Doctor Quillo
New member
So during my cycling I was among one of the few people that never really get to see the "Algae" stage during that whole process, I had zero algae besides one orangish spot on a rock I took out due to my assumed amphipod problem and a bit of coraline specks on some of the rocks, I know my tank did cycle and that everything went well because everytime I took my water to get tested which was once about every month they said my water was literally perfect, and that's the exact wording they used. I have some soft corals, two clownfish that are doing well I introduced yesterday, an Emerald Crab, a Conch, and a Flametail Blenny, my Zoa's haven't been doing too well for some reason, I assume maybe its because my Emerald crab may have had little to eat during those times without much algae but I started feeding him pellets to keep him away recently, at first I thought it was the Gammarus amphipods I saw crawling all over them at night but I found out those don't typically eat coral so. Anyways I was gone for like three hours and it literally blew up, suddenly it appeared, coincidentally that day I had my LFS scrape off some coraline from their tank and bought some purple up to put in my tank, or maybe it was there in the morning and I didn't notice but I swear it was fast, some of it is Lime greenish and growing on the rocks without any little hair like appendages, some of it is brownish and its splattered on the front of my tank however they do have hair like appendages, I was assuming that this is hair algae even though you can't really see it in the picture? What should I do about it if it is hair algae, and there is not that much, I also have some red algae I think? I'd assume that is coraline I also recently bought a rock with coraline on it and I am adding the purple up daily so I can try to get calcium in my tank, so would the coraline outcompete the nuisance algae in time for it to not spread all too bad or would I need to take precaution?