cgullickson1222
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Tank is about 5 months old. Nitrates and ammonia are slightly high but nothing crazy. Are these Dino’s? It did get worse after a water change. My nem seems not to like it very much. What do I do?
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Looks more like diatoms.. a microscope could confirm it.
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These static photos don’t help much. You see red stringy stuff waving in the water in the Live Photo.Tank is about 5 months old. Nitrates and ammonia are slightly high but nothing crazy. Are these Dino’s? It did get worse after a water change. My nem seems not to like it very much. What do I do?
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If it’s diatoms, do nothing? I will order a cheap microscope.
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Don’t know why the video won’t attach.
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Gotta upload them to YouTube or use a computer to see them.. it’s not you it’s the site.
If you don't have a microscope, this might help. It has descriptions of symptoms underneath the photos
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Can you recommend a microscope? I don’t know how much magnification I need and I don’t want to spend a ton.
I bought what is in the link below. My only complaint is that it does not have a little pointer in the field of view. The main purpose of the pointer is to help you to get the thing your looking at in the very center of the field of view. Then, when you go to a higher power it will still be in the field of view. Otherwise you will likely get it a little off center and when you go to a higher power you will have to search around a bit to find it.
www.amazon.com/dp/B08JTWKY3W?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1
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I pieced together a M162 from ebay its a single eye which is all you need, you will want a camera, here is links to my recent battle. Which given the shipping charge I would have just bought a new good student scope with a camera new. My key visual queues it was a bad outbreak. The ostreopsis was so bad it formed chains of mucus strands and then pulled the sand born cyst out which started attaching to the glass. The strands started wrapping around everything . I lost 2 acans, but the softies and fish are ok. At the end of the day I could not contain the outbreak and went to algecide. Don't read into that, as you don't know yet, and I was willing to restart the biom. I would go with a amscope student set all you need is 400x to see the main stuff that seems to matter. I have more brown stuff, but now I know it is not all dinos, there are small amounts of ostreos, but there is a bunch of other stuff growing now, it is a relief to see. Dinos and diatoms are large and easy to diagnose. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/dino-battle-fallout.1099696/
By the way, it has something that you can you can use to attach a cell phone camera to it that works fine.
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I have seen that, personally I am droid bound just for the sake of conversation, for me, w/o hijacking OP or John's helpful input, I put the $50 scope on the 4X objective, for an example, just for demo purposes. Ostreo is easy to see,they tend to spin, I pipetted a suspicious strand into a cuvette and put under the scope, identifying the ostreopsis dinoflagella, but more importantly for observation purposes, to see more zoomies, and other plankton. I am dosing coralline and it is stiffening up zones in the sand, hopefully balancing the sand pitch in favor of the good guys. These are my images. There were so many ostreos, I could easily find one under 1000x
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