Have you ever spotted nasty-looking brown patches on diverse surfaces in your reef tank and wondered what they were? Well, those brown irregularities are known as brown algae or diatoms, and...
Category: Algae
Today I am going to talk about how to grow marine microalgae. Marin macroalgae is a group of multicellular and unicellular organisms that exist predominantly on coral reefs, oceans, seas, and...
Do We Need to Use UV Sterilizers? It is common knowledge that aquariums are susceptible to algal blooms, parasitic invasions and spread of pathogens regardless of proper aquarium cleaning...
The infestation of Bubble algae is definitely one of the worst scenarios you can encounter in a heavily stocked reef aquarium. Bubble algae exist as unicellular organisms with spherical or...
Compsopogon sp. (also known in the aquarium hobby as Staghorn algae) is a freshwater red alga of the family Compsopogonaceae. In nature, these algae are widely distributed throughout the world,...
How to remove algae, and hair algae in particular, is one of the most common problems in the aquarium hobby. Algae has been the bane of our existence since … forever! Even though every...