Algae from H***

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Beverly

Brad,

That has to be the most frightening stuff I have seen, besides the bubble algae outbreak in my 37g Have you tried turkey basting it to get it into the water column so your skimmer can remove it? Also, if it will go into the water column, maybe you could try adding some kind of mechanical filtration, like a couple of AC 500s to remove it? Geez, I'd be freaked if that were in my tank

Bev, if I blast it off the rocks, I can watch it grow back by the end of the day. Leaving it alone seems to be the only way to stop it from growing even further. When I basted it, I had floss in the overflow and that removed bunches. I cleaned the skimmer every other day. I've scraped the back wall clean only to have it back like the pics in 3 days. It's on most of the rockwork, all the pumps and even grows on the snail!
The only sign of success is that one little snail. where it eats the algae, so far none has regrown. If all astreas can eat this stuff, a small army might actually make a dent in the algae.
On a good note, the corals are doing better than they've done in 10 months.