This algae is brownish on the glass of my qt tank the fish I just moved there from my dt tank because of a dino outbreak that destroyed my dt tank I did fresh water dips on each fish hoping to not transfer it as of right now under 1200x microscope it doesn't look like dino nothing is moving if someone could I'd I would appreciate it thank you
Can someone I'd this algae
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I'm curious as well. What you have looks very similar to the algae I see in my tank.
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Could be Diatoms
jsker
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The green algae on the glass is just that, I am scraping off in between posts. Check your phosphates to make sure the phosphates are running around .02 to .03 and your nitrates are between 3 to 5.
Is the brown just on the glass or the PVC too. That I would say is Diatoms that naturally occur in water, seawater. Diatoms and Cyano are always in our systems, just something irritates them and the appare Check you lighting a make sure you do not run your whites for more the 5.5 hours over 30%.
Is the brown just on the glass or the PVC too. That I would say is Diatoms that naturally occur in water, seawater. Diatoms and Cyano are always in our systems, just something irritates them and the appare Check you lighting a make sure you do not run your whites for more the 5.5 hours over 30%.
jsker
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Look at the lighting also, I made a change in my intensity back in November and my diatom issues went away
The best way to explain Diatoms for myself was an episode on Nat Geo One Strange Rock. The episode was Breath. Light went on after watching that one
