Algae ID?
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Neoalchemist
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Looks like dinoflagellates, or crisophytes.
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When I had the above pattern of brown spiky clumps in a test tank, it was mostly small-cell amphidinium dinos. (With a few large cell amphidinium mixed in).
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I have not tested them but since is a new tank that im constantly changing water and feeding on super low amounts they are supposed to be ok?
What I can do to battle this? It will go away with time?
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The thing is that I am familiar with the green hairy algae in the past, but I just brushed my rocks and they're still white, not green as in the past. (started from dry rock this time).
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Tank is still new. I think it would be better to run it as usual. With lights. Let the diatoms and algea grow. Then you can add a clean up crew to control the algea. Let it stabilise by it self.
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It depends on how you start the tank. If you used live rock, then usually there will be some Copepods in LR. Should see it after few months of setting up the tank. Tiny creatures crawling around.
Another way of pods coming into the tank is through frags (frag plugs) when you buy new corals. So there should be some pods hitch-hiking into the tank. (But if you dip those new frag plugs, I don't think the pods can survive).
But pods need phytoplankton to grow. So in our tanks the plankton concentration is very low (to none) unless we dose large amounts of phyto separately (or grow live phyto).
So if you need to introduce pods, an easy way (but expensive in the long run) to do is buying ocean nutrition live copepods. Also there other brands as well.
Another way is by introducing a mature live rock through lfs which has tons of Coraline. But it can be abit tricky because there will be unwanted hitchhikers as well.
So for starters if there are zero pods in the tank I would try buying some separately once or twice just to get the population going.
if you have a refugium, put some pods in it. So that they have some safe space to grow without being eaten.
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It depends on how you start the tank. If you used live rock, then usually there will be some Copepods in LR. Should see it after few months of setting up the tank. Tiny creatures crawling around.
Another way of pods coming into the tank is through frags (frag plugs) when you buy new corals. So there should be some pods hitch-hiking into the tank. (But if you dip those new frag plugs, I don't think the pods can survive).
But pods need phytoplankton to grow. So in our tanks the plankton concentration is very low (to none) unless we dose large amounts of phyto separately (or grow live phyto).
So if you need to introduce pods, an easy way (but expensive in the long run) to do is buying ocean nutrition live copepods. Also there other brands as well.
Another way is by introducing a mature live rock through lfs which has tons of Coraline. But it can be abit tricky because there will be unwanted hitchhikers as well.
So for starters if there are zero pods in the tank I would try buying some separately once or twice just to get the population going.
if you have a refugium, put some pods in it. So that they have some safe space to grow without being eaten.
Thank you for your reply. It's being started from dryrock and I don't have a refugium. I can't buy live pots because I live in Dominican Republic and we don’t have anyone selling this. If i buy in the statea the transit time is about 3-4 days and i dont know if pods will arrive alive. Its complicated
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No worries at all. Happy to help.
usually pods can survive the shipping if the package was properly packed. But I’m afraid I can’t be certain.
In that case might have to wait until you get some coral frags. Pods will get populated over time. Patience is the key in this hobby. Give it some time
