Dinoflagellates or diatoms?

[Accidentalreefers]

Dinoflagellates or diatoms?, brown/reddish with a slimy coat on top, but it doesnt have the snotty bubble tips like dinoflagellates does. What you y'all think?

 

[SMSREEF]

That does not look like either one to me.
Cyanobacteria maybe?
Do you have a microscope?

 

[Accidentalreefers]

That does not look like either one to me.
Cyanobacteria maybe?
Do you have a microscope?

Unfortunately I don't.... tanks been running for a year I've been kind of over feeding the past week so I figured that might be the issue it just showed up yesterday.

 

[SMSREEF]

You can get a cheap microscope on amazon.

This has helped me get an ID in the past from some of the pros on R2R.

These microbes look very different with magnification which enables more accurate ID.

The reason to get a more accurate ID is that you treat different problem microbes very differently.

 

[Nick428]

hmm thats a tough one light spectrum could be making them look different looks like amphidinium dinos