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Unread 09/13/2019, 12:51 PM   #1
mrdanielface
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What kind of invasive algae is this

I've been battling this forever. Came after I had a dino breakout. Tried blackouts, low/zero nutrients, deceased light period, increasing cuc, dosing (dino x, chemiclean, azithromycin) scrubbing rock. Nothing works. Can someone please give me a solution I've been teetering back and forth of shutting down. As you can see from the looks of it and I've had enough.

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Unread 09/15/2019, 07:26 PM   #2
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Please turn the blue lights off or way..way down and take the pics again...All that blue light just ruins proper color rendition which is important in id pics...


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Unread 09/17/2019, 05:08 PM   #3
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Here are the pictures with the blues down. Thanks

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Unread 09/18/2019, 12:55 PM   #4
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Fairly normal green algae. Get a number of Banded Trochus Snails and Scarlet Reef Hermit Crabs and they will take care of them.


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Unread 09/20/2019, 06:28 PM   #5
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I just refreshed my cuc and they dont really touch this stuff

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Unread 10/02/2019, 07:18 PM   #6
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Implement an algae turf scrubber and don't look back. It will remove the nutrients that cause this.


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Unread 10/03/2019, 02:09 PM   #7
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That IMO is certainly not regular green hair algae..
It may be a "golden algae" like something from the Chromista kingdom.
May be Calothrix or Lyngbya bacteria


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