I have had it with this Algae!!!

[ChiTownRomeo]

going on 2 and half months now and this white fuzzy "stuff" is now covering over 80% of my expensive real reef rock. tried gfo, phosguard, big water changes, 0 tds water, feeding once every 3 days, no frozen food, no nothing has worked to get rid of it. Scrubbing it off the rocks just makes it spread. This didn't start till I added Microbacter7! stopped that a month ago... Help!

 

[Chefjpaul]

Slow down with all the rapid changes to start with.

You added a bacteria supplement, may I ask why?
Looks like bacterial bloom to me.

Let it die off by not adding any more supplements.




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[ChiTownRomeo]

Listening to this dumb guy at my lfs. Said whenever adding real reef to dose some microbacter7 to help colonize it faster. Been a total nightmare. Rock was beautiful and now looks like crap.

 

[Chefjpaul]

Tank is cycled?



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[ChiTownRomeo]

Tank is fully cycled, has fish and corals and they are doing good. Its when I added the real reef rock that this started.

 

[Chefjpaul]

Your established rock would've been sufficient to seed the new rock.

It will go away as the bacteria burns itself out - so to speak-

Bacteria dosing is a strategy used by some sps keepers in a ultra low nutrient system. I don't think it should be messed with freestyle.

the lfs is making his dime on those bottles.


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[ChiTownRomeo]

Yea I should have known better. I feel so dumb cause I knew better. It seems to be getting worse. I called the guy back and he said use some Api Melafix to get rid of the bacteria mat. Just another gimmick in my opinion.

 

[Chefjpaul]

I'd just run some GAC, (don't know if it will do anything, but won't harm.

Treat it like a carbon source overdose.

Water changes are alway good.

Also- get some good surface aeration going, may have lowered your oxygen.

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