discordja April 28, 2006 Share April 28, 2006 I've a 75 now up for 3 months. I stabilized the water parameters and things are mostly trouble free. I change 10 gallons a week. Params: Nitrate .5 Nitrite 0 Amo 0 Calc 380 Alk 9 dkh SG 1.026 I changed old bulbs and licked my fits of Cyano and a green carpet/hair algae but now I've got a surge of brown carpet like algae growin all over the rocks, spreading rapidly, and making a real mess of things. Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F&Fmgr April 28, 2006 Share April 28, 2006 I've a 75 now up for 3 months. I stabilized the water parameters and things are mostly trouble free. I change 10 gallons a week. Params: Nitrate .5 Nitrite 0 Amo 0 Calc 380 Alk 9 dkh SG 1.026 I changed old bulbs and licked my fits of Cyano and a green carpet/hair algae but now I've got a surge of brown carpet like algae growin all over the rocks, spreading rapidly, and making a real mess of things. Anyone have any ideas? can you post a pic of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discordja April 28, 2006 Author Share April 28, 2006 Not a great pic but hopefully enough to tell. It looks a little red here but that is short brown algae like it's a layer of carpet over the rock. So it's neither the ugly diatom or cyano. and it's growing like mad. A bit easier to tell how it's growing in the little cracks and crevices and such Took a test of the topoff water as well to be sure it's not adding extra nutrients to the tank as well. It's registering 0 nitrates and 1 on the total disolved solvents count. Also tested to make sure that I was right on the nitrates for the tank and it's around .2-.5 ppm atm Any chance this can be managed with just some more algae grazers? I've not a ton of detrivores in the tank because of the barebottom and I tend to remove the waste before it has a chance to break down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveoutlaw April 28, 2006 Share April 28, 2006 2 Questions: 1. Are you using RODI water? 2. Is your tank exposed to sunlight where it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discordja April 29, 2006 Author Share April 29, 2006 Steve, Yes on 1. I change about 10 gallons of RODI every week and top off with RODI a couple of times a week No on 2. Probably as far away from a windows as it can possibly get. I'm gonna spend the week with the lights off and a about 40 gallons of water changes .. and see what that does for me. Do any snails or hermits eat this stuff? Maybe larger turbo snails? Everything is healthy and corals are really growing well so there are certainly worse things to have than a little bit of nuisance algae. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Magnolia April 29, 2006 Share April 29, 2006 Have you tested for phosphates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discordja May 14, 2006 Author Share May 14, 2006 Ah I can finally respond to this. I finally got a test done for phosphates and i came back with a giant 0 ppm. So I'm at a real loss here. This algae is unstoppable and it's taking over lots of rock surface area and I have no idea how to stem the tide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveoutlaw May 14, 2006 Share May 14, 2006 Steve - I'm fighting the same thing. I've been using a turkey baster to blow it off the rocks to the overflow can get it and send it to the skimmer. Problem is, it keeps coming back. I'm at a loss as well because my water params are great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex wlazlak May 14, 2006 Share May 14, 2006 my friend had stuff like that and he used some of the red sea redalgea remover stuff and it went away. i dont know if you want to use it but it should work. all of his stuff is okay and the algea gone. i think its a type of cyno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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