Brownish Green Algae on Sand Powdery- Can't Get rid of

[fishnugget1]

Red Sea Reefer 750. Running refugium. UV
Constant algae on glass.

Phosphates .06. Nitrates 8
I have tried everything. Lowering lights intensity. Turning off T5 and just using Radion Gen 5- Pro. Cyno Treatment. Constant cleaning of sand to have it return 3 hours later. Peroxide Dosing. Adding different bacteria's. Added Pods.

Nothing has helped. Do not want to restart tank. Did that a year and 1/2 ago because of same issue. Cleaning eveything well and replaced sand.

Any ideas. I am about to give up.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Can we see a pic of your tank? A 6 month old tank is still very new and still going through algae phases. In my opinion, it takes about 2 years for a tank to balance out properly.

Maybe I interpret incorrectly, but seems you have expectation to have no algae issue at all? Why? it is part of the hobby, we all face it.

 

[kevgib67]

^ what @Mr. Mojo Rising said ( great Doors reference Mojo!) . My tank is over 2 years old and I clean the glass about once every week. The first 6 months about every other day. What you are experiencing is normal and will improve with maturity. Hang in there.

 

[fishnugget1]

Tank was 2 years old with this issue. I did a tank clean 15 months ago and issues came back. This is from a mature tank. I clean my glass every other day. This is not my first reef. Had 1 for 6 years and never encountered this.

 

[kevgib67]

Oh, sorry I saw in a post above that it was 6 months.

 

[fishnugget1]

NP

 

[fishnugget1]

Will Vibrant Help. I have pro & con

 

[SWFT]

Will Vibrant Help. I have pro & con

I would stay away from Vibrant. It might help with your issue but it may also cause another issue to appear. I used vibrant to eradicate one algae issue and it cause another issue to appear that was much harder to get rid of.

What biological and mechanical filtration are you using? Maybe your parameters look normal because algae consumes the excess nutrients and the test does not show any issues. Do you have UV or scrubber?

 

[fishnugget1]

i Have a UV and refugium

 

[fishnugget1]

Still cannot get rid of

 

[Cthulukelele]

It will be much much easier for people to help if they get a photo of the issue. Brownish algae can be a few things.

 

[fishnugget1]

 

[RBarth]

I'm in the same boat. It's maddening. 3 year old tank.

 

[blecki]

Wouldn't even call that an issue. Is it harming anything?

 

[RBarth]

Think all depends on what's important to you. For me a clean sandbed is just as important as corals. Sounds dumb I know but I can't help it. My corals look great, fish are happy but constant film algea and brown sand keep me in a knot. Lol.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

It's hard to tell, of course, but the brown on the sand is likely to be cyanobacteria, second option is dinos.

 

[blecki]

Pretty green to be any of those, I'd wager just ordinary film algae.