Somthing new taking over

Davisc1293 · Jul 29, 2022

Ive been battling large cell dinos for months now and after dosing silicates for awhile i have a good mix of dinos and diatoms. However, in the past whatever was on the sand cleared up at night and came back fast when lights are on. Whatever is on the sand now is not dispersing at night but im not seeing anything on the microscope that i wasn't seeing before.

vetteguy53081 · Jul 29, 2022

Davisc1293 said:
Ive been battling large cell dinos for months now and after dosing silicates for awhile i have a good mix of dinos and diatoms. However, in the past whatever was on the sand cleared up at night and came back fast when lights are on. Whatever is on the sand now is not dispersing at night but im not seeing anything on the microscope that i wasn't seeing before.

Prepare by starting with a water change and blow this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles. Turn lights off (at least white and run blue at 10-15% IF you have light dependant corals) for 5 days and at night dose 1ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights. If you dont have light dependent coral- turn all lights off. During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as micro bacter 7 or XLM) per 10 gallons. Clean filters daily and DO NOT FEED CORAL FOODS OR ADD NOPOX

littlebeard · Jul 29, 2022

Have a picture?
Is it cyno? Often times after the dino battle cyno appears.

Davisc1293 · Jul 29, 2022

littlebeard said:
Have a picture?
Is it cyno? Often times after the dino battle cyno appears.

I believe there is cyano on the rocks but do not believe that what is on the sand, but I will take pictures when I can. I tried to syphon it out but seemed too heavy and was sucking more sand than whatever this was it would clump together and not come out in the syphon until i took the gravel vac part off and just used the hose to get as much as i could.

littlebeard · Jul 29, 2022

Do you have a picture through a microscope?

Davisc1293 · Jul 29, 2022

littlebeard said:
Do you have a picture through a microscope?

i was able to pull a small part of the mat to look at under the cheap pocket microscope i have but the mass was too dense to see any detail it was just a dark mass but was able to ID some dinos, diatoms, and sponge floating around it. I found a better but still cheap table top microscope on amazon which should be here tomorrow.