Whites all the way up no red, green, uv, violet, royal blue or blue. A couple tiny parts have strings of slime maybe 5 or 6 strings that I can see when looking closely at my entire tanks sandbed.
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Whites all the way up no red, green, uv, violet, royal blue or blue. A couple tiny parts have strings of slime maybe 5 or 6 strings that I can see when looking closely at my entire tanks sandbed.
Get any conch snail is fine. I have a strawberry conch. When you are buying one look for the long elephant like trunk they have that sucks on dirt those are the ones you wantAnd what kind of conch snails should I add?
You reckon you can remove some of that slime and put it under your microscope?
I posted the pics from the microscope I got in the mail today on the 1st page of this post. Here’s the pic again.
I dose phytoplankton to feed my pods but not the microbacter7diatoms and dinoflagellates (dinos) are similar but very different in treatment. Diatoms blooms will end once your aquarium has an established biofilter. Conch's should do fine mixing up your sand and keeping the diatoms from growing. Your tank will benefit from dosing phytoplankton and microbacter7 as well.
Make sure to run carbon and use rodi water.
And I use to/do but no carbonI dose phytoplankton to feed my pods but not the microbacter7
This looks like what I have. Was it diatoms? It dissipates when I blow the sand then comes back again.I use good rodi water for ato and making fresh saltwater with fritz pro and after a weekly water change and a sandbed siphoning everything looks good for a few hours and then I notice areas that the brown algae stuff is back again and then over the next few days it becomes more and more until the next water change etc. It looks like there’s more during the day then at night but it is still clearly there during the dark hours. This stuff is only on the sandbed not on the rocks or corals and I get a some on the areas of the glass close to the sand bed. Here’s some up close pictures with the blues, uv & violet off and the whites all the way up on my prime hds to get more of a real look on the algae. Without getting a microscope can anyone who just knows by sight if this is leaning more towards diatoms or dinoflagellates and from there i’ll assess whether or not to get a microscope (if it’s in fact dinoflagellates) to find out which specific strain I’m dealing with (if needed) and then what method I should use to eradicate this nuisance. Any help is appreciated.