Nuisance Algae Guide, A work in progress

[budshaq]

Is this Gelidium? If so what gets rid of it? My nitrates and phosphates are at zero. My tank is over 6 years old, and this is starting to grow and spread. Please help. Tha white lines is where I added concentrated kalkwasser past to it to attempt to burn it off.

[johnmaloney]

hard to tell from that picture, it seems like one of those species, but it could be a chondria species and a couple others. Your best bet is an emerald crab, will help with the bubble. Even though your nutrients are low, there is not enough export to starve the algae, and the algae is likely helping you to get the "zero" readings.

[budshaq]

please look at thread help course red algae please help posted by me and see if you can see it better. There are more pictures there. Anything that likes to eat it? I have turbos, cerith and mixed hermits that dont seem to care about it.

[dent]

Thank you so much! You saved me hours and hours and hours!!

[johnmaloney]

Glad to hear it helped!

[BigJay]

I bought a small zoo colony that brought in every nuisance species in this thread except for dino's and the cyano of course.. even got two species of calaurpa. There was zero presence of the algae when i put the colony in the tank.
I never quarantined corals before but I'd give anything to do this one over. Fighting off bryopsis is the worst.
I would like to add that my ceriths snails hatched thousands of babies, those babies totally wiped out the hair algae from the tank.

[johnmaloney]

oh cool, good to hear it got taken care of, sorry it happened. Hard to tell sometimes, frags are often manually cleaned before sale, so you never know what is about to grow back.