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Diatoms.
+1 diatoms .. is this a new tank ... how long has it been running ? Are you topping off with rodi ?? If so what is your tds ??
Have you added any livestock recently ??
4 months is still young for a tank , in fact it’s still possible too have diatoms and Gha for the first 6-8-10 months .. are your no3 and po4 high .. can you list your parameters and what your upstart process was eg live rock / dry rockYeah maybe a month ago but literally didn’t see any problems until yesterday, 3 days after starting no pox
4 months is still young for a tank , in fact it’s still possible too have diatoms and Gha for the first 6-8-10 months .. are your no3 and po4 high .. can you list your parameters and what your upstart process was eg live rock / dry rock
4 months is still young for a tank , in fact it’s still possible too have diatoms and Gha for the first 6-8-10 months .. are your no3 and po4 high .. can you list your parameters and what your upstart process was eg live rock / dry rock
New tank + carbon dosing and you commonly get dino's.
I would stop carbon dosing ASAP and see if they go away – do it before they get worse.
If that doesn't do it, read this:
Dinoflagellates – Are You Tired Of Battling Altogether?
@sternicus There's no such thing as a sure thing.
I'd still cease carbon dosing to see if it goes away. No need for carbon dosing anyway.
Your nitrates are fine but your phosphates are very low – near zero.
That's enough NO3 for the carbon dosing to allow bacterial growth to tap out your phosphates.
You do not want that to happen....and locally where you see (what are probably) dino's, it's already happening. Dino's feast on bacteria as the bloom.
Nitrates do not cause corals to STN, so just put the nopox on the shelf for now. It'll keep!
STN is from the low-PO4...possibly along with another stressor or stressors.
Most commonly STN is starvation-related unless it's an old colony. Then if can be light- and/or flow-related too.....all (PO4, flow, light, NO3) are inter-related.
Nitrates do not cause corals to STN, so just put the nopox on the shelf for now. It'll keep!
STN is from the low-PO4...possibly along with another stressor or stressors.
Most commonly STN is starvation-related unless it's an old colony. Then if can be light- and/or flow-related too.....all (PO4, flow, light, NO3) are inter-related.
Nitrates do not cause corals to STN, so just put the nopox on the shelf for now. It'll keep!
STN is from the low-PO4...possibly along with another stressor or stressors.
Most commonly STN is starvation-related unless it's an old colony. Then if can be light- and/or flow-related too.....all (PO4, flow, light, NO3) are inter-related.