Algae on my Orange Monti Digi

When I bought this Orange Monti Digi a week or two ago it had this algae on it and it has not left, any idea on how to get rid of it?

 

You could try to remove it by gently brushing with a tooth brush.

 

I occasionally get algae on my chilli coral. I use a turkey baster and blast it a bit with tank water. You could give that a go.

 

Yeah used a soft toothbrush and some little tweezers to pick the rest off.

 

Yep a tooth brush is essential marine keeping kit

 

I wouldn't brush it with a toothbrush because if you touch the healthy flesh of the coral, you could kill it. Algae only grows on dead coral skeletons so it's clear that the areas where that algae are growing do not have flesh on them. You can either improve your water quality and starve the algae out or you can snip the ends of the coral off. I would try improving water quality first.

 

Like stated above I bought the coral with the algae already attached to the coral ;D. And the system it came out of was pretty much perfect water quality.

 

Well, the algae is feeding off of something so "perfect water quality" it ain't