brown stringy stuff coming off my live rock ?

herbklee

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winning the war against bubble algae and aptasia by using vibrant and bergi nudis but what is this brown stringy stuff that i see now coming off my live rock and corals?

dying nuisance algae or a new problem?

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Hard to tell. A closer pic would help. It kind of looks like dying algae, but wouldn't you know it, if it was that?

Does it look like a golden snot, with air bubbles that increase through the day? If so it could be a new problem - dinoflagellates.

It looks more brown in the pic, so it may not be dinos. Regardless of what it is, manual removal, along with some hungry snails and/or a Scopas Tang should help. Most herbivore won't eat it when it's long like that. Manual removal gets it down to the length that they will.
 
brown stringy stuff coming off my live rock ?

u don't think its dino.
its more brown and not as snotty

i wonder if vibrant caused this
it really took care if bubble algae outbreak but now all my zoas and hammer corals are ****ed
i hope they survive
how do you reverse the adverse side effects of vibrant cleaner?

it could be the new led lights i installed recently as well
thanks for your input

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Well, it's a good thing it's not dinos. I'd just call it the general brown uglies. I have no experience with vibrant. Maybe someone has, and can chime in. My previous advice still stands.
 
Generally if you have a bloom of something, you need less of what's driving it. Multiple 10-20% water changes to lower nutrient levels might help, spaced every few days.
 
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