Anyway I keep going back and forth on whether this is diatoms or something else such as dino or cyano or something completely different. It's showed up on my power head as well. I haven't really noticed much on the sand but it's hard to tell given I mixed different colors together.
It is mostly a dusting. But it appears as though some have small hair like structures on the dead coral near the powerhead . I've used a turkey baster and some blow away easy enough. The hairlike ones tend to turn into a dust when I baste them. I haven't noticed any being slimy to my fingers.
There is also a few small patches of deep red or maroon colored stuff. I am assuming that is coralline though since I can't baste it, brush it or make it go anywhere by running my finger across it.
Anyway any suggestions? I don't have any cleanup crew yet. I have some micro filter feeders a micro feather duster and maybe 1 or 2 amphipods that hitch hiked but otherwise I've not noticed any other stuff living in the tank yet.
Apparently the photos I took aren't the greatest if better ones are needed I'll try sometime later today when I can .
