algae help - is this hair algae?

[lewk]

I think I'm dealing with hair algae here, but I'm not 100% sure. This is a newly setup (4 weeks old) 135 gallon tank, that I moved livestock over from a 65. I'm not sure how old the lights are, so that could be playing a part here. Just in case, I ordered 3 new MH lamps.

I don't have any type of macroalgae to pull out nutrients, I was hoping to load up the sump with rubble and get a cryptic zone going down there and not have to worry about lighting the sump.

I am running carbon and BRS high capacity GFO according to their calculator.

Nitrates and phosphates are both coming back 0, although I realize that the algae could be using this up so the test kits don't register it.

Should I throw a bunch of turbo snails at it?

It may be the lighting because the rock under the middle light is where the most algae is popping up.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

[lewk]

Forgot to add, all water is (at a minimum) RO. I used RO salt water from the LFS to fill the tank, and all water has since been topped off with RO/DI water from my unit, which registers 0 TDS.

 

[Slim_jim989]

What type of lighting do you have? What type of fish do you have and what do you feed them? How long are your lights on for?

 

[lewk]

I'm running 3 250 watt halides and 2 54 watt T5's for actinics. Halides are on 7 hours a day and the actinics are on for 12. I did order new bulbs for the MH lights because I bought the setup used and can't remember exactly how many months are on the bulbs. Bulbs arrive tomorrow.

I have a yellow tang, bangaii cardinal, percula, tri color wrasse and a red cap goby.

I feed every other day, and alternate between frozen mysis, algae flakes and some spirulina brine and mysis.

 

[thebanker]

Your rock looks very new. I've found that GHA loves to grow on new rock and clean plastic surfaces with lots of light.

 

[lewk]

I think the rock in the pic is BRS dry rock that's been cycling for the past 4 or 5 months or so in a Brute trash can. Other than that it's from my 65 gallon or from other folks breaking down their tanks.