My Experience with Reef Tank Pests & Algae: How I Dealt With Them!

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Nasty creatures, all of em!!
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00:00 in this video
00:46 cyanobacteria
03:55 green hair algae & bryopsis
07:46 bubble algae
09:41 vermatid snails
11:57 aiptasia
15:02 anthillia coral

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  • @QueenofReef
    @QueenofReef11 ай бұрын

    What vids would you like to see next? 💙

  • @rubenespinosa1685

    @rubenespinosa1685

    11 ай бұрын

    I would like to see the engine room and how it’s been helping out with your gorgeous system.

  • @ericberg4397

    @ericberg4397

    11 ай бұрын

    Have you ever Fallowed a tank and used black molly fish to test it after the Fallow? They are really good algae eaters too. If not that.. Auto water changes?

  • @progressivemr.j1225

    @progressivemr.j1225

    2 ай бұрын

    Barnacles on corals please!!!

  • @jimmurpby2208
    @jimmurpby220811 ай бұрын

    Yes agree your sump setup walkthrough video would be great ..love the videos welcome back

  • @lynnthalas
    @lynnthalas11 ай бұрын

    Great video, really solid advice on some of the nuisance pests of the hobby. This made my saved list as I am getting ready to get back into the hobby after a 20 year hiatus.

  • @ancientdashaquatics
    @ancientdashaquatics11 ай бұрын

    Duuuuuuuude!!!!! Thank you for the green hair Algae and bryopsis bit! You just helped diagnose my tank and gave me a better method to tackle it. You’re the bomb diggity!

  • @user-xe5tm8fb7k
    @user-xe5tm8fb7k3 ай бұрын

    Just found your channel. What a great video I’m hooked now.

  • @Jett-Jackson
    @Jett-Jackson11 ай бұрын

    What an awesome video! Thank you so much! Love it

  • @MyFirstFishTank
    @MyFirstFishTank11 ай бұрын

    Super helpful video and fun to watch! Keep up the great work!

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    Thank you 🥹💙

  • @christineschultz3176
    @christineschultz317611 ай бұрын

    I so much enjoy watching you know reefing real well and explain so clearly and a bit humor to boot so we feel better 😊

  • @cooljrwilson5850
    @cooljrwilson585011 ай бұрын

    Would love to see a coral 🪸 placement video!!! Love your work

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    I have a few of those coming soon!! ☺️

  • @dragonshadow3707
    @dragonshadow370711 ай бұрын

    Hey new to your channel love the video so thanks I will definitely go back and watch your older video to catch up keep reefing.

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    Welcome aboard !! 😊

  • @YellowLeafAquatics
    @YellowLeafAquatics11 ай бұрын

    Great video!!

  • @blueballs_m135i8
    @blueballs_m135i88 ай бұрын

    wow thanks for the information and some things I have not tried yet lol. Keep them videos coming any information tips or tricks my ears and eyes are open. I am battling aiptasia & and green algae now possible the one you talked about in your video so going to make changes and see what happens. All so new subby here got a red sea reefer 250 waiting to get wet :)

  • @thereefrant8623
    @thereefrant862311 ай бұрын

    Great Video!

  • @reelbocafishing5904
    @reelbocafishing590411 ай бұрын

    very informative, great video

  • @Botzz28
    @Botzz2811 ай бұрын

    Cyanobacteria comes on when there is low nitrates and phosphates not high!

  • @jhaych
    @jhaych11 ай бұрын

    With bubble algae I found reducing nitrates and phosphates, adding urchins and emerald crabs along with reducing feeding and not doing water changes for a while helps, as the fresh salt seems to feed it due to the fresh trace elements etc!

  • @dusk1947
    @dusk194711 ай бұрын

    Very good video, with good advice

  • @lpz9787
    @lpz978711 ай бұрын

    An Australian stripey also works for aptaisia it doesn't eradicate them but atleast it keeps them from overpopulating your tank

  • @queencityreefs
    @queencityreefs11 ай бұрын

    Great video 👌🏻💯✌🏻

  • @lyndonbennett2805
    @lyndonbennett280511 ай бұрын

    Great video 👍

  • @MichaelKlein-dr9hu
    @MichaelKlein-dr9hu11 ай бұрын

    Just wanted to Thank u for finally identifying me Alge/Snail infestation u are the first to help with proper identification of problems. I have mad Briopsis alge, Red slime alge, and the cherry ontop Vermated Snails. Thanks for the recommendation recommendation of

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    Yay I’m so glad this was helpful!!

  • @fantasyskeep
    @fantasyskeep4 ай бұрын

    My bumblebees eat vermetid snails and I have never seen one on another snail that hadn't been already overturned by a crab and killed.

  • @rubenespinosa1685
    @rubenespinosa168511 ай бұрын

    At Queen can you do another video of your sump would I’ve to see your engine room again great vid as always 👍🏼 you never disappoint.

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    Oof better get to cleaning then 😅😂 Will add to the list!

  • @swordsman111982
    @swordsman11198211 ай бұрын

    In my main tank I have a couple emerald crabs and a One Spot Fox face, I have no nuisance algae in that tank currently. I set up a Pico tank and took some snails from the big tank and tossed them into the Pico. They almost immediately started growing bubble algae in there shells. I guess my crabs and Fox Face have been working overtime on the bubble algae in the big tank, that I didn’t have any visible.

  • @MrMelville100
    @MrMelville10010 ай бұрын

    We have a similar tank to you - the 200g Waterbox 7225 peninsula. 2 years in and we have an aiptasia explosion. We have been using Aiptasia X but after like the third bottle we added 10 berghia nudis about a week ago. I will do my best to remember to let you know how we get on as we have 2 leopard star wrasse (aka peacock wrasse) one male and one female. Wish us luck with Cyril and Cynthia! They are usually tucked into (the sand) bed before lights out. 😂

  • @jules2545
    @jules254511 ай бұрын

    I only recently added urchins to my tank and they are algae eating machines. They do like a spot of coraline which is OK with me. One of my urchins picked up a massive mushroom. It makes me smile seeing this urchin disguised as a Discosoma trundling around the tank.

  • @leroycline8849
    @leroycline884911 ай бұрын

    Awesome video. I have a question that's probably been asked a thousand times. Where did you get the light shades?

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    So they’re just regular ol’ light shades that I retrofitted my lights into !

  • @leroycline8849

    @leroycline8849

    11 ай бұрын

    @@QueenofReef awesome. Remember where you got them?

  • @user-xd6rm2vl4v
    @user-xd6rm2vl4v11 ай бұрын

    Thank you you really helped me

  • @joedoyle785
    @joedoyle7852 ай бұрын

    its me Anthelia !! I'm still hiding in your Reef muhahahaha :)

  • @strat1960s
    @strat1960s11 ай бұрын

    Im dealing with a second bout with aptasia. I use a laser when they are not close to corals. I have also used Berghia. However, this second time around, the lil bugers are in my overflow box. That is going to be the biggest challenge. I really do not want to tear my overflow box apart.

  • @joanhoyt2087
    @joanhoyt20872 ай бұрын

    Where can I find the fluconazole you showed in the video?

  • @sandyraymondlowewong9705
    @sandyraymondlowewong97056 ай бұрын

    Hi, you never got majano anemones or flatworms? Those are a pain!

  • @uncledd1067
    @uncledd106711 ай бұрын

    I’ve used file fish and they eat aiptasia like they were potato chips! 😅

  • @FreshReef
    @FreshReef11 ай бұрын

    Great video, I´m facing the bryopsis for over 1.5 yrs and thinking of fluconazole treatment. Hope it will not hurt my corals and fish. BTW, thanks for your clear English as it isn´t my mother language ;)

  • @loopylou7813

    @loopylou7813

    8 ай бұрын

    As long as you follow the dosing it works like a charm, I would recommend doing a normal water change before treating the tank and not doing another for at least 2 weeks , and all should be gone

  • @FreshReef

    @FreshReef

    8 ай бұрын

    @@loopylou7813 thanks I will follow the recommendations. If I understand it correctly, both the skimmer and the media reactor should also be off. I mean, running open skimmer and no media in reactor (phosphate minus or so) for 2 weeks.

  • @loopylou7813

    @loopylou7813

    8 ай бұрын

    @@FreshReef yes skimmer and chemical media should be bypassed/ turned off ect I did however only shut my skimmer down for the 1st week after treatment

  • @FreshReef

    @FreshReef

    8 ай бұрын

    @@loopylou7813 good to know, thanks!

  • @MichaelKlein-dr9hu
    @MichaelKlein-dr9hu11 ай бұрын

    Recommendation on how to treat. I have 180gal that I took over from my dad who passed away 5 years ago.

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    What kind of issues are you having? I’m sorry to hear of your loss 😔

  • @josephsachleben6081
    @josephsachleben608111 ай бұрын

    My filefish ate my aiptasia, but she also liked to snack the the tentacles of my torch coral

  • @Noodleanrgry
    @Noodleanrgry10 ай бұрын

    use flucanazol 4 times the recommended dose an dkeep it running without water change for 5 weeks. it will kill off all pest. (Did in my 2 times (SPS tank) did not lose any coral and cleaned all up

  • @jonathanreich9694
    @jonathanreich969411 ай бұрын

    I made the mistake of buying some pretty mushrooms that had some ugly brown palys on them. Being a beginner at the time I thought cool free stuff!! The owner of the store said that he would give me the palys for free since I was buying the mushrooms. Turned out to be not cool!! Three years later, the palys are all over the place, and I constantly have to scrub the rocks to get them off. Fortunately there has been no problems with palio toxins when I scrub the palys off the rocks. They have not affected the other corals. Also, at one point in time I bought some brown star polyps, which are now also all over the place I have to scrub them down on a regular basis also. It’s really a pain in the wazoo!!

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    So I’m not the only one 🥲😭

  • @rubenespinosa1685
    @rubenespinosa168511 ай бұрын

    I had two turbo snail die in my tank recently and before I found out they died I was getting a red bryopsy type film algae on my rocks and back glass long story short when I liked the shells I noticed that they 3:42 moved freely and when I picked the shells up they fell out the shell with the most horrible smell I ever encountered 😷🤧but yea they were the culprit of that algae bloom.

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    I swear there is no worse smell in the world than a dead turbo snail 🤣

  • @AngryBullBBQ
    @AngryBullBBQ6 ай бұрын

    peppermint shrimp ate my aptaisa took about 3 weeks

  • @aaronfitz2892
    @aaronfitz289211 ай бұрын

    When getting a copper band don't get one for apstasia cuz they never eat them, lol or at least that's been my luck. I have 2 one in a 75 and 1 in a 180 and they both don't eat it. LOL

  • @noelkinney
    @noelkinney4 ай бұрын

    Salty Bottom Reef have your gold band

  • @BryznsReef
    @BryznsReef11 ай бұрын

    Cyano, aiptasia, and vermatid are the worst I also experience cyano if my nutrients are super low also for those battling with aiptasia I reccomend *F Aiptasia* and *NOT aiptasia X* it only made my problem worst !

  • @6jdhd
    @6jdhd11 ай бұрын

    Red slime algae is not from high nutrients. It's an imbalance of bacteria diversity. This happens when you P04 and N03 bottom out to zero, and your bacteria feeds off bacteria instead of nutrients. Bryopsis looks totally different from hair algae. If you look at pic of air algae it looks like hair and is bright green. bryopsis is dark green and has branch leaves on it. They don't look the same at all.

  • @estonianreefer2851

    @estonianreefer2851

    11 ай бұрын

    That there proves a point that just because you have a reef tank and KZread channel and a reef related name to it doesn't mean that one knows what they are talking about. I feel that someone like her should at least fact check before making a video giving out advice with incorrect information.

  • @blackbird3456

    @blackbird3456

    6 ай бұрын

    Noob question here : can bryopsis be found on glass? If I have bryopsis, there’s not a lot. And I also got neomeris sp on one of my rock that got confused as bryopsis because it looked like foliage at the beginning of its growth. I’m only 5 or 6 months into this hobby.

  • @artistic_spaz3724
    @artistic_spaz372411 ай бұрын

    Vermetid snails are evil! I just added one bumblebee snail......will let you know if my nessarius snails are affected

  • @lifeofskittlesthekitty247
    @lifeofskittlesthekitty24711 ай бұрын

    Cerith snails are a big help for natural bio help removing cyno they will eat it

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    Did not know that! Very cool

  • @chphqchef8000
    @chphqchef800011 ай бұрын

    We get copperbands all the time we have 4 right now 3 are eating frozen food

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    Don’t get me all hyped up now 😂

  • @chphqchef8000

    @chphqchef8000

    11 ай бұрын

    @@QueenofReef I work at aqua life in Rocklin ca and we get then a lot just feed them and all are eating today

  • @rudra7615
    @rudra76157 ай бұрын

    Been a while since I got back into reefing. This girl has gotten finer! Lost weight, looking healthy. Happy for you!

  • @JackOfAllTrades0404

    @JackOfAllTrades0404

    4 ай бұрын

    Where did she ask your musty ass for your opinion on her body? QUICKLY

  • @mickromer6199
    @mickromer619911 ай бұрын

    I used aptaisia X and Worked really well but keeping my coral banded shrimp from eating the aptaisia X was an absolute mission.. I thought it would kill my shrimp but nope.. he thinks it's great 😂

  • @pgrow420
    @pgrow42011 ай бұрын

    live aquria have copper bands for 109.99 way over price and i dont trust live aquria have had a shady dealing with them but their out there and my LFS have some for 79.99 here in Vegas

  • @kennethallen3452
    @kennethallen345211 ай бұрын

    The lights all facing different directions is triggering my OCD 😅 Other than that I enjoyed the video.

  • @QueenofReef

    @QueenofReef

    11 ай бұрын

    I know right 🫠 Have to fix asap but waiting to save up for the extension cables

  • @mrsuarez430
    @mrsuarez4302 ай бұрын

    Red Slime is gross but easy the worst is bristle worms there's some nasty fkrs if possible dip your new coral or anything going in your tank this isn't a cheap hobby and I've seen tanks over run with aptasia bubble and worms from a pet store buy

  • @rubenespinosa1685
    @rubenespinosa168511 ай бұрын

    Queen Bulk Reef supply should really have you doing there videos you get right to the point and don’t ramble on the way he does on there videos thank you for your pest video very great information being that you have dealt with these pets on a personal level .👍🏼

  • @larsschurmann4773
    @larsschurmann47735 ай бұрын

    To be honest, you should put this video down. As a medical student, i think it is highly concerning that you throw antibiotics around like candy. I think you mentioned that you studied law or something? I really thought you would be smarter than that because of general knowledge and higher educating in high school i guess. German here so I hope I don't mix your school system up. You have often not even mentioned all biological solutions or have an understanding why you have certain problems.. Cyanos for examle are good at breaking up phosphorus deposits(thats why often in clean water on dirty sand) and are nitrogen fixer. Thats why cerithium snail are supposed to "eat" cyano because they have a high metabolism and offer other microbes amonia, which are than fighting against cyano. Also who the hell can't tell the difference between hair algea and bryopsis??? Hair algea are just strains of cells and bryopsis have clearly a leavy feathery structure to them if you get like 1 meter close to them. Also bryosis is mentioned in every list of typical reef tank problems.

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