HELP ID Algae

[WidebodyFish]

I've got this green algae growing like crazy. Can anybody ID it ? what fish can i get to eat it ? I have naso, hippo and yellow tangs an they aren't eating it....

 

[duke62]

looks like hair algae.check your po4 with a reliable test kit.emerald craps takes care of that for me.

 

[WidebodyFish]

This outbreak happened after i took my Biopellets off

 

[duke62]

did you take the bio pellets out little at a time or 1 shot.can i ask why u removed the bio pelletts

 

[WidebodyFish]

removed all pellets at one time. it was killing my cheato and bleaching corals

 

[wonderballz]

Sounds like a rebound/spike of PO4 after stopping the bio pellets. My CUC took care of all my GHA when I started up my tank. Not sure what fish will eat GHA though

 

[Anthony.Luciano710]

naso tangs eat green hair algae like crazy. i used to have one before it sadly died from ich but i put it in and from day one to the day it died it ate hair algae all day.

Sounds like a rebound/spike of PO4 after stopping the bio pellets. My CUC took care of all my GHA when I started up my tank. Not sure what fish will eat GHA though

 

[reefboys]

try a fox face they love to eat any algae,do some water changes.

 

[fishman1069]

Do alot of water changes, slow down on feeding, add a phosban reactor and maybe borrow a sea hare for a month. That should get rid of it for you. I had a bunch of that crap and tried a whole lot of things to get rid of it. I raise my Mag to like 1600, thinking it was briopsis. I also tried dosing H2O2( for like a week) but that just led to a bacterial bloom. The 4 things I mentioned in the first sentence, is what did it for me.

 

[WidebodyFish]

I have a phosban (ROWA) running my p04 using a hanna digital meter is .25. I have 2 sea hares they aren't eating it either. I'm gonna do more water change and shut down Metal halides.