white fuzzy algae

[Dan49]

need some advice , starting to get it on my brs live rock, tank about 7months old. just checked water everything good. running carbon plus gfo, dosing with b-ionic 2part +5ml vinegar corals look great .I have heard of algae fix but only as a last resort. thinking about 3 days in the dark. Open to ideas. thanks also 2x 5gallon water changes per week
Dan

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Is this the 40g breeder in your signature?

It's hard to get a look in the photo but if it's actually white, it is probably not algae - could be diatoms, a sponge, or any number of other things.

Have you tried manual removal? See if it'll suck off with a siphon hose the next time you are changing water.

 

[Hiltonc57]

+1 der_wille_zur_macht

Most likely a sponge of some kind. To hard to tell with the picture provided

 

[MHG]

I have the same think covering my BRS eco Rock. I has a brown HA outbreak and used the Algae Fix Marine. Great Great Great stuff. 5 Doses and weekly scrubbing and the HA was gone. This white peach fus took its place. The snals cant keep up with it. It is barely noticable but I fear it is preventing my coralline from growing on my rocks..


So Algae Fix will not help with this.

 

[Dan49]

I have used a toothbrush on it as I'm doing a water change, it then appears to be gone only to be back in 2 days. Ill let it go till my next water change and take another picture It almost looks like a halo around the rock. thanks again,Dan

 

[museumguy]

What kind of cleanup crew are you running? Maybe toss in a trochus snail or two.

 

[reefman5511]

I'm having the same problem with this stuff. I've added a CUC, done numerous water changes, kept the lights off for a few days, taken rocks out & scrubbed them down. Any ideas? Here's a picture after a couple days:

 

[Dan49]

I added a few turbo snails, and they seemed to clean a few areas so far, I will let you know if they continue to work.

 

[Tetra84]

any update on this white fuzzy stuff guys? I got the same thing.. Also growing on my BRS eco-saver rock..

 

[Dan49]

Hi Tetra84, The white algae has been gone for several months. I added a short spine sea urchin along with the turbos and that did the trick for me. The urchin was the key.Good luck let me know if I can help

Dan

 

[GratefulReef]

my only bad experience with urchins was I had one nice sized rock with great coralline growth on it, and my urchin munched it all off left the rock bare =( other than that, they are great cleaners, and really really cool to view diff species prob eat more or less coralline i had a purple pincushion about the size of a baseball

 

[pascal32]

I've seen a similar sponge that was very invasive.

pics:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=19911173&postcount=19

thread:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=19850597

 

[magdelan]

Do you dose two part to the tank?

 

[pascal32]

the tank for which I posted a link does not dose 2 part

 

[Dan49]

I just use kalk in my ato