algae bed

What’s up everybody, just have a quick question. I am battling some sort of algae on my sand bed and have been for a couple of weeks now. They are like thousands of little individual balls of green algae, and I can’t find anywhere on what they might be. There is a ton of them and I do not know...

Key points: Refugiums and algae turf scrubbers can't run nutrients low enough to run an ultra low nutrient system; They make a system phosphate-limited, so you're always going to have residual nitrate; Algal exudates tint the water yellow and require protein skimming; Quote from 5:17: "[a...

Dinoflagellates or diatoms?, brown/reddish with a slimy coat on top, but it doesnt have the snotty bubble tips like dinoflagellates does. What you y'all think?

*** WARNING *** Don't you kids try this at home! Before After I was going to thin out the algae bed. It was so thick it just came out in one piece and threw it in the trash. The result was an NO3 spike. The corals turned brown and started tissue recession. One coral bleached out. Waiting...