Algae identification and removal help

CrushtheTurtle · 04/16/2019, 12:20 AM

As you can see this green algae has been growing on my rocks and sand, it's becoming more widespread and not sure what it is or how to get rid of it. Any help appreciated.

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Uncle99 · 04/16/2019, 09:22 AM

Ensure your phosphate is between 0.03-0.07 ppm at all times, if higher, mop up this organic with GFO.

Your lighting looks a bit yellow ish, and if this is true, this would be a contributor to nuisance algae. It may just be the pic and my tablet,

Algae needs light and phosphate to survive. Deprive it!

CrushtheTurtle · 04/16/2019, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Uncle99

Ensure your phosphate is between 0.03-0.07 ppm at all times, if higher, mop up this organic with GFO.

Your lighting looks a bit yellow ish, and if this is true, this would be a contributor to nuisance algae. It may just be the pic and my tablet,

Algae needs light and phosphate to survive. Deprive it!

Thanks, I was battling dinos and my phos/nitrates were 0 so I was actually trying to get them up for a bit, but this algae has been in the tank even when phosphates showed 0. Also light is weird cause I ramped up whites just to take picture. It's a xr15 and I have only been running blues to fight dinos, which have seemingly gone away

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Uncle99 · 04/16/2019, 09:59 AM

Phosphate or nitrate is never 0, always some in the column
Tests can show zero when phosphate is being used up by algae growth.
Only Hanna phosphorus ULR can get down to the virtual undetectable range

Light is fine, just checking

Dino’s go when the level of bacteria that consumes them is present, just give some time

jlmawp · 04/17/2019, 08:35 AM

Man, I feel you on this one. I had some of this growing 6 months back or so, and it is a straight-up ***** to remove. It doesn't pull off the rocks, and I usually ended up moving the rock before the stalks would snap. Very strong!

I believe it's a variety of bubble algae. I just stuck with persistent manual removal and more water changes than usual. It cleared up after 4 months or so.

CrushtheTurtle · 04/17/2019, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by jlmawp

Man, I feel you on this one. I had some of this growing 6 months back or so, and it is a straight-up ***** to remove. It doesn't pull off the rocks, and I usually ended up moving the rock before the stalks would snap. Very strong!

I believe it's a variety of bubble algae. I just stuck with persistent manual removal and more water changes than usual. It cleared up after 4 months or so.

Seriously yeah, the ones in the sand are easy but can't even get at the ones on the rock with tweezers. Thanks!

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04/16/2019, 12:20 AM	#1
CrushtheTurtle Registered Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 151	Algae identification and removal help As you can see this green algae has been growing on my rocks and sand, it's becoming more widespread and not sure what it is or how to get rid of it. Any help appreciated. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

04/16/2019, 09:22 AM	#2
Uncle99 Crab Free Zone Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,906	Ensure your phosphate is between 0.03-0.07 ppm at all times, if higher, mop up this organic with GFO. Your lighting looks a bit yellow ish, and if this is true, this would be a contributor to nuisance algae. It may just be the pic and my tablet, Algae needs light and phosphate to survive. Deprive it!

04/16/2019, 09:59 AM	#4
Uncle99 Crab Free Zone Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,906	Phosphate or nitrate is never 0, always some in the column Tests can show zero when phosphate is being used up by algae growth. Only Hanna phosphorus ULR can get down to the virtual undetectable range Light is fine, just checking Dino’s go when the level of bacteria that consumes them is present, just give some time

04/17/2019, 08:35 AM	#5
jlmawp Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 595	Man, I feel you on this one. I had some of this growing 6 months back or so, and it is a straight-up ***** to remove. It doesn't pull off the rocks, and I usually ended up moving the rock before the stalks would snap. Very strong! I believe it's a variety of bubble algae. I just stuck with persistent manual removal and more water changes than usual. It cleared up after 4 months or so.