Good or bad algae???

[rfny75]

Hi, my 72g has been cycling for the past 3+ weeks, the water parameters are pretty good. I started turning on the halides about 4-6 hours/day, then yellow stuff started growing on the live rock as well as other red and purple coraline algae. Not sure if this yellow algae is good or bad? Pic attached.

Thanks!

 

[drperetz]

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No worries. Normal occurrence. Your tank is going through some algae phases.

 

[rfny75]

Thanks for the reply and info!

 

[EXPEDITION]

Could b green coraline i got green coraline in my reef.

 

[drperetz]

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Hey enjoy this great forum...
U can find a lot of useful material to read on anything that u might see in ur new system.

Sorry if u already posted this but:
What are you water parameters, equipment ( lights, skimmer, any tap water filters, weight of ur rock, sand or no sand).

We like to know everything.:Hydrogen:

 

[rfny75]

Sure, I can enter my tank info, where do you post it here on this website so it appears with every message you send?

 

[drperetz]

u can

u can just post it...

And repeat ur tank specifications in ur signature...U can find that in USER CP.

:spin:

 

[rfny75]

Ok, I edited the signature and put all the info in there, lets see if this works

 

[marki24]

to me it looks like green coraline. Dont worry about it i have plenty in my tank.

 

[nanoreefer22]

3 weeks into the cycling stage, I doubt it's going to be green coraline. If it was a little later on it just might be, but chances are you'll see it on the glass before the rocks. I think it's more likely a algae from the tank cycling. It probably won't go away, but later on as the tank matures it will be covered by real coraline algae.

-Kris

 

[DevIouS]

With that pic it's hard to give you a fair suggestion as to what it is.
All the rocks look green.

You mention you started growing red & purple coraline.... is the one pictured soft to the touch? Can it peel off or blow away?

 

[DevIouS]

3 weeks into the cycling stage, I doubt it's going to be green coraline. .

You still have it in you......

 

[rfny75]

I just touched the algae, it's not soft at all and it's stuck to the rock, not something you can just peel off by hand.

 

[nanoreefer22]

You still have it in you......

:funnypost Of course...I still got a tank after almost a year...of course i got it in me :hug:

 

[nanoreefer22]

I just touched the algae, it's not soft at all and it's stuck to the rock, not something you can just peel off by hand.

No neccesarily coraline algae. If you notice in some other threads people will say you have high phosphates when you have a green coating of algae on the panes of glass, identical (it seems) to what you have pictured. I think it's the same algae just that it's on your rocks. Coralline comes later with maturity of the tank.

Any pictures of the other algae your talking about and a full tank shot?

 

[DevIouS]

I just touched the algae, it's not soft at all and it's stuck to the rock, not something you can just peel off by hand.

Hmmmmm:scratch:


Not sure why there is mention of green algae when you stated it was yellow.:smash:

 

[rfny75]

Sure, let me take a couple of pics, BRB

 

[rfny75]

Here you go

 

[donald_202]

nice set up on the rocks !! i like it a lot

 

[donald_202]

what kind of rocks are you using?