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I've been dealing with a snotty brown coating on my rocks that's now moving to the sand bed. Looks from what I've seen in this thread like dinos. Don't have a microscope but here's a pic. Any help on ID?
Going to start metroplex
But maybe another pic might look different. BTW, you can get a $12 toy microscope (what I have!) and get some great cell phone pics with it if you don't mind holding off further "treatment" until you get a more positive ID.
In the mean time, I'd suggest starting to search on #chrysophytes. @taricha , @reeferfoxx what's your take? Dino's, or...?
Also even though your stuff doesn't look like dino's IMO there's a good chance the treatment situation will be the same or similar.
Looks more like chrysophytes, to me?I've been dealing with a snotty brown coating on my rocks that's now moving to the sand bed. Looks from what I've seen in this thread like dinos. Don't have a microscope but here's a pic. Any help on ID?
Going to start metroplex- may have missed it in my review of the thread but should not be OK on my chaeto fuge?
And thanks @twillard for this great resource!!
Algaeid.com especially check videos. Movement helps a bunch.@mcarroll is there a good reference you can recommend to identify what strain of dinoflagelletes i have after magnifying it? i'm getting a small microscope today but being it'll be cheap i can't see getting a good enough photo to post a possibility.
Looks more like chrysophytes, to me?
Does it look like this?
Poster said that they blow off the rocks, which fits.
Also that not much appeared to go through paper towel test. (We need to revise this test. I've done it on confirmed Amphidinium dinos and so few cells made it through, that I couldn't see anything).
If you skip the paper towel filter part, and just shake the sample until it all separates, does it regroup in blobs and strands?
Bubbles and blobs fits for dinos. (That pic doesn't look stringy enough to be ostreopsis, nor dusty like large cell amphidinium, but a single pic on a single rock can fool you)
Does the growth get darker during day, and lighter overnight?
Any clean up crew death, or snails becoming motionless?
I lean towards dinos, but by no means confident. And without microscope pics, I've fooled myself plenty of times.
Wow, talk about missing the punch line! My apologies, I posted after reading the first 30 posts and seeing they had June/July dates. Didn't see that they were from 2016. Fortunately I've done nothing so far in terms of treatment and won't until I have a handle on what I'm dealing with.
We need to revise this test. I've done it on confirmed Amphidinium dinos and so few cells made it through, that I couldn't see anything
@mcarroll is there a good reference you can recommend to identify what strain of dinoflagelletes i have after magnifying it? i'm getting a small microscope today but being it'll be cheap i can't see getting a good enough photo to post a possibility.
Thanks for the help @taricha!
When I shook up the sample it didn't really dissolve and definitely didn't regroup.
It seems to stay pretty much the same color throughout the day/night.
No deaths of CUC and my superman monti isn't bothered by it and is slowly growing and pushing it back.
I'm not sure what the "official version" is of which test actually.
I think the shake test is good for dino's, personally....break up a snot-mat, see if they can use their little flagellates to regroup.
Perhaps the paper towel was to isolate cyano or diatoms