Diatoms are outta control!!!

[Sharkbait19]

With diatoms a lot of time you aren’t getting rid of them you are just stirring them up... they are easy to blow off sand and rock and looks gone and then they settle back out into visible layers

I figured that much....

 

[Oldsman]

looks like we're going thru this at same time! I did a 5 gl water change and vacuumed sand ..2 days later it came back. Our tank is 7 pr 8 wks old

 

[BruceLeeroy]

I figured that much....

Then why are you panicking?

 

[Sharkbait19]

Then why are you panicking?

No I just figured that was possible, but now it’s becoming more out of control than ever, so I’m panicking that it won’t stop. Thanks for the advice btw!

 

[Sharkbait19]

are these dinos or hair algae?

 

[Sharkbait19]

In literally eight hours this happened!

Dinoflagellates, right?

 

[MattR]

No expert but that many fish in that small of a tank in that new of a tank may be feeding some algae as well. Just a thought. Nice tank!

 

[Sharkbait19]

No expert but that many fish in that small of a tank in that new of a tank may be feeding some algae as well. Just a thought. Nice tank!

Thanks!

 

[Sharkbait19]

Luckily, overnight my algae has starved itself, and is slowly disappearing. I can see in my tank again!!