Algae ID please, plus a bit of advice

[ADA]

I got this after a massive CO2 malfunction killed all my stock and half my plants melted, tank had a full start from scratch, filter cleaned, good maintenance regime but it's come back and it grows fast. Kind of like fast growing brown hair algae but when it's out of the tank it's slimy. Tried everything but keeps re growing. Wonder if anyone has an idea, tried all the above, sprayed with excel, tried antibiotics but no luck. One idea I had was to drain it and do the DSM but still worried the algae will grow emmersed.

Thanks in advance,

Steve.

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image by -hayleyyoung1984-

 

[Vivian Andrew]

Hi

Don't know what algae it is, but check the below link you may find some answers to it

http://www.aquariumplants.com/Articles.asp?ID=111

 

[Claire]

If you have a look here then you should be able to ID the algae and get a little advice too for getting rid of it.
Nomatter what algae type it is though, antibiotics won't ever kill it as they only act on bacteria!

 

[DrRob]

I'd call that one a Rhizocolonium. I've struggled with that for a time, but good CO2 and flow cleared it.

 

[ADA]

Well it seems to be slowing down now so fingers crossed the plants might out compete it soon, it was newly set up a few weeks ago so I'd imagine the plants have now started to pick up growth thanks guys

 

[ADA]

After that post I woke this morning to find it had taken off over night breaking this one down I think, gonna go for a completely new start, TMC sig, new lights, new everything

 

[tam]

I had what looks similar recently - both hairy looking and slimy at the same time and drifts off the catch around things when removing. I think I triggered it by swapping out my lights to two LEDs - obviously too much but it didn't go away when I dropped it down to one. I shortened my light period by a couple of hours, halved my ferts (as I'd started dosing more along with the lights and didn't know which was the issue) and manually removed it every couple of days (with a water change and rinsing filter pads after each go). It reduced over a couple of weeks and a couple of Otos and Amano shrimps have finished it off completely - don't seem to like the big strands but their poking/sucking stops it coming back after I've removed it.

 

[ADA]

Thanks for the advice, glad ya sorted it but mines now in the bin lol