SHAZELEY
Supporting Member
Ok fellow reefers. I'm starting to see green buble algae in only my refugium. Display tank still looks great. Should I be alarm about this??
+1 Something in your display tank may be eating or preventing the bubble algae from getting a hold onto the surfaces there. Unless you want bubble algae in your display, potentially in plague portions, you should remove it carefully from your refugium as Diesel suggested.....Manual remove the bubble algae, try not to break the bubble.
I had a 40 breeder set up a while ago just to have a ton of BA on rocks and went after it with MA and it took some time but after three weeks it was gone.
I injected the bubble with a tiny squirt of MA in the bubble using a sharp syringe.
You will kill the seeds in the BA and you will kill the BA at the same time, it will turn white in less than 24 hrs and fish or bacteria will go after it.
All you do is slowly breaking the cycle of BA.
So I can still do it with my foxface in there. That's good to know.
Don't break the bubbles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've oddly never had a bubble algae outbreak. I even had a bubble or two in my sump for 5 years.
Then I removed all fish and I had an outbreak. Same setup for tank maintenance, I didn't change a thing.
I put the fish back in and poof, all started dying off again. Go figure. I'll let everyone draw their own conclusions.