nidding Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Hello all. I'm trying to figure out what this algae (or combination of) this is, and how to get rid of it. Hope someone can help https://flic.kr/p/pHDGXk'>https://flic.kr/p/pHDGXk'>DSC_1232 by https://www.flickr.com/people/85695022@N03/'>jonas_sandager, on Flickr I don't have much dissolved nutrients in the water column and am running phosban in a reactor. Link to comment
brandon429 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Can kill w peroxide You have the classic scenario of obligate hitchhiker invasion, something that was a potential on the live rock or coral hard surfaces or snail shells brought in Doesn't take excess nutrients, just takes some, and water and light and no direct predation. Imo you wouldnt even consider nutrients in dealing with this or any other obligate hitchhiker, that indicates sheer mass kill then it physically can't come back until you re import it non obligates are green hair algae, cyano Those groups are so ubiquitous they can infest any body of water and as such are recurring balances for tanks. contrast that to invasive macro algae, or valonia, or dinos. you cannot get those without import, even in waters of 2.0 phosphate, your brush algae included as obligates we have excellent before and after pics of your type of algae, i think there's no better way to beat it. its a 7 day turnaround. takes a week after treatment to work,for the first three days it appears to have not worked Link to comment
nidding Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Thanks for the comment, Brandon. I am considering that route for a "cure". Do you have a link for the specifics in this approach? In tank dosing or removing all rocks? I guess that the entire water column is contaminated so a full system treatment is necessary? Also, on another forum it has been ID'ed as some type of lyngbya, which might not react as hoped with peroxide. Does anyone here have experience with that algae, or bacteria, rather? Link to comment
brandon429 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Before committing we do a prediction and test imo, the substrate (all hard surfaces) is infected and no water treatment will matter need to remove one test rock and apply peroxide from brand new unopened bottle must be brand new apply to bad area let sit in the air 4 mins cooking then rinse put back in tank should die in 5 days turn white I think problems you read were either: top water not spot dosing, works bad for brush algae or grow back deemed a treatment fail, rarely does one treatment fix long term takes re work to undo what we let encroach. You'll like what the test run does, post us follow up pics Link to comment
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