Algae ID, Help, and Sympathy Please!!!!

[Dez]

Hey Dave,

I had similar algae once and I just took a few clumps to my LFS and asked if I could throw it in certain tanks to see what ate it. I found a yellow tang that ate it and it took care of it in a month. Hope this helps.

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[mark]

no idea how to deal with it but you got my sympathy

[Youngster Dan]

You have my sympathy as well.

That being said, if you look at it differently you could have one funky "planted" marine tank with crazy purple algae!

Good luck with the battle!

[Duffer2]

LOL. My five year old nephew was over and thought the tank looked soooo pretty. It's his new favorite tank.

Originally Posted by Youngster Dan

You have my sympathy as well.

That being said, if you look at it differently you could have one funky "planted" marine tank with crazy purple algae!

Good luck with the battle!

[MMAX]

If Red Coral doesn't have any Mexican turbos, Riverfront always has nice big ones.

[JenniferL]

I just fought a battle with this stuff, not quite as bad but a few of my rocks did look like that also. I bought some turbo snails about 2 weeks ago. Now I don't know for sure if it was them that ate it all or because its winter now and I have been back to my normal weekly water changes and better tank maintenance schedule but it is basically gone. The sails were on it so I think they did help.

[whatcaneyedo]

It just so happens that my purple tang eats that crap (and bubble algae) so I've never had the problem. I'll start the bidding at $200... (joking ) I like Dez's idea though. Bring some into a LFS and see if any of their fish for sale will eat it.