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I just started my first tank a month and half ago, and thought I was having a diatom outbreak earlier this week, but now there are bubbles on the rock and strings with bubbles on them floating attached to the rock. My nitrates and phosphates have been 0 for the past week due to chemical filtration (which I've since removed). I tried the peroxide test and no bubbling occurred although it was old peroxide from 2015 so it may not be functional anymore. I don't have a coffee filter to do that test yet but I will tomorrow and will update then.
Based on looks alone is it possible to tell if its dinos or something else?
My current plan is to remove the rock (except the one my GSP is on) and scrub it down and dip in bleach solution, with the GSP rock I plan to scrub it in a bucket of water as best I can and put it back. I'm hoping with the phosphates and nitrates hopefully increasing along with the scrub down it may kill off the dino. I also have bottles of coralline algae being shipped on monday which may help introduce some biodiversity and out compete it.
The color is a rusty brown color that my phone can't pick up the exact color of and some rock has patches that are semi-green (shown in the last pic)
Other tank info in case it's relevent:
10 gallon, Canister filter, Hang on back with macro and a light, tank light is a current orbit marine IC, a simple inverted bottle top off, Pair of young juvenile clowns (one is slightly smaller than my thumb and the other is a decent bit smaller than the big one), 1 small hermit crab,
I do also have a record of my water test results over the past week if that would be helpful to know.
Based on looks alone is it possible to tell if its dinos or something else?
My current plan is to remove the rock (except the one my GSP is on) and scrub it down and dip in bleach solution, with the GSP rock I plan to scrub it in a bucket of water as best I can and put it back. I'm hoping with the phosphates and nitrates hopefully increasing along with the scrub down it may kill off the dino. I also have bottles of coralline algae being shipped on monday which may help introduce some biodiversity and out compete it.
The color is a rusty brown color that my phone can't pick up the exact color of and some rock has patches that are semi-green (shown in the last pic)
Other tank info in case it's relevent:
10 gallon, Canister filter, Hang on back with macro and a light, tank light is a current orbit marine IC, a simple inverted bottle top off, Pair of young juvenile clowns (one is slightly smaller than my thumb and the other is a decent bit smaller than the big one), 1 small hermit crab,
I do also have a record of my water test results over the past week if that would be helpful to know.