Algea ID help please....microscope show and tell

[Reef Puncher]

possible amphidium but single cell.

I hate to bother you but can you check my post and help me ID my dinos? I have multiple things going on. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/i...yone-know-what-this-is.1035161/#post-12197938

 

[deemoe]

I figured I would provide an update on my dino issues. Thing have gotten much better....


The following seemed to the trick for me:

- Reduce time period by 1 hour.
- I don't run a skimmer, I was doing weekly water changes and switched to biweekly 15% water changes.
- Induce diatom bloom that appeared to outcompete the dinos.
- increase my Vortech mp10 by about 8-10%
- Raise nitrates to 10-12 ppm by dosing nitrates.
- Keep phosphates around 0.06-0.01ppm
- Added two strawberry conchs, 1 emerald crab, and further reinforced clean-up crew (blue legs and trochus snails)
- A week after I added the conchs and clean-up crew reinforcements, the sand bed was just about clear.
- Since then, I have been maintaining my nitrates around 8-12 ppm and phosphates around 0.6-0.01 and returned to 15% weekly water changes. I no longer need to dose nitrates.

Thank you, everyone, for your help and advice!

 

[Beachbilly]

That's great yeah those emerald crabs are bad to the bone as an addition to cuc

 

[Reef Puncher]

I figured I would provide an update on my dino issues. Thing have gotten much better....


The following seemed to the trick for me:

- Reduce time period by 1 hour.
- I don't run a skimmer, I was doing weekly water changes and switched to biweekly 15% water changes.
- Induce diatom bloom that appeared to outcompete the dinos.
- increase my Vortech mp10 by about 8-10%
- Raise nitrates to 10-12 ppm by dosing nitrates.
- Keep phosphates around 0.06-0.01ppm
- Added two strawberry conchs, 1 emerald crab, and further reinforced clean-up crew (blue legs and trochus snails)
- A week after I added the conchs and clean-up crew reinforcements, the sand bed was just about clear.
- Since then, I have been maintaining my nitrates around 8-12 ppm and phosphates around 0.6-0.01 and returned to 15% weekly water changes. I no longer need to dose nitrates.

Thank you, everyone, for your help and advice!

this gives me hope. my dinos are still sticking around....Although they do seem to be getting better since i started dosing silicates, phosphates in the form of reef roids, and using Dr Tims Waste away.