What type of algae is this. Overtaking my tank

[LordNecro]

Been dealing with algae for a few weeks and it’s gotten way out of hand recently. Tank is a little over 3 months old. I tried manually removing and scraped it off the glass a week ago but it’s taking over my rock. At first I thought it would be okay and hoped my cuc would deal with it but I haven’t seen anything pick at it at all. What can I do?

 

[MetaKnight101]

You appear to have a bad case of GHA (Green Hair Algae). From my experience, this happens when nitrates are too high, and not enough water changes are being made or having an inadequate CUC. If you want to get rid of it immediately I would use a toothbrush to scrub it off and start increasing water changes.

 

[brandon429]

How many gallons

we have an easy way to fix that if the tank isn’t too large

 

[LordNecro]

How many gallons

we have an easy way to fix that if the tank isn’t too large

20 gallon nano

 

[shamin]

I would pull out the rock and scrub it with a toothbrush and run some tank water over the rock as you scrub to remove it.

 

[lilkiwi930]

I had this same problem. I did more water changes and fishes that eat it. Cant remember if it was my kole tang that eats it. But it worked wonders

 

[brandon429]

There is no better fix than a full rip clean top to bottom, new water, clean sand no invasion

in two hours work you circumvent months or weeks of wait, looks for the tank you dont want


you aren’t required to do water only waiting. You have the option of fixed by nine pm tonite. We have a 36 page thread of it using a certain cleaning order, this separate one below has nice pics on the last page of a good clean and skip cycle rebuild.

all of the reefs cleaned there, skip cycle full cleans.


There isn’t a better fix for a nano, it reverse-ages them to cause a reef storm in just the right way. AmaleeC was resolved on the last page, she owns 3x that size tank and opted for the hard work now vs maybe something works by november option set

scan down this last page of rip cleans to see our most recent ulva invasion defeats, and new tank uglies defeats.

Reef2Reef Pest algae challenge thread hydrogen peroxide

Tank filled and was almost cloudless :D Turned on the klir roller and added a filter sock and it was clear in 2 hours. Made a makeshift frag rack as I cannot bring all rock back. Scrubbed each frag plug with a stainless steel brush or remounted depending how bad the plug was. Grabbed a couple...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[JRAD]

Sometimes I can’t understand what you are trying to say

 

[JRAD]

There is no better fix than a full rip clean top to bottom, new water, clean sand no invasion

in two hours work you circumvent months or weeks of wait, looks for the tank you dont want


you aren’t required to do water only waiting. You have the option of fixed by nine pm tonite. We have a 36 page thread of it using a certain cleaning order, this separate one below has nice pics on the last page of a good clean and skip cycle rebuild.

all of the reefs cleaned there, skip cycle full cleans.


There isn’t a better fix for a nano, it reverse-ages them to cause a reef storm in just the right way. AmaleeC was resolved on the last page, she owns 3x that size tank and opted for the hard work now vs maybe something works by november option set

scan down this last page of rip cleans to see our most recent ulva invasion defeats, and new tank uglies defeats.

Reef2Reef Pest algae challenge thread hydrogen peroxide

Tank filled and was almost cloudless :D Turned on the klir roller and added a filter sock and it was clear in 2 hours. Made a makeshift frag rack as I cannot bring all rock back. Scrubbed each frag plug with a stainless steel brush or remounted depending how bad the plug was. Grabbed a couple...

www.reef2reef.com

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[JRAD]

That is confusing.....

 

[shamin]

That is confusing.....

Pretty much means to pull the rocks out and scrub them and then run water thru the tank to clean the sand. Then add rocks back along with new water.

 

[brandon429]

Jrad
your writing is unclear, didn’t make sense given the pages of work examples following the tank cleaning description

 

[JRAD]

Pretty much means to pull the rocks out and scrub them and then run water thru the tank to clean the sand. Then add rocks back along with new water.

Thx -shamin!

 

[shamin]

Thx -shamin!

Make sure you rinse the sand with distilled or RO water after tap goes thru it

 

[brandon429]

everything is brown...

Hello all I was hoping somebody could help guide me through an algae issue Im having with a fairly new tank. This is my first attempt at a reef tank, I just have a tiny 15 Litre nano tank. The tank finished cycling about 6 weeks ago, levels are all 0 for nitrites, ammonia and nitrates. I am...

www.reef2reef.com

I bet a rip clean is coming up here, and this tank is perfect for it

quick results

 

[MrDLHughesY]

3 days of blackout and get some trophy’s snails. Then keep on top of your husbandry.

 

[KingTideCorals]

Get to manual removal first no doubt! Best success stories all talk about the concentrated effort to remove manually as much as possible! Good luck! No doubt Green Hair Algae.