Diatoms? Dinoflagellates? What to do

[ckcustomz]

hey guys...lets start by saying yes i have read post on all my symptoms and have tried some and no luck...

First my 40g breeder had turf algae and got out of hand and my sps,lps, and even zoas were looking havve but that dang turf algae looked happy as hell ... only if it grew in nice colors id have a full reef with turf algae lol... but no, so i end up take all my corals off , removed as much turf algae from frag disks and so on...and removed all my rock work out and trashed them

Bought all new dry rock, aquascaped and basically put in the tank... yes on know im kinda starting the cycle over but i didnt think it would get this bad... i started getting alot of brown stuff all over everything and figured it was diatoms but only got worse when lights were on and at night my sand and rocks would be pure white

I tested with hanna url phosphorus and came up “0”... i had my rowaphos running over what it should have..so i figured i bottomed out and once again started my cycle over since i had nothing...

So i have all over this brown stuff and i hope its diatoms but at times looks like dinoflagellates... ive already done the 3 day black out, peroxide dose 1ml per 10g, cut my lighting to half, changed filter sock several times, running my skimmer a lil more than usual and nothing... thinking of using dino x or vibrant but dont like to waste money on thing that prob wont work and becomes a waste and still have the problem ... i added a bottle of special blend 2 weeks ago and was wondering if i should add another to add more bacteria

Parameters

Kh 8
Cal 460
Mag 1400
Ph 8.1
Phos 0.03
Nitrate 10ppm
Salinity 1.026
Temp 75

I use rodi and red sea salt blue bucket

Havent did a water change in 3 weeks cause i wasnt sure what it was and didnt want to add anymore silicates for it to feed on

 

[Tangina20]

hey guys...lets start by saying yes i have read post on all my symptoms and have tried some and no luck...

First my 40g breeder had turf algae and got out of hand and my sps,lps, and even zoas were looking havve but that dang turf algae looked happy as hell ... only if it grew in nice colors id have a full reef with turf algae lol... but no, so i end up take all my corals off , removed as much turf algae from frag disks and so on...and removed all my rock work out and trashed them

Bought all new dry rock, aquascaped and basically put in the tank... yes on know im kinda starting the cycle over but i didnt think it would get this bad... i started getting alot of brown stuff all over everything and figured it was diatoms but only got worse when lights were on and at night my sand and rocks would be pure white

I tested with hanna url phosphorus and came up “0”... i had my rowaphos running over what it should have..so i figured i bottomed out and once again started my cycle over since i had nothing...

So i have all over this brown stuff and i hope its diatoms but at times looks like dinoflagellates... ive already done the 3 day black out, peroxide dose 1ml per 10g, cut my lighting to half, changed filter sock several times, running my skimmer a lil more than usual and nothing... thinking of using dino x or vibrant but dont like to waste money on thing that prob wont work and becomes a waste and still have the problem ... i added a bottle of special blend 2 weeks ago and was wondering if i should add another to add more bacteria

Parameters

Kh 8
Cal 460
Mag 1400
Ph 8.1
Phos 0.03
Nitrate 10ppm
Salinity 1.026
Temp 75

I use rodi and red sea salt blue bucket

Havent did a water change in 3 weeks cause i wasnt sure what it was and didnt want to add anymore silicates for it to feed on

It looks like cyano bacteria to me, hard to tell from the dark pictures. Getting new rock probably wasn’t the best idea because the old live rock would be working to filter out the nutrients that are causing the algae. I would run chemipure elite and see if that helps.

Where did you get the rock? Dry rock usually has dead organics on it and usually needs to be cycled before putting in your tank. I added a couple pieces of dry rock to an established tank and it had so much die off that my whole tank got covered in cyano. I would take the new rock out and put the live rock back in if you still have it.