fast growing algea pest -please help

[yraveh]

fast growing algea pest

Please help me with this nightmare. About a month ago a new pest algea found its way to my tank.
It's yellow-green and grows several inches overnight!! It tends to have a buble at its top, thus keeping it afloat. It also spreads very fast.
below are three images:

can U identify it? Is there any way to get rid of it?
Thanks

 

[lulaface]

Two pictures aren't working, but the bottom one just looks like hair algae. The bubbles are either from photosynthesis or just getting caught on it. Is it slimy? That would be cyanobacteria.

Pretty much the answer to getting rid of any pest algae is the same. Manual removal, watch your nutrients, make sure your lights aren't getting old.

 

[tasos]

IF it is cyanobacteria I would feed some nitrates in that macroalgae tank.......
If you already have nitrates I would check the other causes of macroalgae slow growth.....this is that keeps cyano going a marine planted tanks........it is lack of competition from the macro plants...!!!

 

[yraveh]

I find it hard to believe that this is a hear algea. It grows so fast! sometimes a strand would grow 3-4 inches overnight!!

the bubble at the top is not coincidental. It appears in all long strands.
look here for example

Anyway, I have a tak for ~3 years and have miscellaneous hair algea, But this one is a real problem.

 

[tasos]

I am afraid I haven't ever seen that algae.I cannot help, sorry!!

 

[yraveh]

Any idea where I can search an online album, in order to try identify it?

 

[SuperNerd]

If it really is an algae then I think Samala could be able to point you in the right direction.

 

[yraveh]

What's Samala?

 

[rydr119]

I had that stuff in my tank and I tried doing water changes and running carbon like crazy to get rid of it. Nothing I had would eat it either. I took all of the rock out and scrubbed it manually and I haven't seen it since.

 

[yraveh]

Did U ever identify it?

 

[rydr119]

Nope I think it was just some type of slime algae. it was out of control in my tank I tried for 2 months to get rid of it. I even got a sea hare and it didn't touch it. The scrubbing was the only thing that worked for me.

 

[yraveh]

Oh!
it's very slimy, indeed.
What will I do with all the coral attached to the rocks...
How did you wash all the slimy powder/grains created by the brushing, off the rocks?

 

[bluenassarius]

i would try some blue legged hermit crabs or a sally light foot crab to see if they help.