ID bacterial globs on rock... microscope pic attached. Too small to be dinos.

[Nburg's Reef]

So I had a cyano outbreak a few months back, doses chemiclean, then a minor Dino outbreak solved with UV and Microbacter 7... then diatoms, Now I have this snotty globs that sort of look like Dino but don’t get air bubbles. Nothing seems bothered by it, but it’s growing everywhere. Under a scope, it looks incredibly small... much smaller than dinos cyano and diatoms.

tank was setup in June after moving it, so it’s not new, but had a major move which might have created an imbalance.
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[SMSREEF]

Looks to me like chrysophyte l. Some good info here:

Chrysophytes, AKA "Golden Algae" - How to identify, treat and remove it from your tank!

A wikipedia image for chrysophytes. For some time, I've been dealing with a mystery ailment in my aquarium. A wispy, slimy mass grew on almost every exposed area of my tank - no matter what I had tried, it kept coming back and stubbornly stuck with me for months. I started my current tank in...

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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...

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[Nburg's Reef]

Looks to me like chrysophyte l. Some good info here:

Chrysophytes, AKA "Golden Algae" - How to identify, treat and remove it from your tank!

A wikipedia image for chrysophytes. For some time, I've been dealing with a mystery ailment in my aquarium. A wispy, slimy mass grew on almost every exposed area of my tank - no matter what I had tried, it kept coming back and stubbornly stuck with me for months. I started my current tank in...

www.reef2reef.com

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

Thanks! Likes like you might be right however looked like a lot of opposing ‘cures’ but not everyone IDed under a microscope.

you know if there is a consensus? Seems like people tried vibrant, fluc, peroxide, blackouts, high NO3 and PO4 and even low nutrients and GFO worked for some but not all...

 

[SMSREEF]

Thanks! Likes like you might be right however looked like a lot of opposing ‘cures’ but not everyone IDed under a microscope.

you know if there is a consensus? Seems like people tried vibrant, fluc, peroxide, blackouts, high NO3 and PO4 and even low nutrients and GFO worked for some but not all...

I can tell you what worked for me and what didn’t.
Things that didn’t work fit me.
Lights out.
Dosing bottled bac (MB7, waste Away, ZEObac)
Fluconazole

helped:
Manual removal (siphon into filter sock daily)
Dosing NO3 and PO4 to keep levels 5-10 and 0.05-0.1
Vibrant

but final blow was adding real live rock and live sand from the keys, while doing manual removal, vibrant and nosing no3 and po4.

use caution if you decide to use vibrant because some have bad outcomes when using.

 

[SMSREEF]

This was mine under scope, in the tank, and when siphoned out

 

[Nburg's Reef]

Yep, looks very similar.

I may have to dose some Na3PO4. My phosphates are 0.02 and nitrates are just over 5 ppm. I feed really heavy for my bioload so this stuff must be sucking up a lot of that. I may skip vibrant for now since this stuff is not bothering anything. Maybe I will see if I can find a little piece of quality LR somewhere.

Question, did you skimmer make really thick skimmate that wouldn't pop? Mine has been foaming heavily, pushing the lid up and foaming over like a beer commercial. Only pops when I wipe the sides with a paper towel.

 

[Nburg's Reef]

The good news is the tank still looks amazing about an hour after scrubbing and letting it filter out in my sump. So it gets 'dirty' looking quick, but cleans up nice.

 

[SMSREEF]

Yep, looks very similar.

I may have to dose some Na3PO4. My phosphates are 0.02 and nitrates are just over 5 ppm. I feed really heavy for my bioload so this stuff must be sucking up a lot of that. I may skip vibrant for now since this stuff is not bothering anything. Maybe I will see if I can find a little piece of quality LR somewhere.

Question, did you skimmer make really thick skimmate that wouldn't pop? Mine has been foaming heavily, pushing the lid up and foaming over like a beer commercial. Only pops when I wipe the sides with a paper towel.

No. My skimmer foam was normal.

make sure to use a filter sock because that will catch any that is in the water column. The good thing is it is easy to remove manually with a siphon. It just grew back wishing a day in my tank. But mine was brand new and no biodiversity because I started with dead rock.

agree with waiting on the vibrant. That was a last resort in my case after a month or more of trying other things.

 

[Nburg's Reef]

I've decided I am going to try manual removal by scrubbing the rocks and glass as much as possible, use filter floss to catch anything the water and use UV in the DT for a few weeks to kill anything waterborne so it can't settle and grow again. hopefully this will kill off any of the uglies in the tank.

After a few hours, my tank looks sparkly clean. Lets see how fast it grows back...