dinos or diatom

Ive got a brown/green/red slime on my sandbed. Its only on the sandbed, the rocks are completely clear of it. It does seem to disappear or get a lot less visible when the lights go out at night. It clumps together on the sandbed like a mat. It doesnt blow off like dust. I didnt used to clean...

I only have this brown bubbly nuisance (Dino’s?) on these few frags currently (I have two racks and only one has this on it which seems to have spread to multiple neighboring frags on that rack). I’m wondering if I should remove the affected frags to my QT to treat with hydrogen peroxide or...

I know there are thousands of threads about this but I can’t seem to get a straight answer reading through them! So quick back story. I started up a 20gal tank and had it going for about 2 months, but I came across a good deal on a new tank so I set up a 65 gal tank with a 20 gal sump and...

This is a golden color and defiantly gets some bubble shapes. It comes, I clean it out manually and don't have too much problem then comes back.

Hi all, first post here, and relatively new to the hobby as well. My tank (25G) is a very, very new tank, being about a month old. My current Parameters are as follows: Salinity: 1.025 Temp: 27 - 29 degrees celcius over course of day Ammonia: 0.15 Nitrates: 0.25 - 0.5 Phos: 0.1 - 0.25 Mg...

I am planing on using a microscope in an attempt to identify the type of dinos that I have. In your experience, for what type of Dinos does Sillicate dosing work?

I've been having problem with what I'm guessing are dinos, but I'm not sure. Any thoughts on how to fix this and what the problem is. I've seen the "dinos" pop up for the last couple weeks, but it's starting to spread exponentially since. Any thoughts on what this is, how I can solve it and what...

Hello everybody, I have had my reefer 425xl running about a year now and my corals and fish are thriving. here are my parameters which remain stable: salinty - 1.026 KH - 9 Ca - 450 Mg -1280 Ph- 8.2 Ammonia - 0 Nitrate - 2 Phosphate - 0 I have an annoying algae issue which I believe is Dinos...

Hi all, I’ve noticed an increase of brown patches on my sand bed. 5 days ago my phosphate was 0.22, today my phosphate is 0.07. Do you think it’s dino’s or diatoms? Not the clearest shot but hopefully you’ll be able to tell?

Hello, 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...

Does anyone have an idea what this could be? I have had them pop up on the past and I thought it was Dino’s, but it disappeared for a while and now has made its way back, but now more than ever. Should I dose vibrant? Thank you!

I have just purchased a microscope after believing that my diatom outbreak looked slightly different than usual with bubbles in them. the photos are below and some microscopic photos what do we think ?

Hello, so I have been into the reefing hobby for about a year and a half now and about 4 months ago I purchased this 30 gallon tank and cycled it, and placed a few fish and corals in. I am at about the 3-4 month mark and all of the sudden this strongly algae began to grow very quickly and in a...