I don’t have a microscope, so I’m hoping someone can visually ID:
Tank is 3.5 months old and I had a small diatom outbreak 2 weeks in. Using natural sea water collected locally. The “algae” tends to diminish a little overnight and return midday (making me want to rule diatoms out). It’s been like this for about 2 weeks and sticks to the substrate only. Nothing on the rocks.
Tank is a EVO 13.5 running an AI Prime 16HD (Saxby settings). Mixed reef (softies, LPS, and few montis), 4 Astrea Snails, 3 blue leg hermits, 1 nassarius, 1 skunk cleaner, a tailspot blenny, and a small DaVinci clown.
Params:
Ca-420
Mg-1285
Alk-7
No3 <1
Po4 .02 ppm or less
salinity 1.02
Temp 78
trying to figure out the best course of action. Thoughts on whether we’re looking at Dino’s, diatoms, cyano, something else? Thanks!
Tank is 3.5 months old and I had a small diatom outbreak 2 weeks in. Using natural sea water collected locally. The “algae” tends to diminish a little overnight and return midday (making me want to rule diatoms out). It’s been like this for about 2 weeks and sticks to the substrate only. Nothing on the rocks.
Tank is a EVO 13.5 running an AI Prime 16HD (Saxby settings). Mixed reef (softies, LPS, and few montis), 4 Astrea Snails, 3 blue leg hermits, 1 nassarius, 1 skunk cleaner, a tailspot blenny, and a small DaVinci clown.
Params:
Ca-420
Mg-1285
Alk-7
No3 <1
Po4 .02 ppm or less
salinity 1.02
Temp 78
trying to figure out the best course of action. Thoughts on whether we’re looking at Dino’s, diatoms, cyano, something else? Thanks!