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?