Check this wierd stuff out! What the heck is it?

[Holy_makerel]

Just like the title said. Literally popped up overnight. Bright pinkish orange coloration. Never seen anything quite like it

 

[Crabs McJones]

That's so weird... #reefsquad any ideas?
Are those flatworms I see in the first pic as well?

 

[jsker]

I am going with cyano.

I like the yamma

 

[Holy_makerel]

That's so weird... #reefsquad any ideas?
Are those flatworms I see in the first pic as well?

Yeah, stinkin planarias. My sapphire damsels are keeping them under control but they never wipe em out

 

[Holy_makerel]

I am going with cyano.

I like the yamma

Thank you! Yeah, that was my first thought as well but I've never seen this coloration

 

[jsker]

what kind of lights are you running?

 

[Holy_makerel]

what kind of lights are you running?

SB reeflights ramped and 2 t5s an actinic and one around 10k run for 5 hours at the peak of my led ramp. Total of about 12 hours but 4 of those are run with weak blues.

Tank is 9 months old and most of the rock came from my old system(2 years old) with the rest cured out for 3 months prior to adding.

 

[jsker]

I run straight LED's and found by dialing back my white spectrum to 5.5 hr at 30% max the cyano disappeared in my tank. I do run the blue at 100+% and have great growth

 

[GoVols]

Thank you! Yeah, that was my first thought as well but I've never seen this coloration

Yeah:
It has the color of cotton candy algae, but I'm with @jsker the texture looks like cyano.

 

[KJ]

Cyano.

 

[Holy_makerel]

I run straight LED's and found by dialing back my white spectrum to 5.5 hr at 30% max the cyano disappeared in my tank. I do run the blue at 100+% and have great growth

Peak whites is 30% i think I'm doing 70% blues at peak. I do like veiwing the reef with whites so they are on at 5% other than 1 hour ramp up to peak and back down. Peak is 5 hours total.

 

[Holy_makerel]

Yeah:
It has the color of cotton candy algae, but I'm with @jsker the texture looks like cyano.

Cyano.

Thank you both

 

[jsker]

Peak whites is 30% i think I'm doing 70% blues at peak. I do like veiwing the reef with whites so they are on at 5% other than 1 hour ramp up to peak and back down. Peak is 5 hours total.

Looks like it is time to check the nutrients and the RO/DI filter to see if the are fresh.

 

[Holy_makerel]

Looks like it is time to check the nutrients and the RO/DI filter to see if the are fresh.

Planning on changing filters in RODI this weekend still coming out of the RO filter at 1tds and 0tds out of the DI but the pre filters do need to be changed.

No3 at 10ppm(salifert) po4 at 0.056ppm(hanna)

 

[jsker]

Planning on changing filters in RODI this weekend still coming out of the RO filter at 1tds and 0tds out of the DI but the pre filters do need to be changed.

No3 at 10ppm(salifert) po4 at 0.056ppm(hanna)

I would say the phosphates are your culprit, work on getting them down below .03

 

[Holy_makerel]

I would say the phosphates are your culprit, work on getting them down below .03

It's been a juggling match trying to find where my acros are happy. I was running pretty close to a ULN for a while but had issues and lost some sticks. Been trying to keep some nutrients in the tank so they can recover. LPS are happy but my acros have been really challenging me lately. I run minimal GFO at a trickle of flow through the reactor

 

[Holy_makerel]

Pink stuff gone without a trace today

 

[madweazl]

I would say the phosphates are your culprit, work on getting them down below .03

I've never noticed a direct correlation of cyanobacteria in relation to phosphate levels in this range (.01-.1 and even higher). Can you provide some additional insight to this?

 

[ArowanaLover1902]

I was having major problems with cyano and even after tons of treatment I still had a little carpet of it, I added a lawmower blenny, he ate it all and it hasn't come back since (or it has and he ate it)

 

[Holy_makerel]

I was having major problems with cyano and even after tons of treatment I still had a little carpet of it, I added a lawmower blenny, he ate it all and it hasn't come back since (or it has and he ate it)

My lawnmower blenny is fat and happy on nori. He doesn't graze much haha