Help: Bubble Algea

[Civicman86]

Looking for some help. I have a 75g tank that is almost 2years old. Everything was great until I brought a snail home that formed some bubble algea. Trying to be precaution I took the snail out and removed the algea from his shell. Did a quick rinse and put him back in the tank (terrible mistake). I now have a tank FULL of this junk! Looking for any help. I tried in the beginning to remove it but needed up popping more than I removed. I now have two emeralds and neither is making a dent and has killed my skunk cleaner. The tank looks so bad I'm about ready to just throw the towel in.

I thought about a One spot of face but worry the tank is to small - and if him and my yellow eye can coexist. Any help is appreciated, I miss my beautiful tank!

 

[Sk8r]

Generally it's a transient pest---IF it's not getting a nutrient that lets it run riot. You've got a fowlr and it may be nutrient rich. First thing to do is a set of water changes, starting witj a 30%, then 3 days on do a 20%, and do that once a month to see if that helps. Do you have a skimmer, and how good is it? There are things that one can do IF there's a good skimmer, but meanwhile the heavy water changes may help curtail the pest. If it's any consolation, visitors often admire the stuff as pretty and think it's a coral. But I'm betting your actual issue is water quality.

 

[Green Chromis]

Looking for some help. I have a 75g tank that is almost 2years old. Everything was great until I brought a snail home that formed some bubble algea. Trying to be precaution I took the snail out and removed the algea from his shell. Did a quick rinse and put him back in the tank (terrible mistake). I now have a tank FULL of this junk! Looking for any help. I tried in the beginning to remove it but needed up popping more than I removed. I now have two emeralds and neither is making a dent and has killed my skunk cleaner. The tank looks so bad I'm about ready to just throw the towel in.

I thought about a One spot of face but worry the tank is to small - and if him and my yellow eye can coexist. Any help is appreciated, I miss my beautiful tank!

:fish1: I was working on my refugium and found a lot on the bottom side of a few pieces of live rock, I asked some of my friends , and was told to use Vibrant to get rid of it, and it totally worked. The Algae disappeared in a month or so, and it never came back. :fish1:

 

[Civicman86]

Generally it's a transient pest---IF it's not getting a nutrient that lets it run riot. You've got a fowlr and it may be nutrient rich. First thing to do is a set of water changes, starting witj a 30%, then 3 days on do a 20%, and do that once a month to see if that helps. Do you have a skimmer, and how good is it? There are things that one can do IF there's a good skimmer, but meanwhile the heavy water changes may help curtail the pest. If it's any consolation, visitors often admire the stuff as pretty and think it's a coral. But I'm betting your actual issue is water quality.

Thanks, I'm actually no longer fowl - have a couple coral but nothing crazy. I am going to try to do the water changes as you suggested as I would prefer to do it naturally instead of with chemicals (vibrnat may happen though depending on success).

I do have a skimmer (reef octopus) and I think it works really well. I don't skin super wet but pull lots of really dark crud.

We are having Xmas for my family here and would really love to have this under better control by then. Also feel like it's pushing out some of my polyps.

 

[billdogg]

After going after it very aggressively for almost a year, I tried Vibrant with a “nothing to lose” attitude. I went with about 1.5x dosage on my SPS dominate tank. It did not affect a thing other than the BA. It took 4-6 weeks but eventually eliminated every trace. I now give a 1x dose about every 2 weeks just to prevent its return.

Hth

 

[Fourstars]

I always have a small patch here or there. I just leave it alone. If it starts to take off, I know I have more then just BA issues.