Id This Algae Please

cpllongjk

Active member
Hi,
Ive been reef keeping for many years now, but ive never had algae problems because ive run refugiums on all my tanks. I took my 20L down and set up this all in one AquaPod 24g, to appease my wife.
Ever since i moved all my stuff from my old tank to this one, ive had algae problems all over the place. But mainly on the rock.

Params:
ph 7.86
temp 78.2
nitrate .2
phosphate 0
salinity 1.025
dkh 9.5

im running lights at only 6hours right now.

i have rowaphos and chaeto in my ac70fuge, and running a css65 full time.

Lyretail anthia, and orchid dottyback is my bioload
also 1 crocea clam, 1 frag of acropora doing well...

cleanup crew is 4turbos, 4astrea, 4cerith, 1conch, 1 sallylight foot, 2hermits...

nothing is chomping on the rocks. they dont even touch it. also i have about 1500gph in the main display, nothing is pointing directly at the rocks.

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PLEASE HELP, THIS IS NOT HURTING MY TANK, BUT ITS A PAIN IN THE BUTT
 
hard to say, could be hair algae or maybe bryopsis. You might want to try something like Marine SAT, which is really good at handling hair algae. If you could ID it as bryopsis, lettuce nudibranchs are pretty good from what I've heard.

As a side note, I would get the lyretail out of that small tank. Not to flame you or anything, but that fish needs a lot more room to swim that you're providing it right now, especially when it gets larger.
 
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