Horrible Algae Problems

You didn't mention anything about your filtration in your posts. Do you have a sump or a HOB? Is there a way you can add some chaeto to your system (in the HOB/sump/even in your tank) to help with nitrates and phosphates?

 

Lettuce Eating Nudibranch. They eat hair algae. Also so does a lawnmower blenny. Be careful with the Nudibranch if they die and you dont see it die, it can poison your whole tank.

 

Get a sea hare, they are hair algae munchers!

Also turn all lights off for 3 days, if your tank is near a window or a glass door, cover your tank with a dark sheet or towel.

Do a 20% water change

+1 on the RODI, solves a lot of problems in the long run!

 

I still think it's cyano.....but everyone's advice is true for both types of nuisance algae/ bacteria. Good husbandry WILL pay off in the end. I just won a battle with cyano 4 months in the making. I cut back on my food, increased flow, decreased light, scooped it out. I was using RODI water. It wasn't until I kept a good habit of doing each one of these things every week consistently that I started to see a difference. I'm down to this week where I can only see a mere trace of what was cyano and it's going away with tomorrows water change. I think the biggest difference I saw was when I switched to Spirulina flake (which I swore I'd never use flake) and saw that everyone was gobbling it up faster than I could put it in. Now there's never any leftover food like when I was dropping pellets, and frozen. I still feed with cyclopeze, but now I can feed more generously because there's nothing left over.

 

I have an ro/do unit but a friend of mine who just started his tank didn't so I offered to make water for him-put an wanted add up here and at other forums for RO/DI WATER. You could barter/trade services whatever. You'd be surprised how many reefers are willing to help other wise for a temp fix you could try the API DI TAP FILTER found at MarineDepot. $42.00 I used one for about 2yrs for my 8g.

 

No i definetly no its not cyano i concord that pain before this is green and an inch to an inch and a half long.

 

see this is three days after i did a total scrub down of every thing

 

Well, the first photo is kind of a darker green algae, which at first sight makes me think of Bryopsis. I'm not an expert on what this particular algae looks like, but I sincerely hope this is not your ailment....the second two pics are solely in need of a hungry turbo snail. Throw one of those guys in there and you won't have any more GHA to be seen. I hope some of the more experienced nuisance algae reefers can jump in with an answer for your first photo though.

 

Would you use stress coat in distiled water.

 

Why?