booger snot algae(?)

[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