tjohnson139
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My tank's fairly new - about three months old. I just bought a green star polyp about a week ago. My lfs said I have everything right - the right lighting, salinity, etc.
It did very well for a few days, then started growing brown algae. The algae is choking it out. It won't open, it's starting to die, etc.
My lfs said to give it an iodine bath and place it directly under my powerheads to try to force the algae off.
There's so much algae, though, that all it's doing is damaging the coral. The algae's not coming off.
Does anyone have any ideas? Is there anything I can do to save the coral and get the algae off, or is it pretty much guaranteed to die?
It did very well for a few days, then started growing brown algae. The algae is choking it out. It won't open, it's starting to die, etc.
My lfs said to give it an iodine bath and place it directly under my powerheads to try to force the algae off.
There's so much algae, though, that all it's doing is damaging the coral. The algae's not coming off.
Does anyone have any ideas? Is there anything I can do to save the coral and get the algae off, or is it pretty much guaranteed to die?