OK boys and girls, while I wait on Amazon to deliver my microscope... Hoping for a visual ID of the situation below. Video 1 is this morning and 2nd video is from 30 minutea ago.
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Parameters:
SG - 1.026
Ph - 8.2
Alk - 8.7
PO4 - 0.01ppm on Hanna ULR
NO3 - 2ppm on Red Sea.
I dose approx 0.04ppm of PO4 and 1ppm NO3 every twice a week.
This popped up a week after I ran chemiclean to kill cyano... Which popped up after I hit GHA with fluconozole. Tank is 8 months old or so. Currently syphoning sandbed weekly, 15% WC, running carbon and floss in media cups, and have a jebao UV plumbed into the return/sump.
I have a feeling I know what this is (thus why I'm here) but I guess I'm hoping to hear that it's not Dino. ;Dead
I am going to share some very high conviction opinion on what to do with your 8 month old biome.
Leave it alone to do its thing. Your interventions are only prolonging the uglies. No chemiclean. No fluconazole (except for bryopsis only). No GFO. No carbon dosing. No pellets. No Vibrant. No nutrient dosing until month 24 (I see algae so you have ample available nutrient.)
Keep:
- Stable temp.
- Stable salinity.
- Smooth to gradually increasing bioload.
- Good flow.
- Add all the live rock you want to sump or display. Don't add dead rock.
- Feed high quality/variety frozen fish foods.
- Regular WCs with sand vacuum.
- If it makes you feel good, harvest some algae by scrubbing rocks in a bucket of old tank water.
Otherwise, let it go through all of the normal phases. Body odor, pubic hair, acne, facial hair, general obstinance, parental rejection... may be getting a bit off track but still a good metaphor. Keep the fundamentals steady and leave the meds out of it for a good while so the biome can mature naturally.
Bring out the party hats when coralline starts to dominate lit surfaces.