What's this?

[cmdmd]

Can anyone help identify these algae?

http://s1034.photobucket.com/albums/a430/cmdmd/28 Gallon with Algae issue/?action=postupload

What can I do to control this?

Water parameters:
NO2-0
NO3-0
PO4-0-0.25
NH3-0
Salinity - 1.0255

28G HQL, Protein Skimmer and I am using phosban on a mesh baggie.
Please.


Thank you very much.

 

[mcgyvr]

How long as the tank been set up?
What's the lighting?
Using RO/DI water or just reg tap water or what?
Maybe I'm looking at the wrong pictures or something but I'm not seeing anything to be worried about except that coral doesn't look too happy..

 

[cmdmd]

Great name!

Great name!

Yeah, that coral seems like he wants to shed his polyps and die a slow and decomposing death. I dont know what the lines of "green slob" are. That bird's nest was happy until his acropora buddy died. He had an iodide dip. The tank is 12 weeks old.

Also, I just had my coral banded shrimp murder my 2 cleaner shrimp. Wife still thinks they died of natural causes...perhaps a heart attack. But, one of them was missing his head and you could see the shrimp's color in his belly...what a shocker! LOL anyway, that is something funny. I'll capture him and sell him or trade him for a docile cleaner shrimp.....after naming him Dexter

 

[mscarpena]

dinoflagellates. Very hard to get rid of. I had it a battled it for a long time. I finally got a stripped rabbit fish and it ate it. Also ate a bunch of zoos and took 8 hours to remove, but I suppose it may have been worth it.

 

[cmdmd]

R/O water only

 

[Shmax]

Dinoflagellates are actually quite easy to get rid of, if you don't have a major organics problem. Something is definitely wrong, judging by that birds' nest, the slime in that picture looks like it's from the coral itself, not from any algae. Is there more algae higher in the tank? Dinos usually look like.... snot with air bubbles in it. If there is more of that stringy snotty looking stuff with bubbles in it, just kill the lights for 3 days and turn them back on. Works like a charm. It may come back after a couple weeks, but after 2-3 "lights out" treatments, it usually goes away for good.

 

[cmdmd]

They're everywhere...about shutting the lights off for 2-3 days, won't that hurt the corals? I have an acropora, a chalice and others...

 

[Shmax]

Not in the least. Matter of fact, they respond positively to having a break. You have to remember not every day out on the reef is full sun. There are storm systems that last days, maybe even a week or more. I have sps, clams, lps... corals open up bigger and prettier after a lights out period.

 

[wickedfish]

I am also going through this lights out for 3 days it is.

 

[tarvis]

Seems like I did the lights out and changed flow to get rid of them

 

[wickedfish]

Still there after a few days of lights out same or worse the sand bed looks better but the red strings are all on my corals I am pretty concerned that the stuff is gonna suffocate my hard work. I have really good flow in all the troubled areas I have about 5k gph of flow inside the display.