How do u kill this algae getting acro?

[NVfishman]

I have this brown algae starting to cover 2 frags how do u get rid of it?

glue? epoxy? with frag in place, or remove frag and epoxy over then reset frag?

 

[aurora]

Use an old toothbrush to brush it off if you can. Don't be afraid that the brush will harm the encrusting edge. I find that my frag encrust faster if I keep it clean. I see that you'd epoxy the frag in place so it's a bit harder to get to with a brush. You've got a lot of flatworms there also.

 

[buy_baff]

I would wager that if that many red panatia are around that frag then you don't have enough flow. As they hate strong flow. I would take steps to put them in check now because it looks like your on your way to a infestation.

 

[NVfishman]

I took a razor to this algae in my frag tank and some must have made it to the main. Its really on there good tooth brush wont do much. A friend said to try the glue with frag in, if no such luck I guess i will have to break off.

I got a lot of the red flat worms lower down in the tank. I got some of those velvet nudibranch didnt do much also have a few 6 line wrasses. I have a ton of acros and sps and didnt want to risk using flatworm exit and kill the tank. I was told these flat worms are harmless. Any good way to kill them without killing corals? Flow is probally over kill I have 2 6205s 2 6101s, hammerhead, and 2 1400gph powerheads. one of the 6205s is blasting that spot where the frags are.

thanks for help

 

[uireef]

re-mount the frag.

 

[Whisperer]

I have that entrusting brown algae all over and I noticed that my sps are not affected except the green birdsnest where that algae had invaded the branches. I will remove the plug entirely and transfer the frag or glue it directly.

 

[Reef Bass]

The best way to get rid of algae is to reduce the nutrients in the water (nitrates, phosphates) that algae needs to grow.

 

[NVfishman]

nitrates and phosphates are at 0 from the vodka also from the vodka a bunch of cyano i would say bacteria, but it is growing real thick and breaks off in clumps.

A friend said its a Lobophora brown algae maybe iodine is high?

 

[fanandy8]

I wouldn't worry about flatworm exit harming your SPS. I have used it before and not had any bad effects on my SPS. Some will slime but thats it, had excellent PE during and after treatment.

 

[NVfishman]

thanks for imput fanandy8 i was reading on it last night. I will have to get carbon and new water ready, and get a few damsels to help out after treatment. Sounds like things could go real bad if i dont really watch it

 

[fourts1]

I had a bad flatworm problem and put in a couple of target mandarins which took care of them pretty quick

 

[tedca]

The name of the algea is Lobophora Variegata. A Naso Elegans or Naso Lituratus tang will love to eat it up.

 

[Gangous]

Few works great

 

[mikedelgado]

m green coris wrasse ate all my planeria. If that is the same brown algea I had I think its called dictoya? Naso tangs love it.I had a bunch of it covering up my corals many years ago. I bought a naso and he ate all of it with gusto.Then starved to death because he wouldnt touch anything else I tried to give him. This is why I will never buy another naso unless its allready eating prepared foods.

 

[Gangous]

Flatt worm exit

 

[Softhammer]

If you are leery of adding chemicals I would do weekly water changes. I severely question your parameters, algae and flatworms are both red flags that your water isn't where you think it is. Also, I have used FW exit 3 times with no valuble fatalities. Once you put it in get a length of air tubing and a foot or two of rigid airtubing. Connect the two, start a siphon and now you have a nice little FW vacuum! I did this every time during a water change and then used FW exit once I sucked out a ton of those guys. It wiped them out!

 

[Logzor]

m green coris wrasse ate all my planeria. If that is the same brown algea I had I think its called dictoya? Naso tangs love it.I had a bunch of it covering up my corals many years ago. I bought a naso and he ate all of it with gusto.Then starved to death because he wouldnt touch anything else I tried to give him. This is why I will never buy another naso unless its allready eating prepared foods.

I agree, looks like dictyota. This algae is really tough to eradicate 100%. I would recommend taking all possible measures to 100% remove it from your tank before it spreads. Do not remove the algae in tank as this tends to spread it to other locations.

Some people have luck killing these algae but I suspect that there are some species that are very difficult to kill.

 

[ratsckor]

One good way to get rid of algae is to do like they said and brush the area with a tooth brush and then turn your lights off for 3 solid days... no light. You will notice a big difference in the amount of algae. Some of the Soft Corals might not open back for a few days but everything will be ok and after a few days everything will be back to normal minus Algae.

 

[seesick]

One good way to get rid of algae is to do like they said and brush the area with a tooth brush and then turn your lights off for 3 solid days... no light. You will notice a big difference in the amount of algae. Some of the Soft Corals might not open back for a few days but everything will be ok and after a few days everything will be back to normal minus Algae.

algae will come back, you need to fix the problem reduce the nutrients in the water (nitrates, phosphates)

 

[Reef Bass]

I severely question your parameters, algae and flatworms are both red flags that your water isn't where you think it is.

+1, muh huh, etc. You have significant algae. Your nitrates and phosphates are not both zero.