red algae

[schrade]

I have red algae in my tank! Not sure what to use to get rid of it.
50 gallon
13 astrea snails
5 turbo
purple tang
marron/gold clown
bi-color basslet
6line wrasse
yellow damsel
50# live rock
some corals
mushrooms
ro water
nitrate 12.5
ammonia 0
lights stay on for 12 hours only. jbj compacts

 

[randolph]

i had it too. i used an anti-bacterial med you can buy at any lfs
and i used it with all my hermits in the tank. they are all fine, don't think i had any snails in the tank at that time. but put a couple of mex turbo snail in there they are great. 2 keep my 55
free of all algae. get some other opinions about using med with critters in the tank though. they will probably tell you no way. i did and all are fine, thats my expirence. i just noticed that yo0u have lr and some corals, better get some better advice i'm just a rookie

 

[xrayman]

What kind of water are you using?What are your phosphate levels?

 

[jarre]

I found that my ALK was down and Phos was up. The first thing I did was pull as much out of the tank by hand as possible then straighten out the ALK and Phos. Took about a week and hasn't come back since.

 

[saltywashington]

try and do water changes and see how old the filters on your RO filter are, they might need to be changed. I would be careful about the med solution with the corals.

 

[ntvflgirl]

My fighting conch loves the stuff. nibbles on it all the time. Hopefully it will be gone soon. Just my .02 cents worth.