Les Poissons
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New tank (13.5 Evo) 11 weeks old.
Brown stuff (mostly) on sand on the bottom. Looks dusty and a little clumpy. Not stringy or snotty. A few bubbles, but after shutting down skimmer for 24 hours bubbles are gone. Think it was just micro-bubbles from the skimmer clinging to whatever they could. Parameters have been stable for 4+ weeks, except that PO4 has been at or close to zero:
sg : 1.025
pH: 8.0
NO3: 5
dKH: 8.7-9.0
Mg: 1460
Ca: 430
PO4: 0.00 - 0.01
Mostly confined to the sand in medium light and medium flow. Definitely seem to be photosynthetic as they proliferate during the day No livestock has been affected to date.
Pulled a sample of the brown stuff from the tank and it looks like dinos to me. Definitely not diatoms. Dino specific Facebook group says not dinos though. Any ideas?
Aggressive feeding has moved PO4 to 0.06 and NO3 to 10 in the last couple days.
Hopefully the video attaches to this post…
New tank (13.5 Evo) 11 weeks old.
Brown stuff (mostly) on sand on the bottom. Looks dusty and a little clumpy. Not stringy or snotty. A few bubbles, but after shutting down skimmer for 24 hours bubbles are gone. Think it was just micro-bubbles from the skimmer clinging to whatever they could. Parameters have been stable for 4+ weeks, except that PO4 has been at or close to zero:
sg : 1.025
pH: 8.0
NO3: 5
dKH: 8.7-9.0
Mg: 1460
Ca: 430
PO4: 0.00 - 0.01
Mostly confined to the sand in medium light and medium flow. Definitely seem to be photosynthetic as they proliferate during the day No livestock has been affected to date.
Pulled a sample of the brown stuff from the tank and it looks like dinos to me. Definitely not diatoms. Dino specific Facebook group says not dinos though. Any ideas?
Aggressive feeding has moved PO4 to 0.06 and NO3 to 10 in the last couple days.
Hopefully the video attaches to this post…
