Black hair

[Alexmcm81]

Can someone help me identify this. It’s in my tank also. Tried manually removing it but it keeps coming back. 300l tank, 60-70l sump. Tomini tang, coral beauty, 2 Picasso clowns, chalk goby, Arabian cowrie, strawberry lipped conch, turbo snails and nassarius snails. Water:- nitrate-25, phosphate 0(very, very faint reading), ph 9.15-8.3, alk 6.7. Just started a refugium last week and would assume this black stuff is because of the refugium light but don’t know what it is or how to stop it coming back

 

[Suohhen]

I would say Dinoflagellates. The appearance is darker than usual but I think that is an artifact of how a camera lens adjusts to a bright white background. Would definitely be helpful to see a close up of the display under full spectrum lighting. The most bulletproof method to test for dinos is by looking at them under a microscope. Here is a simple test that can be done to eliminate the possibility that it is cyano or some other common nuisence algaes.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Can someone help me identify this. It’s in my tank also. Tried manually removing it but it keeps coming back. 300l tank, 60-70l sump. Tomini tang, coral beauty, 2 Picasso clowns, chalk goby, Arabian cowrie, strawberry lipped conch, turbo snails and nassarius snails. Water:- nitrate-25, phosphate 0(very, very faint reading), ph 9.15-8.3, alk 6.7. Just started a refugium last week and would assume this black stuff is because of the refugium light but don’t know what it is or how to stop it coming back

Looks bacterial and may be cyano

 

[Alexmcm81]

Looks bacterial and may be cyano

It’s weird, I’ve never seen this before and hard to find through searching. I don’t think it’s dinos because it’s still there after lights out. Is there a product I could use to get rid of this? I really didn’t want to add anything to the system but this stuff is really bugging me

 

[taricha]

From my perspective, this is a few milligrams of nuisance stuff growing on some brand new surfaces that have just been added to a system. It concerns me none at all. I think that it is cyano, BTW.

 

[vetteguy53081]

It’s weird, I’ve never seen this before and hard to find through searching. I don’t think it’s dinos because it’s still there after lights out. Is there a product I could use to get rid of this? I really didn’t want to add anything to the system but this stuff is really bugging me

You can blow it loose with a turkey baster but as Taricha mentioned, its unsightly and of no harm or threat. As long as it receives light, it will thrive

 

[Alexmcm81]

You can blow it loose with a turkey baster but as Taricha mentioned, its unsightly and of no harm or threat. As long as it receives light, it will thrive

Thanks for the input. Any experience with Fiji mud? I know you have to mix aqua forest life source with tank water but could I do the same with the Fiji mud?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Thanks for the input. Any experience with Fiji mud? I know you have to mix aqua forest life source with tank water but could I do the same with the Fiji mud?

Fiji mud is a base in refugium comparable to miracle mud whereas life source which i use is diluted and poured into sump for disbursement via return pump to your tank

 

[Alexmcm81]

Fiji mud is a base in refugium comparable to miracle mud whereas life source which i use is diluted and poured into sump for disbursement via return pump to your tank

Would it be advisable to put the Fuji mud in the refugium, lay the rubble I have in there on top and the get life source or would the Fiji mud be enough?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Would it be advisable to put the Fuji mud in the refugium, lay the rubble I have in there on top and the get life source or would the Fiji mud be enough?

I would do one or the other.