diatoms gone...now greenish/lime algae?

[surfingdude]

alright, Iam over the diatom bloom...that vanished as fast as it started, which is very cool and wasnt sure what that was all about...now I come home and have areas of light green coloration on the rocks...dont see anything on the substrate yet. Hair algae or some other algae? I would take a pic but probably wont show up. Going to give it a little while longer and see what comes of it. Checked my phosphates and looks darn near 0 now and nitrates are still at 5.

Man, fighting all kinds of weird stuff - diatom bloom, evil chromis, toadstool woes, and now this lime colored stuff.

On a positive note, got my apex jr...that thing is excellent!

 

[mcgyvr]

Welcome to a new tank..
You are now on stage 2.. green stuff..
You might enter stage 3.. cyano

Keep your nitrates/phosphates low and the algae will go away on its own..
Also time to add a clean up crew (CUC) if you want to help make it go away..
I'd recommend a snail only CUC as crabs tend to just eat your snails..

reefcleaners has good pricing on them

 

[Reefer40b]

Probably is a good time for CUC for sure.
I haven't had my crabs ever bother a snail but I also do provide empty bigger shells for them change the shell out for which they like to do from time to time they sometimes pick a smaller one at times too..... I only have 2 scarlet red ones the others I cant speak for.

Don't over do it either I only have 5 snails and 2 hermits in a 40b and they do a good job, buying too many and they will just die and pollute the tank.

 

[surfingdude]

right now, got 7 snails, which they did a great job on the diatoms. Have 2 blue legged hermits...super small but thats all the store had. Plan on getting more crabs.

I was amazed how quick the snails cleaned off the rocks. I must say, this new algae is kinda odd looking...just strange looking...see what happens

 

[RogueGrown]

I'm going through this right now also. I lessened the length my lights are on and found that the algae become more weak and I can manually remove it with a baster. I will say though I leave it on my back glass cause I've been having a pod explosion and they are happy in it.

As stated before though keep your levels down, do your water changes it will disappear in time.

 

[surfingdude]

looks like green hair algae starting, tho not alot...I have been very particular on my water paremeters...nitrates are very low 0-5 and phosphates unmeasurable...What gives?

 

[madreefer2013]

alright, Iam over the diatom bloom...that vanished as fast as it started, which is very cool and wasnt sure what that was all about...now I come home and have areas of light green coloration on the rocks...dont see anything on the substrate yet. Hair algae or some other algae? I would take a pic but probably wont show up. Going to give it a little while longer and see what comes of it. Checked my phosphates and looks darn near 0 now and nitrates are still at 5.

Man, fighting all kinds of weird stuff - diatom bloom, evil chromis, toadstool woes, and now this lime colored stuff.

On a positive note, got my apex jr...that thing is excellent!

Picture of the green stuff?

 

[mcgyvr]

looks like green hair algae starting, tho not alot...I have been very particular on my water paremeters...nitrates are very low 0-5 and phosphates unmeasurable...What gives?

Totally normal..
A tank can easily take 6-12 months to "mature"..
and it can take a few months just to get through the initial algae stages..
Stop worrying.. Its normal..

 

[gsgargett]

Just gone through the diatom stage myself, can't wait ��