Algae with air bubbles plz help

[mike030987]

So I have a biocube 29 reef with tunze 9002 skimmer and trickle tower filter for filtration. I have been noticing that I have been getting much more algae and air bubbles in that algae than ever. I have done numerous water changes and checked all levels and the seem to be fine. I literally just cleaned the tank again and not 3 hours layers it's worse than before. Plz help and let me know what why and how to get rid of if you have any ideas. Will post pics when I can get a decent pic. Thanks

 

[Turbosnail]

Sounds like dinoflagellates if it is then the water changes are making it worse. Do a search for dinos on the forum there have been a bunch of threads about it.

 

[JohnK]

Try reaching in and touching / grabbing the growth. Does it feel like nothing and more or less fall apart, or does it feel like slimy snot?

 

[mike030987]

Yes it does feel a tad slimy, always worse with lights on also.

 

[jt628]

Yes it does feel a tad slimy, always worse with lights on also.

Do the Airbubbles look like a sting of balloons?

 

[JohnK]

Can you post a pic or two? We are either talking about cyano or dinoflagellates. They are very different animals to deal with and pics will make ID a lot easier. (does sound like dinos though, that's not good)

 

[northeastern]

I have these bubbles too, mine doesn't seem awfully snotty more just like little air bubbles are stuck to short brown/redish algae on the rock and back wall

 

[stingythingy45]

9 out of 10 are cyanobacteria,not an algae at all.

 

[elaminator]

9 out of 10 are cyanobacteria,not an algae at all.

Just curious....what's the best cure for it?

 

[stingythingy45]

Reduce nutrient by feeding less.
More flow to get detritus up off the sand and to the skimmer.
Water changes.

Curious,do you feed corals?And if you do what is it?

 

[elaminator]

Reduce nutrient by feeding less.
More flow to get detritus up off the sand and to the skimmer.
Water changes.

Curious,do you feed corals?And if you do what is it?

I do marine snow and reef chili once/wk. I don't overfeed but the damn bubbles are nuisance and not to mention an eye soar, does Chemi Clean has any product that would help.

 

[stingythingy45]

I do marine snow and reef chili once/wk. I don't overfeed but the damn bubbles are nuisance and not to mention an eye soar, does Chemi Clean has any product that would help.

I feed reef chili but very,very sparingly.Reason I asked is because I had issues with cyano and found that frozen cyclopeeze was the case.
Boyds chemiclean works well for a reboot.Just make sure you shut the skimmer off and be ready for a lot of water changes.
The skimmer will keep foaming over until most of the stuff is out of the system.