It’s killing my coral, NEED HELP

[Chris_Noles]

Hey everyone, I can’t seem to shake whatever algae is taking over my tank. I’ve had Dinos, Bubble Algae and cyano. Now I have this mat of green algae that grows on rocks, sand and has been killing off my Zoa’s. I have no idea what this is or how to fight it. I also just got done dosing Razor and bottled bacteria to kill bubble algae.

Lights are on for 8 hours a day, I run purigen (edit),carbon, filter pads and a protein skimmer. I can post parameters later as well if needed.

 

[doubleshot00]

Why not try a 3 day blackout just to kinda restart everything and go from there instead of keep adding different stuff to see if it works.

 

[Timfish]

How old is your system? How did you set it up? (It looks like you used all dry rock and sand?) How often are you doing water changes?

 

[drukkosz]

I would invest in quality UV. proper flow and size matter a lot. I swear by mine (12 years in the hobby) you can check my build thread.

curious why are you running carbon and chemiclean at same time?

 

[Reefing Reefer]

Water parameters? Have you bottomed out your nitrates/phosphates? How long do you run your skimmer?

 

[Chris_Noles]

Why not try a 3 day blackout just to kinda restart everything and go from there instead of keep adding different stuff to see if it works.

I’ll try another blackout, this algae usually comes back in a day or 2 after

 

[Chris_Noles]

How old is your system? How did you set it up? (It looks like you used all dry rock and sand?) How often are you doing water changes?

System is about 2 years old, I used dry rock and sand. I do a 5 gallon water change every month.

 

[Chris_Noles]

Water parameters? Have you bottomed out your nitrates/phosphates? How long do you run your skimmer?

I’ll get parameters when I get home. I run my skimmer 24/7

 

[Chris_Noles]

I would invest in quality UV. proper flow and size matter a lot. I swear by mine (12 years in the hobby) you can check my build thread.

curious why are you running carbon and chemiclean at same time?

I have one of those Amazon UV’s laying around I could put back in the tank. I usually run carbon and chemiclean at the same time (right now its only chemiclean) since that’s what I have been told to do from the start.

 

[GatorGreg]

I’ll get parameters when I get home. I run my skimmer 24/7

I’m a pico guy and reef completely different than you big tank guys. This is a question here. With such little livestock in that tank, is there a need to be skimming 247?

 

[GatorGreg]

Chemiclean or chemipure? Because if you’re running chemi clean on a daily basis. I’m not sure that’s a good thing. At all

 

[Troylee]

Chemiclean? Your skimmer has never worked then…

 

[Troylee]

Zooming in on your pics it almost looks like byropsis.. need some better pics under white lights to be exact.

 

[GatorGreg]

Chemiclean? Your skimmer has never worked then…

With such little livestock in that tank. If it was mine I probably wouldn’t be skimming at all. I have never had a tank bigger than 40g though and that was a while back. All my tanks have been 10 and under

 

[sfin52]

Zooming in on your pics it almost looks like byropsis.. need some better pics under white lights to be exact.

Could be a turf algea. A urchin would help with turf not sure about byropis

 

[Chris_Noles]

Chemiclean or chemipure? Because if you’re running chemi clean on a daily basis. I’m not sure that’s a good thing. At all

This is my bad I am running purigen not chemiclean Idk why I get them mixed up

 

[Chris_Noles]

I would invest in quality UV. proper flow and size matter a lot. I swear by mine (12 years in the hobby) you can check my build thread.

curious why are you running carbon and chemiclean at same time?

I meant purigen**** my bad

 

[Kasrift]

This is my bad I am running purigen not chemiclean Idk why I get them mixed up

You mean chemipure either blue or chemipure elite. I looked at your other thread from last year.

 

[Chris_Noles]

With such little livestock in that tank. If it was mine I probably wouldn’t be skimming at all. I have never had a tank bigger than 40g though and that was a while back. All my tanks have been 10 and under

Agreed on the skimming…I ended up over buying equipment I really didn’t need. I do get a decent amount of skim over the course of a week for a 25 gallon..

 

[Chris_Noles]

Zooming in on your pics it almost looks like byropsis.. need some better pics under white lights to be exact.

I could get some pictures with brighter lights, I’ve found byropsis in this tank as well I dont see any “leafy” algae in there yet…