 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 92	Having trouble with algae I've been having trouble with a brown fuzzy algae growing o my rocks and have grown on dead parts of my sps corals. I have an aqua euro skimmer that does an ok job and I use phosgaurd but wat is the problem and how do I fix it I leave my lights on for 7 hours. I have dual 14k metal halides and 2 t5 for my 55 gallon tank.

01/03/2010, 03:20 PM	#2
Imhotep75 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pulaski Virginia Posts: 33	well i have had a reef for 10 months and i had the same problem i bought a sea slug to eat the nasty algae but that was only a fix when he ate it all he died so i have a 44 gal corner tank with a 250 mh and i have atinic lights and moon lights 380 watt 24 inch coral life light i just adjusted the 1 mh i think to 8 hrs and the atinic are around 10 hrs ad moon light are on all the time you just might have to much light what are your watts per gallon i am at 8 i think and that brown nasty stuff is not a nice sight i hope that i helped you a little bit also my mh light is 10000k

01/09/2010, 04:14 PM	#4
Imhotep75 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pulaski Virginia Posts: 33	tank is about 10 months old nitrates have always been zero i use rodi water i have a heavy bio load 5 fish and a brittle star and 3 green crabs tons of snails hermit crabs and about 10 mushroons some sps and 1 lps xenia blue and waving hand sorry it took so long to reply i didnt know how to serch and i figured it out so let me know if oyu hav e any more questions later