Dino ID + Treatment

[EnterName]

Ugh, UV package is delayed and in USPS limbo.

Nutrients:
NO3 24.7
PO4 .31!

Tank is looking really good though, just a light dusting of brown on the sand, the rocks are not covered like they were, and the back wall is starting to clear up with the snails help. No redish brown hue anymore either, just brown. Pumps are staying cleaner as well. Have not been UV sweeping, just letting the sand do its thing and basting areas that are ugly as I see them.

Glad it's getting better.
Have you checked under a microscope? Still "pizza" diatoms (cf. Licmophora) or something else now?

 

[Mas0n]

Ugh, UV package is delayed and in USPS limbo.

Nutrients:
NO3 24.7
PO4 .31!

Tank is looking really good though, just a light dusting of brown on the sand, the rocks are not covered like they were, and the back wall is starting to clear up with the snails help. No redish brown hue anymore either, just brown. Pumps are staying cleaner as well. Have not been UV sweeping, just letting the sand do its thing and basting areas that are ugly as I see them.

Glad it's getting better.
Have you checked under a microscope? Still "pizza" diatoms (cf. Licmophora) or something else now?

Yep. Pizza diatoms, Ostreopsis, and what I believe to be small cell amphidinium based on their physical size.

 

[Mas0n]

Progress picture from yesterday

 

[EnterName]

Looks like a very young/new tank. I'm not even sure you would have needed any treatment in the first place (besides keeping corals free) assuming you don't see fish or CUC struggle with toxins.

I think it' s just a matter of patience

 

[Mas0n]

Looks like a very young/new tank. I'm not even sure you would have needed any treatment in the first place (besides keeping corals free) assuming you don't see fish or CUC struggle with toxins.

I think it' s just a matter of patience

Its just under 6 months now and I started with live rock. I guess I didn't skip the uglies as much as I'd hoped.

 

[Mas0n]

Looking solid still, its getting harder to find dinos on the microscope slides. Even when pulling "ugly" patches, there aren't millions of them running around.

Hair algae?

Cloudy tank after adding 8ml Nitribiotic. Who knows if this does anything, but it "feels" nice to add "good" bacteria.

Also dosed another 1.5ml of Waterglass to encourage one last diatom bloom. It feels like I'm in the end stages of this.