Please ID this algae for me, I am going mad

[jimrawr]

I am having the battle of a lifetime with this stuff, its been almost a year with zero success. Please ID for me so I can find out whats the right path to removal of this pest

 

[Hens4Fish]

I hate to tell you this, but I had this in my nano, and it got to the point where I had to remove everything and start over. Got rid of all the rock, and started new. I tried urchins, snails, crabs, nothing ate it. I suppose getting rid of all the nutrients in the tank would help too, but I never wanted to invest money into a skimmer. Good luck.

 

[jimrawr]

Thanks, Ive been fighting it long enough to now I may be at the end of the road :/ This is like a last ditch effort trying to identify exactly what it is and see if there is a solution prior to breaking down

 

[john miller]

I'm still a noob, but isn't that bryopsis?

 

[jimrawr]

I dont think its Byropsis but I also dont know exactly what it is. Doesnt seem to be green hair algae

 

[willybub]

could be turf algae caused by too much nutrients, both phosphate and nitrate older lighting that are closer to the red spectrum can cause it as for getting rid of it chitons love it and maybe a phosban reactor or a macro like chaeto to take down phosphate

 

[jimrawr]

I run GFO and a low nutrient system. Chaeto isnt even growing in my tank from a lack of nutrients, but this stuff is doing just fine. May give the Chitons a try, how many do you think for a 92g tank?

 

[Hens4Fish]

I would say to eradicate the problem at least 5-7. I hated that stuff, good luck.

 

[jimrawr]

Ive had it over 9 months :/

 

[Subsea]

If you can remove the individual rock, use H2O2 to eradicate the macro. Hydrogen peroxide is a strong oxidizer, use with precision. When I clean a rock, I put it on a tray on my table where I can work. Tweezers, magnifying glass, inspection light, scrub brush, tooth brush and hydrogen peroxide.
You can do it.
Patrick

 

[brandon429]

he's one of our first posters on the giant thread I dont forget a logon name or digital face

you know how Id like to keep fighting this. 35%, not the watery stuff. I dont blame you for giving up, many do. you can see this as reviewed time and time again in our thread is not a nutrient based invader.

you might get lucky with a clean up crew member, as always.

to fight it directly, its external spot treats of 35%. over and over. The one horizon you have, is that when eradicated this cannot grow back until its reimported again... it grows back from your 3% experiments due to not being killed off all the way. usually, people treat a few rocks and leave in the ones that take the most work (and these reseed the tank)

nothing other than direct physical action on the target will beat it. Im always against tank take downs since this or any other can be reimported again, and round two commences. a technique is needed to beat it in any system at any time. they are usually work intensive and require repeat actions, when the invasion spreads past the first rock.

this is the not only action, its just one that works most of the time. we have to hit it harder with stronger solution to really work the method. 3% is childs play level. and still works most of the time but agreed not all the time, and on something this ornery

 

[bluenassarius]

time to take the rock out. get a torch & burn the **** out of it. -- i'm being serious

unless you have coral on it, break it off and start the curing process over again.

i burn all the rock before i start a tank. people think i'm crazy but i've done a side by side comparison with different tank start ups with this method and not. the difference is when there is a nutrient spike, i don't get the crazy algae bloom from the burned rock vs the unburned rock

 

[bluenassarius]

If you can remove the individual rock, use H2O2 to eradicate the macro. Hydrogen peroxide is a strong oxidizer, use with precision. When I clean a rock, I put it on a tray on my table where I can work. Tweezers, magnifying glass, inspection light, scrub brush, tooth brush and hydrogen peroxide.
You can do it.
Patrick

thats alot of work.

 

[bluenassarius]

I run GFO and a low nutrient system. Chaeto isnt even growing in my tank from a lack of nutrients, but this stuff is doing just fine. May give the Chitons a try, how many do you think for a 92g tank?

chaeto isn't growing bc this nutrient hungry algae is uptaking quicker than it.

 

[brandon429]

removing the rock to burn is the same amount of work...but yes I agree I used to burn its great. little blue jet flame lighter, Id burn anything I didnt want. anything.