About Algae in General

About How To Control Algae
From your About Guides Featured Articles Archive, learn what basic factors allow algae to grow, what steps you can take to control them, as well as prevent nuisance outbreaks in the first place.

About Nitrate Control
Your About Guides discuss how allowing nitrates to accumulate in a saltwater aquarium goes hand-in-hand with algae problems, and what can be done to prevent this situation in the first place.

About Reef Tank Janitors - Hermit Crabs
Your About Guides give an overall profile on hermit crabs in general as good scavengers, things to consider before buying one, and which types are considered to be some of the best algae eating reef tank janitors.

About Reef Tank Janitors - Marine Snails
Your About Guides profile marine snails of the Gastropoda class, and which species are considered to be some of the best algae eating reef tank janitors to have.

About Reef Tank Janitors - True Crabs
Your About Guides profile true crabs of the Subphylum Crustacea - Class Malacostraca, and which species are considered to be reef and non-reef safe.

About Reef Tank Janitors - What They Are and What They Do
Your About Guides give their explanation of what reef tank janitors are and discuss what tasks they perform in saltwater aquariums and reef tanks.

About the Chlorophyta Phylum - Part 1
An algae profile by your About Guides, this Introduction to Green Algae provides basic characteristics information about the many types of green algae found in the Chlorophyta Phylum.

Algae: Part One of Two
From the Suite101.com site, the first part of Winston Vaughan Schoenfeld Algae article that helps to understand what allows algae to survive.

Algae: Part Two of Two
From the Suite101.com site, this second part of Winston Vaughan Schoenfeld algae article discusses the lighting, phosphate, dissolved organic compound, and carbon dioxide aspects of algae growth.

Algae Control
Tom Phillips (The Reef Guy) explains what contributes to the growth of brown diatoms, red slime (cyanobacteria), green hair, and bubble algae problems, and what to do about them.

Algae Control
From Reeftank.com, information on how to deal with problem brown diatom, red slime (cyanobacteria), and green hair algae.

Algae Control in the Marine Aquarium
From the ADMA Handouts page, John H. Tullock writes in great detail about algae and provides a list of suggested methods for eliminating algae problems in a marine aquarium.

Algae Problems - Every Aquarists Nightmare
From the AquaSite Articles Index, Cory Miller provides some insight as to why algae problems occur and what you can do about them.

Conquering Algae Problems in Reef Aquaria
From Jeff Pfohl's Marine & Reef Aquaria Archive, exchanges between hobbyists with all kinds of questions and answers that discusses this common problem.

Slime, Goo and Hair Discussions
From the Aquarium.net Articles Archive, Ronald L. Shimek delves into the overall diversity and biology of algae, and indivdually profiles the characteristics of and solutions for curing red slime (cyanobacteria), brown slime (dinoflagellates), diatoms, and green hair algae, as well as a few other common green, red (coralline), and brown macroalgae species.

The Relationship of Light and Algae
From Thiel's Marine Infobase site, this Q & A from Albert Thiel sheds some light on an aquarist's perpetuating problem with algae growth.