Blue green algae caused by poor water conditions can form a layer on all of your decorations and substrate and if your fish stop swimming for a few minutes they start to resemble a moldy cupcake.
Reef energy causing algae.
Reef tank algae outbreaks will happen.
The algae inside coral can recover after bleaching once.
But when the zooxanthellae are under stress such as high temperatures they will die or leave their host a process known as bleaching.
Algae control comes down to controlling nitrates and phosphates.
It won t necessarily cure the problem once an algae has taken hold however.
Algae management a complete reef safe controllable solution for nitrate phosphate reduction no 3 po 4 x is the original safest most popular and best solution that provides a full reef safe controllable method for nitrate and phosphate reduction thereby boosting coral growth and coloration in any reef or marine fish system.
Additionally dosing magnesium or other additives can help with other algeas.
In exchange they have a place to live inside the animal s body.
Red algae which is caused by a lack of carbon dioxide in the water is really nasty and hangs.
What is known as green turf algae in the hobby is really a generic name given to hundreds of different species of macroalgae that describe certain similar characteristics.
In general trying to lower phosphates and nitrates can be helpful.
The benefit of this system is the combination of how n03 p04 x that takes out the bad stuff and reef energy a and b add in the good stuff and will lessen the stress of going low nutrient.
Do not think that just because your test kits read zero or low values that you do not have a problem.
These microscopic algae capture sunlight and convert it into energy just like plants to provide essential nutrients to the corals.
The high water temperatures stress reef building corals causing them to eject the photosynthetic algae that reside in their tissue.
If you have a problem with algae it is because these two nutrients are out of control.
Uv sterilizers may help with some algae types.
They are coarse wiry and generally have thicker wider blades than green hair algae.
Below i will list a general timeline of how fast vibrant works on frequent algae strains that cause issues in reef aquariums.
After one week my numbers have come down my algae seems less on glass and a few spots of ha my colors seem a little better my skim is much darker and my.
Cloudy hazy water 1 dose diatoms 1 2 doses cyanobacteria yes it will outcompete another bacteria 1 5 doses.
In many cases the algae is removing the nutrients and growing.
