Pest Algae

[JohnnyReeftank]

I started my tank about a year ago and I've gone thru almost every kind of algae bloom since then, including dino's for about 4 months. I was worried from the stuff I read about them and I narrowed it down to 2 choices. First choice was to blast them with a turkey baster almost daily and then suck out as much as possible. My second choice was the total blackout for 4 days (wrapped with a blanket and everything) but I only would do this if my first choice fell thru. I blasted that stuff off my rocks for about 4 weeks straight and did a big water change weekly and they eventually stopped showing up. But, this did coinside with an outburst of various types of macro-algae that has continued evolving to this day....hope this helps