Hi everyone,
Few weeks ago I started to over-feed my tank since I have only 1 fish and a lot of macros. Nitrates and phosphates were at 0, my algae were slowing down so I was concerned about not having enough nutrients. As soon as I started overfeeding I noticed some sand being "reddish" in color. Then I was suggested to keep nutrients higher because that was dinoflagellates. I started dosing micro and N/P, but the situation got only worse. Some people suggested it could be cyano, but it doesn't go away on night.
I have access to pretty powerful microscopes at work, today I tried to scrape some red stuff off the rocks but I did not have enough cells in the water to find out what was (I definitely saw few cells of cyano and Dino, but not many)
What is the best way to collect them in high concentration?
You can see some pics below
The clump above is around 1mm wide
Few weeks ago I started to over-feed my tank since I have only 1 fish and a lot of macros. Nitrates and phosphates were at 0, my algae were slowing down so I was concerned about not having enough nutrients. As soon as I started overfeeding I noticed some sand being "reddish" in color. Then I was suggested to keep nutrients higher because that was dinoflagellates. I started dosing micro and N/P, but the situation got only worse. Some people suggested it could be cyano, but it doesn't go away on night.
I have access to pretty powerful microscopes at work, today I tried to scrape some red stuff off the rocks but I did not have enough cells in the water to find out what was (I definitely saw few cells of cyano and Dino, but not many)
What is the best way to collect them in high concentration?
You can see some pics below
The clump above is around 1mm wide