dino or hair algae? or somethingelse

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  1. serega

    serega Astrea Snail

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    Keeping fighting with this algae and have no idea what is it
     

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  3. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    It is a dry heat, yeah right !
    Unfortunately that does look more like Dino.

    What is your pH?

    What I did:

    1. Use turkey baster to clean all the substrate and corals daily sometimes twice. Then clean mechanical filtration once it's has settled.
    2. Maintain a pH of 8.2 or higher 24/7.
    3. Complete black out for 4 days.
    4. No water changes just top off.
    5. Back off lighting photoperiod if I saw it start to become invasive again.

    It's a slow process.

    Check phos and nitrate levels just to make sure you do not have other issues.
     
  4. serega

    serega Astrea Snail

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    Tnx for quick response! Yes I did it before it was gone for one week and now start back up again. How I find out it starting after lights change. So I put additional leds green red and whites< so white is have yellow shade maybe that happened. Yesturday I did take out red ones (put them in refugium). How I understaining the 455nm doesn't matter for algae? I leave them on. Will try maintain ph for 8.4 and above
     
  5. serega

    serega Astrea Snail

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    Additional my po4 and nitrates not detectable at this point