What am I dealing with here?

[abaker136]

I am dealing with what I now think is just a common form of green hair algae but I wanted to get a sanity check. I have gone through a Dino treatment following the BRS Dr.Tims method but the what I am assuming is "algae" never died off during the treatment and what I now know to be diatomes on the sand bed are starting to come back as well (not really a huge issue).

 

[JNalley]

Do you have any white light shots without blues and filters? It looks like a species of hair algae, but I can't really tell due to the extreme yellow nature of some of these photos.

The good news is, it's edible by a lot of things... Hermits, Urchins, Sea Hare's, Crabs, Lawnmower blenny, and plenty of other species you could bring in to control it/get rid of it.

 

[abaker136]

Do you have any white light shots without blues and filters? It looks like a species of hair algae, but I can't really tell due to the extreme yellow nature of some of these photos.

The good news is, it's edible by a lot of things... Hermits, Urchins, Sea Hare's, Crabs, Lawnmower blenny, and plenty of other species you could bring in to control it/get rid of it.

My CUC is a bit small atm only 1 peppermint shrimp. 3 red legged hermits, 3 Astrea snails and 2 cerith snails. Tank is a 15g WB mini pennisula, it's only been up and running for about 4 months now. I do plan on transferring all of the coral and fish into my WB 35.2 AIO that I just started converting to salt in the next month or so.

Best I can do for white light is just turn my AI prime to full on since the den where I keep my tanks has no lights in it.

 

[JNalley]

So, turning off the blue channels temporarily and using only the white channel in the primes is best when we ask for white light shots... But I do think it's some form of hair algae based on the images so far... Look at www.reefcleaners.org or search Google for fish that eat it and get one of appropriate size for your tank