Algae id!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blowfish]

i would not worry about the algae your talking about as thats an easy fix like lowering nutrients, but the dictyota in your first is is the one i would be VVVERY fearful of, it thrives in low nutrient and high nutrient, nothing eats it and spreads like herpes. it is probably the worst macro out there

[trinac]

I had a problem algae when I was feeding flake & pellet food and up to 3 times per day. The algae loved this dissolvable food making my water very nutrient rich. Now, from recommendations I feed the frozen mysis shrimp with excess liquid strained through a coffee filter, and only two times per day, with a bit of pellets. The problem algae has decreased quite a bit. The critters keep everything else pretty clean.

But you may be already employing that technique hey!! If so, perhaps it will help someone else who reads this.

I also now have a deionized water system... but I just used it with a water change today so I can't comment on its effectiveness quite yet!

[TheKid]

I think it might be the fact I use tapwater

[TheKid]

I thought the dictoya was good so I've kept it. The saltwater guy at aquariums west told me I had a rare macro algae and to keep it. I could pull it off easy. What do u guys advise to clean up my tank, I'm thinking an urchin and snails