chrysophytes?

[Grossman90]

brown stringy mucus now growing all over my frag rack and plugs. It is very slimy and light brown.

 

[Robert Binz]

The picture won’t load on my iPhone but sounds like it could be

 

[Grossman90]

The picture won’t load on my iPhone but sounds like it could be

Pic from video.

 

[Grossman90]

There a method to getting rid of chrysophytes? @taricha

 

[taricha]

I haven't really dug into strategies against them.
Check the "chrysophytes help me cure it" thread to see what people have done against them.

 

[Grossman90]

I haven't really dug into strategies against them.
Check the "chrysophytes help me cure it" thread to see what people have done against them.

Does it look like them from my scoped image? Someone told me it was brown cyano also.

 

[taricha]

I agree that it's chrysophytes

 

[SMSREEF]

I have this right now too. (Thanks to @taricha For helping me ID it with pics under microscope).

It is only growing on the dead rock, not the live rock that has coralline on it. It does not seem to harm anything, snails, corals, fish are all fine with it.

It comes off really easy, so I am just suctioning it into a filter sock in the sump, then change the sock.

I'm also making sure I have detectable nitrate and phosphate and hoping other algae and coralline moves in and takes over.

I’m also adding microbacter7 and using tropic marin rebiotic.

if this doesn’t work, in a couple month I’m gonna get all live rock and never use this dead stuff again.

 

[Grossman90]

I agree that it's chrysophytes

Idk what to do to get rid of it. Blackouts dont work. My nutrients are not 0. Tank sits around 10 nitrates and .05 phos. Was thinking about doing fluconazole or however u spell it. Vibrant is a no no for me. Ruined my last frag tank. What you think the right course of action is? Thanks!

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Idk what to do to get rid of it. Blackouts dont work. My nutrients are not 0. Tank sits around 10 nitrates and .05 phos. Was thinking about doing fluconazole or however u spell it. Vibrant is a no no for me. Ruined my last frag tank. What you think the right course of action is? Thanks!

I’m in the same boat, I’ve been giving it time but when it’s not growing in my display it grows in my sump??

 

[Grossman90]

I’m in the same boat, I’ve been giving it time but when it’s not growing in my display is gross in my sump?

Got rid of it a while ago. Lowered my phosphates and went away.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Got rid of it a while ago. Lowered my phosphates and went away.

Hey that’s great! Good on you reefer.

 

[amazongb]

I had them but it was caused by zero phosphates.. dosed neophos and they went away..

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I had them but it was caused by zero phosphates.. dosed neophos and they went away..

Thank you I’ll try ramping up my phosphates

 

[Robert Binz]

I dosed phosphates and the crystophytes immediately began melting.

They were replaced by dinos but that is the nature of a new tank (which mine was).

 

[SMSREEF]

I was able to overcome the chryso I dealt with. This is the combo that finally got rid of it:
I raised nutrients NO3 5-10 and PO4 0.05-0.1
Dosed Vibrant (start low, go slow)
Added Live Rock and Live Sand (from the ocean, not a bag)

Things that did not work for me:
-Siphoning it out daily (although with above trifecta probably did help)
-3 day blackout
-Bacteria in a bottle (MB7, Waste Away, ZEObac)
-Fluconazole

 

[noobreefer2]

I know this is a old thread, but it is interested to me that raising nutrients kills the chrysophytes, I believe that they feed off of silicates, but some strains could thrive in low nutrients?

It is also interesting to me that Robert Binz shared that he got dinos when he dosed phosphate, and I thought that
Dinos thrived in low nutrients.

Currently I am also in the process of fighting chrysophytes, and this thread was very helpfull. I a currently dosing vibrant bi weekly, and I am manually removing the algae as well. I have been contemplating doing a blackout, but it sounds like that may not be the best option.

This post I was kind of thinking out loud , I kind of found this by searching, it’s been pretty helpful.

P.S my chrysophyte thread:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/dino-diatom-thoughts.810633/