Cant figure this algae out??

[ontop27]

Its kind of solid slimey. I seached all of the brown algaes i can find and nothing looks similar. Any ideas? Once i know what it is i can figure out how to beat it! Thanks

 

[Chefbill]

Little snotty globs? If do I believe it's bacterial. I had it, went away after 6 months.

 

[ontop27]

Little snotty globs? If do I believe it's bacterial. I had it, went away after 6 months.

Haha thats a good way of putting it. My maintance is top notch, only think new is aqua forest program. I started dosing hydrogen peroxide for fun a week ago to see if anything happened..nothing happened. Did it go away on its own?

 

[Chefbill]

Yes, all I did is blast it off with a turkey baster before water changes.

 

[PatW]

If it is slimy and amorphous, you probably have cyano bacteria. Like most algae, this can be dealt with by reducing the phosphate and nitrate levels in the tank. A good brute force method of dealing with it is a series of large water changes.

 

[Chefbill]

If it's what I think, it isn't cyano. Cyano hates flow, this stuff is indifferent.

 

[Vaughn17]

Looks like dinos. To get rid of it in my tank, I upped my nitrates to about 2 ppm (PO4 was undectable, probably because the dinos were using it).

 

[Chefbill]

I thought dinos at first too, but doesn't develop airbubbles or reclump when agitated. It was identified eventually (the stuff I had) as just bacterial flock.

 

[Vaughn17]

There are several thousand species of dinoflagellates, btw.

 

[Chefbill]

Probably, all I was offering was personal experience with what looks to be very similar .

 

[ontop27]

Yea like no dino i have ever seen and its not really bubbly and not on any sand. Definately not cyano as its not matty. I rarely have phosphates, i have an algae reactor and i carbon dose and only feed every other day. Also ton of flow, i have a gyre and an mp10 along with return flow in a 57 gallon tank. Also have a reef octo diablo skimmer

 

[ontop27]

Full tank shot incase your curious

 

[ontop27]

 

[ontop27]

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