algae is dieing

[olie]

i just got home and saw some of my algae in my fuge dieing it turned white it not on all of it only on some and only the top of it is dieing. i have seagrass and it looks healthy but dont know why it dieing.

 

[thewashcaps]

Is it close to the light could be bleaching out

 

[kfisc]

A new, too-intense light could easily bleach both chaeto and caulerpa, but caulerpa may just need to be pruned- if you have chaeto, raise the light, make sure the ball of chaeto has flow around it and turn it over now and then if it's not tumbling around on it's own in there.

You may possibly even have a real lack of nutrients (a good thing) which would cause somewhat of a die out; your nitrates would be zero for quite sometime and you'd notice no other algae was making it, either.

 

[tmz]

If it is caulerpa it is likely sporulating. This occurs from time to time and can be a disaster . Caulerpa is a single celled organism so when it goes it all goes and dumps back everything it has absorbed over a period of time back into the tank.