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Possibly lyngbyga. Which is not an algae, but a cyano bacteria. Did have have 0 nutrients by chance? Is it’s mushy/slimy and grown in clumps?
Possibly lyngbyga. Which is not an algae, but a cyano bacteria. Did have have 0 nutrients by chance? Is it’s mushy/slimy and grown in clumps?
What your describing is pretty much a type of lyngbya. Very very difficult to get rid of, many have tore down and restarted. I recently alkost did the same...
what worked for me is since it’s a bacteria. I begrudgingly did a chemiclean treatment, which did knock it back consider my, than did lights out for like 2 days as it feeds off of light, then I got Dino’s which outcompeted the lyngbya, then raised nutrients for about a month and the Dino’s went away.
long process but did get my tank back in order without a complete tear down. I also did remove quite a bit of my sand bed.
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Light yellow to golden to brown blobby gelatinous stuff that holds shape mostly even out of water.
Going to say this is chrysophytes.
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Chrysophytes?! Help me cure it?
Chrysophyta (golden-brown algae) The Chrysophyta are the golden-brown algae and diatoms, which respectively account for 1,100 and 40,000-100,000 species of unicellular algae. These algae occur in both marine and fresh waters, although most species are marine. The cell walls of golden-brown algae...www.reef2reef.com