Algae ID - Microscope Shots

[bevo5]

Ok. So I finally got my $30 microscope in! These aren't the best shots ever, but I'm very surprised by how good they actually are. Kids love looking at the stuff swimming around, so good purchase.

Anyway.

Here is the situation. Very maroon-ish algae growing on one side of the tank. Just on the sand. Kind of mats together but gone ASAP when lights go out. I've done 5 doses of Peroxide (1ml/10g) and I feel like it's actually getting worse.

BUT - here are the photos. I'm thinking dinos...the third image has some more stalk-types.

http://imgur.com/a/88Gj4
http://imgur.com/a/m8kPg
http://imgur.com/a/Bp3oL

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Can you also post the regular pic. Please

 

[bevo5]

Tank stuff:

200g
I recently went fallow and had a nitrate issue. It hit zero. Phosphates ballooned up to .16. Now I'm dosing potassium nitrate and got nitrate to about 1ppm. Phosban reactor is up and nitrates falling.

 

[bevo5]

Can you also post the regular pic. Please

Righto - I'll go grab a couple real quick

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Righto - I'll go grab a couple real quick

Ooops dint mean to make you hop up.

 

[bevo5]

Here are some tank shots - it's more red in real life, but shows up brown here.

http://imgur.com/a/220dp
http://imgur.com/a/lUuOc
http://imgur.com/a/au60r

 

[bevo5]

Ooops dint mean to make you hop up.

ha - no worries.

 

[bevo5]

Based on a few links I've found I'm leaning towards Amphidinium sp.

They don't spin around like crazy, just kind of swim around moving through the water.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Ummm Hard to say, at first glance its a low level colony build up... either a diatom, dinoflagellate, or cyano,,,
going w dino.
https://www.google.com/search?q=din...2-PSAhUBIWMKHctzAhAQ_AUICCgB&biw=1920&bih=950
http://bio1151.nicerweb.com/Locked/media/ch28/dino.html