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I thing I'm going through the ugly stage, my tank is 1ish month old, but I'm confused ! Can someone confirm me this algea is indeed diatom and not Dino or cynao ?! The microbubbles on it make me doubt a little bit ! First appears of this brown algea was 2 days ago!
Not really...
I was hoping someone could help me identify these Dino’s so I can come up with a plan of attack any help would be appreciated. I am running a small uv and trying to get my nutrients up. I have lowered my lights and shortened my light cycle. I’ve also been dosing phyto and have added pods. But...
My thought is this is Amphidinium. agree?
Some seem to have more pronounced beaks than others.
Looking at the display tank, there are some small areas of mats on sand in certain areas.
Some long strands of dinos that cling to corals and glass.
2 pictures here
2 videos here
Video 1 (I...
Hi all, have dinos. Does anyone know what type these are and the b st way to get rid of them. Have started a 3 day blackout tonight, used dr Tim’s eco balance sat, doing week microbacter this week, installing 25w Aqua uv tomorrow (100g Red Sea tank). Nitrates at 4.6, phos at 0.02, salinity 35...
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I recently have noticed my sandbed getting dirtier than normal. I will do my daily maintenance of stirring the sandbed but notice it will return in less than an hour. It also seems to almost fully disappear when the lights are off and return when the lights come back on. I read I could...
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For the last month I’ve been battling with what I believe is Dino’s. They slowly seem to be disappearing and have only ever stayed on my rockwork, wavemakers and back panel of my Fluval flex tank. Ive changed the filter floss every other day which has helped massively and fed more...
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I’ve been running my 15 gallon reef tank for about 4 months now, and a month ago I moved it to my college town, and things settled in and were great. I noticed some brown on the sand; thinking it was diatoms, I let it be and was just planning on riding it out. I recently started to...
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So microscope confirms that I have Dinos. Having a hard time doing a definitive ID. If it helps, they are toxic and have killed all my snails.
Time to research how to get rid of them now.
So I'm dealing with dinos. What are these and how to I rid them? Also there's got to be a pod of some sort and some thin things. Help to id these please.
What I thought were Diatoms turned out to be Dinos on most of substrate and tank walls. I bought a microscope to verify. Photos and video are attached.
These were my parameters last night Before I dosed Phosphate per some research cause they were bottomed out.
Temp 81
Salinity 1.026
Ca 340
KH 8...
Thought this was diatoms at first but then after cleaning the sandbed and it coming back the same day just like it was before I realized it was something more so I decided to microscope it now just looking for a positive I.D and advice on how to go to war. My nitrates where sround 5ppm for...
Last two weeks my take has been taken over by this ugly stuff and I’m not positive what it is and I do not want to take action if it is the wrong ID and course of action. If anyone could help me figure it out I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks in advance!
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Hi guys! Can anyone help me ID what dinos I'm dealing with? Based on the circular structure in the center of the cell and the symmetrical oval shape I'm guessing Prorocentrum.
Also, is it possible that I have 2 kinds of dinos? Some of them...
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I've went fallow on my tank for a couple months due to a velvet outbreak. During this time I started to get some GHA throughout the tank and it slowly turned into this webby reddish algae. I was thinking about getting some fish soon since the velvet is more than eradicated by now, but I...
So, no matter what I do, I keep having this reddish/brown coating come back again and again. The system itself has been up and running for 16 months, and I transferred it from a 60-gallon tank to a WaterBox Marine X 110.4 in August of this year. I've tried vacuuming the film off of the sand...
Background:
Tank approx 8 months old
Testing nitrates and phosphates every 2-3 days. Nitrates average between 7-5. Phosphate have always read zero. Using Hannah to test (not ULN just regular Phosphate). Attached pictures of what is growing all over my rocks. When disturbed it acts “dusty” and...
Hi everyone. I have had my 20g up and running for 6 months now and have recently encountered. Sorry for the poor photo quality but my microscope does not magnify much more while maintaining clarity.
Please help identify the type of dino and what you guys have experienced in the best way to...
What’s up everyone, just have a quick question on what I got in the tank. Is it Cyano or Dinos? This tank has been up and running for 2 months and I have not had this algae but till about 2 weeks ago. I use an Ai Prime for the light mainly for my GSP. Just wondering what this is and what I can...
I have been dealing with algae on my sand bed for the past few months. The tank is now 8 months old and was set up with dry rock and live sand. I did have a bottom out of nutrients a few months back and feared it was Dino’s.
I raised nitrate to 10 and phosphate to .1, added uv, dosed MB7, ran 5...
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I have a Innovative marine fusion pro 25 lagoon. It just finished cycling a couple weeks ago, i finally noticed some algae other then the ones i saw during the cycle start to appear. However, unfortunately it may be dinos. Can anyone help me id this to verify? From what i can...
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I have set a new tank up and it’s around 10 days old at this point.
Over the last two days a huge coating of brown algae I believe to be diatoms has covered my rocks, sand and glass.
however it is also covered in air bubbles which makes me think it’s not diatoms...
I am battling dinos currently and just wanted to ask. Is my answer as simple as I think?
I am thinking all I have to do is dose phosphate to get rid of them.
My current parameters are:
Temp 74-75
Salt 1.025
Amonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrate 10
Phos 0
Cal 400
Mag 1340
Alk 8.0