Algae id

[pandimus]

I have been fighting gha for about 6-8 months now.. I'm on the tail end of that fight, but alas it seems a new foe has come to play... It looks kinda like gha. It's brown and slightly hairy but it attached to rock like no other... It has little brown booger looking balls at the base.. My phosphates are still high but nowhere near where it was before.. Currently at. 08 I've been dosing 20 ml of Vinegar as a maintenance dose. I have very little gha left in tank and what is left is getting consumed fast by my turbos..

If you guys have any idea lemme know

Tia
Johnny

 

[Emac909]

Diatoms

Referred to as a microalgae, brown or golden algae is actually not an algae at all, but diatoms. What you are actually seeing in your tank are diatom skeletons , all linked together. It can appear as a simple dusting on the tank walls and substrate surfaces, or it can turn into a massive growth that covers just about everything in the tank. This type of algae outbreak typically occurs when a tank is just completing or has finished

 

[pandimus]

Thanks for the quick feedback.. So i should just keep up with water changes and it will go away?

 

[Emac909]

And get the phosphates lower.

 

[pandimus]

Thanks..

 

[djam]

What is the best way to treat this?

 

[pandimus]

On a new tank keep up with water changes

 

[acbaldwin]

I don't think those are diatoms. Never seen furry diatoms, at least. Think maybe a variant of hair algae, or *maybe* bryopsis, hard to tell without a better picture. Solution is probably the same anyways - lower your phosphates, perhaps introduce a natural predator like a blenny.

 

[pandimus]

I don't think those are diatoms. Never seen furry diatoms, at least. Think maybe a variant of hair algae, or *maybe* bryopsis, hard to tell without a better picture. Solution is probably the same anyways - lower your phosphates, perhaps introduce a natural predator like a blenny.

I have a lawnmower blenney and turbo snails.. They don't like that stuff..