Purple/red algea

[input80]

Yes, if it is cyano, Chemiclean worked very well on both of our tanks.

[Tom R]

If it is red turf algae then snail work very well. I like Mexican Turbo Snails.

Tom R

[asylumdown]

Can you post a picture of the algae? How you respond depends very much on what it is you're dealing with.

Cyano is a bacteria that can be treated chemically with a product like chemi-clean. Chemi-clean won't do a thing for real algaes, diatoms, or dinoflagellates though. Buying a herbivore to eat turf algae won't do a thing for cyano.

It's best to get a positive ID on what it is first.

[The Guy]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

Can you post a picture of the algae? How you respond depends very much on what it is you're dealing with.

Cyano is a bacteria that can be treated chemically with a product like chemi-clean. Chemi-clean won't do a thing for real algaes, diatoms, or dinoflagellates though. Buying a herbivore to eat turf algae won't do a thing for cyano.

It's best to get a positive ID on what it is first.

Here's a picture of it. I started a Chemi-clean treatment last night, Hopefully this will get rid of this stuff. Any suggestions on what may be causing it. I am using Rowaphos and all my other levels seem good.

[asylumdown]

I'm not sure I'm seeing anything on that rock that looks like cyano. Is it the dark red patches that you're talking about? What's it like when it comes off? Slimy and disintegrates, flaky, or spongy?

[The Guy]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

I'm not sure I'm seeing anything on that rock that looks like cyano. Is it the dark red patches that you're talking about? What's it like when it comes off? Slimy and disintegrates, flaky, or spongy?

It's slimy and breaks up easily when it comes off.

[input80]

When I had, what I thought was, cyano, it was only on the sands bed(s), never saw it on the rocks. Has it started to brown up/recede yet Laurie ?