Diatom bloom ?

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Haven’t tested in awhile but this became something new, haven’t changed anything out of the ordinary other then adding CUC
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Hard to tell as you have the blue turned up but looks more like algae to me.

Post some pictures with only the whites.
 
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Hard to tell as you have the blue turned up but looks more like algae to me.

Post some pictures with only the whites.
 

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Doesn’t look as bad with all white haha
 

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Checking your tank with all whites is a good idea as blues can hide a lot

Could still be algae, especially if only in the middle where the light is probably the strongest.

Doesn’t look any thing bad such as dinos, I would start testing tho.
 
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It looks like green hair algae to me! Diatoms happen to a new tank.
Well if that’s the case hopefully my ATS takes that crap out. I might know the root to my question though. If I’m correct I recently added both a algae turf scrubber and a reef roller mat. The ATS is now starting to catch some speckled spots of algae on the plate. While my Roller mat is doing what it’s designed to do. I might have have done it to fast all at once and slowly ate what nutrients I had in the tank
 
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Checking your tank with all whites is a good idea as blues can hide a lot

Could still be algae, especially if only in the middle where the light is probably the strongest.

Doesn’t look any thing bad such as dinos, I would start testing tho.
Thank you. Yeah doesn’t look terrible. I’ll do some testing and see where I’m at on things.
 

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