booger snot algae(?)

[carriej]

The algae grows from the little spores in like around a circle. Sometimes I will see one of the little spores floating around, and I remove them. The fish don't eat the spores (maybe some type would) and wherever they land they turn all white and slimey. The spores are amber in color - algae appears colorless but has a slight orangey tint out of the aquarium in large quantities.

Should I take the rocks out and scrub them?

Some pics... In the bluer pic you can see some of the little brown spores on the tuft.









I'm not real concerned about it... I'm wondering if it may have just been something since tank start up and since I didn't really bother with much algae control or removal if it's just there. So far the stuff I removed from the back glass has not returned.

[subman]

Are you carbon dosing of any kind? (bio pellets, vodka ect)
It looks like a bacterial bloom to me

[carriej]

Nope.. Not dosing anything.

Just started a two part dosing system yesterday, lol. But this stuff was there long before that. Should I scrub those rocks?

[mikeclarke]

I see that you have the wormy algae... I had them and I read that they are some kind of algae that the fish won't eat. It said to get rid of them so I did.

Just pull 'em off and chuck them in the garbage.

[carriej]

lol.. Yeah that weird shaped one. You call it a worm, I call it something else! LOL

I have pulled some off.. Meh... lol

[asylumdown]

I had problems with that exact algae for months:





It happened when there wasn't enough nutrient export for the size of my tank, and once it's established, I think it's better at capturing nutrients than something like a GFO or biopellet system was, so even though all my nutrient parameters read 0 or close to it, it kept growing.

I beat it by upping the flow through rate on my biopellet reactor, cutting back on feedings dramatically, a small army of mexican turbo snails (which mow through it like it's candy), and a two week course of AlgaeFix Marine by API, that you have to buy off eBay because you can't legally get it in Canada. After the Algae fix marine and snails had destroyed it, I stopped dosing the Algaefix, and it never came back. I can only assume that once it wasn't there to outcompete my biopellet reactor, the reactor took up the excess nutrients.

[FishyFishy!]

I got rid of mine through regular water changes, the addition of a GFO reactor, and the main thing was the addition of a good clean up crew. I had tonnes of hermits and snails. They destroyed the algae in 5 days.

[asylumdown]

Here's what it's looked since I dosed the Algaefix Marine and got the turbos in... September? It's definitely beatable.





I will say that my corals didn't really start to take off until it was gone. I'm not sure if they somehow inhibit them or something