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[anthony27]

I must say I am a little ticked off this is showing up in the tank I am running phosband and carbon in a reactor and also in a marine land bio wheel filter all open. what is this, I just swapped out my bulbs to 10k and 2 new atinics. any idea

 

[anthony27]

I thought I would throw this in from searching for the algie on google

 

[KathyC]

Bio-wheel? They tend to be called 'nitrate factories'..what is your nitrate reading?
Are you running a skimmer on the tank?


argh! lose that other picture!!! lol

 

[anthony27]

yeah I am running a coralife skimmer and the nitrates are zero I tested 2 days ago. The tank is doing good just this started to pop up what is this

 

[prattreef]

It looks like a common and IME harmless filamentous algae that appears in totally healthy systems. I've never seen it get out of control. BTW, really nice coralline on the rock work.

 

[anthony27]

pratt comming from you I take that into high standards thank you so much

 

[dubs]

it look like hair algea an emerald crab would make that lunch i would worry more about that little brown guy on that rock if it what i think it is it will take over ur tank

 

[xvinny631x]

I used to have this problem till i stocked up on tangs... Awesome coraline growth btw!

 

[anthony27]

lol i should buy a tang but i have a scooter blenie so he should be eating it i want a invery bot ui dont know what to get.

 

[SevTT]

It looks like a common and IME harmless filamentous algae that appears in totally healthy systems. I've never seen it get out of control. BTW, really nice coralline on the rock work.

+1

Plus, in my tank, it gets constantly cropped by emerald crabs, hermits, and clownfish. Recycling waste into food is always good. %)

Small tufts of hair algae poking out from the rocks here and there == perfectly normal.

 

[SevTT]

I thought I would throw this in from searching for the algie on google

I had a tank of about a billion guppies that was like that when I was a kid. Duckweed on top, green soup on the bottom, and hundreds of flashing, inbred fish. Only illumination was from natural sunlight, and the only food it received was from the duckweed and the countless insects that would alight in it and be devoured. (The tank was kept outside, in a screened-in porch.)

Strangely, it was wiped out due to a hurricane, not my own neglect or a tank crash, but by then I'd basically been ignoring it except to top it off (usually from the hose) every week or two for the entire summer..