Algae!!!!!

[curtis9065]

How do you get rid of black and red algae,

 

[needmorecowbell]

What does it look like? Hairy, patchy, spotted? More than likely a pwc will do the trick.

 

[jwalsh]

Are you using r/o water?

 

[TeamTrash]

And how much are you feeding?

 

[Sniperhank]

Water changes.

 

[joy13]

Look up cyano it sounds like you have the same thing going on in your tank as I am with mine. Mine is just turning a year and I am not the only one fighting it in my area. Do pwc and try to siphon off as much as possible. Doing a couple of smaller water changes seems to work best for my tank instead of one large one.

 

[curtis9065]

Thanks for all the advice guys. I've done one pwc and plan on another one next week. Could this stuff be the cause of my mexican turbo snails dieing off? I lost four now and one I've had in the tank for months the other three about four weeks.

 

[PrettyFishies]

It's likely excess phosphates. What are your parameters?

I use a refugium and chemi pure with RO water. Worked for me as my tank is phosphate free.

 

[jwalsh]

I would have to agree I used to get this all the time when I used tap water for my pwc but have reciently have switched to r/o water and all is well. Maybe give that a try and see how it works for ya

 

[needmorecowbell]

I got tons of diatoms when I used tap. Now I have rodi water and have no algae problems.

 

[melosu58]

We have an excellent article about that in our SW articles section.

 

[curtis9065]

Thanks for all the help. I ordered a six stage r/od/I unit and can't wait for it to arrive! In the meantime will the crpto harm my coral? As u can see in the pics its creaping up on my flower pot!

 

[needmorecowbell]

If it gets on it, blow it off with a turkey baster. Other than that you should be okay. It is a sign of nitrates though which can harm corals, especially sps, in large amounts. Pwc's will counter that.