Red turf algae? *pic*

[jd474]

I've had to deal with this stuff too. It thrives on clean water and lots of flow. It grew on every single surface in my tank including snails and hermits. I did beat it though using huge mexican turbo snails. They literally picked the surface clean whether it was rock or powerheads or glass and i mean clean as in nothing left behind. It took 8 of them about 2 months to clear my 75. After they finished the job the turbos eventually died and started my next dilemma, battling Hair Algae.

Bingo! The turbos didn't eat the hair algae? After they ate this nasty red stuff, they ate any bryopsis that was in there as well.

 

[KafudaFish]

I had/have it in my tank as well and must have come in from a snail. Eventually I pulled most of my rock and I have been cooking it for the last 3 months and that is gone.
The rock I left in my tank I started dosing vodka, vinegar, and table sugar up to 3 ml/day. It killed the red algae and turned it white. It also made it easier to scrape off the rocks with a tooth brush.
I need to start dosing again and get the rest out before I add the cooked rock back in.
My carbon solution was 200 ml:50 ml:2 tsp.

 

[UTCReefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13582284#post13582284 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jd474
Bingo! The turbos didn't eat the hair algae? After they ate this nasty red stuff, they ate any bryopsis that was in there as well.

Nope they wouldnt touch the HA. I pretty sure that when they died they caused the outbreak of HA.

 

[zachtos]

Black Spine urchins ate that purple fuzz for me, I have 3 urchins, they eat alot of your corraline too though, no biggie, it grows fast.

 

[defib]

I know you have a small tank but you might want to also think about running some gfo if possible.

 

[Ed Ricketts]

xenon
I've had that problem before i realized it was a problem, back in the 90's. I traded individual rocks out to a buddy with a Zebrasoma sp. that ate and ate. The problem I had with manually tearing it apart was that it seemed to disintegrate into tiny little red pieces that would re-colonize elsewhere.

And as a sidenote, I'd conjecture that those with PO4 running at undetectable levels are to be applauded, but report those values with caution. Oftentimes the test kits don't have the sensitivity to detect what might be useful amounts of phosphate in the tank. Also, just because the PO4 is zero doesn't mean phosphate is never available, but rather tightly cycled i.e. snatched up by the growing mat or ball or glob of undesirables in our tanks the moment it becomes available.

FWIW

 

[Malcolm_C]

i had that, i think i did, dose it look like it has a coraline base? if so i dosed about 3 tbls of sugar a day and would stop once i got a bateria bloom, ozone running 24/7. once bloom cleared i would start dosing sugar again, took about two months to kill, but i also checked my ro water and my tds reading was 30 so i relplaced all my filters and membrane, not sure if this wouil help u but thougt i would give my two cents. i read a post somewhere many months back and this is what someone did, but my water quality wasnt the best.