red hair issue help!

[princesuhaib]

hey i think i may be getting some red hair algae, it is very tiny but a rock that was white in color all of a sudden turned red and now i am beginning to see some small hairs.
what is the cause of this and how do i get rid of it?
Thank You

 

[CleveYank]

P-haib,

Just like the green algaes the red will spread under 2 major conditions.
Nitrate and Phosphate.
Sometimes even in ULNS some have had both survive.

The red is a plague. I've had to resort to everything from Kalk paste to removing the livestock I wanted and then freshwater nuking and recuring the rock in the sump before placing it back into the display.
Reduce your nitrate to 10 and below and reduce your phosphates to almost -0- under high test range and give the systematic kalking of it around your livestock. If you have not used the Kalk paste be very careful about current and what it blows onto for it can nuke the good stuff too.

Hope you can lick it before it gets out of hand.

Mike

 

[princesuhaib]

ttt

 

[JohnDinSD]

I have relatively small patches of red wire algae on my rock and I have been using Aiptasia-X with good results. It takes several applications though.

 

[herozero]

2 big turbo snails cleared all my rocks of my red turf algae in 2 days.

 

[bvoss57]

I had that pink cotton-candy devil-spawn a couple of years ago. It likes high-light, high-flow, and low-nutrients (same as SPS).

Eric Borneman has a sticky thread on it in his forum at Marine Depot. It even drove him to the edge.

My only advice is to deal with it aggressively. Scavengers, skimming, ozone, and phosban.

I found turbos ate it, as did some sea hares. It really spreads in frag swaps. Be careful of that.

Good luck

 

[CleveYank]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15244896#post15244896 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bvoss57
I had that pink cotton-candy devil-spawn a couple of years ago. It likes high-light, high-flow, and low-nutrients (same as SPS).

Eric Borneman has a sticky thread on it in his forum at Marine Depot. It even drove him to the edge.

My only advice is to deal with it aggressively. Scavengers, skimming, ozone, and phosban.

I found turbos ate it, as did some sea hares. It really spreads in frag swaps. Be careful of that.

Good luck

My turbos and cleanup crew wouldn't touch the stuff. (4 varieties of snails and 3 kinds of hermits at the time)


And I got mine from supposedly clean frags via C-Sea fragswappers that even looked clean when they came in...lol.


Frag swapping gave me, AEFW, Red Planaria, red bugs, Aptaisia, this red hair algae, bubble algae all from frags or corals that the sellers swore up and down were clean. These things made it through dips and inspections.

Now I replug and mount everything, 3 stage dipping and kalk paste the sides and bottoms of anything that I cannot put on a new plug and more importantly, I won't buy from just anyone.

I wonder what the exact variety of turbo you have that was eating the red algae. Mine was the dark red to maroon stuff that grew like a tough upright wirey variety that feels like carpet. And the stuff is really tough and has a tenaciouos hold on anything it grows on.

 

[bvoss57]

I had luck with Mexican Turbos, but it was really the ozone and phosban that did it in (over about 6 months)