Dino or what

[smarcuscofer]

I've been fighting dino and I feel like it's going good there's some stuff on the sand that goes away when lights off and come back when lights on it's getting better but I have some brownish yellow hairy wavy stuff on the back glass it won't blow away but scrapes of very easy.... The bubbles from the dino has almost stopped but this stuff is going strong and it's very wavy in the current and I can't get a great p picture of it in the blues or whites

 

[JGT]

Green hair algae. Bubbles are very common m. Manually remove/siphon out, check NO3 and PO4 are in range, lessen feeding, shorten light intervals, add CUC if you don’t have and a tang or 2 depending on tank size and lawnmower blenny. Be patient. Will take time to eradicate.

 

[smarcuscofer]

Nitrates are super low like near zero and phosphates are around.05.....I have a snail I think astrea and 2 blue legged hermits for cuc going to add nesarious snail.... Sorry if I butchered the spelling... When available... My one snail seems to work hard but I think I need more....I only have 20 gallon I don't think I feed to much

 

[AbjectMaelstroM]

Nitrates are super low like near zero and phosphates are around.05.....I have a snail I think astrea and 2 blue legged hermits for cuc going to add nesarious snail.... Sorry if I butchered the spelling... When available... My one snail seems to work hard but I think I need more....I only have 20 gallon I don't think I feed to much

Does look like GHA on the back glass. Your nutrients are showing low/0 because GHA is taking it up as soon as they're avaliable.

In my 120 I tried fluconazole and other chemical "remedies", all they did was caused issues. I added 6 golf-ball-sized Turbos and along with my Tomini tang GHA was gone in 2 weeks.

So before you do any chemical attack on it, I would either try remove as much as you can manually and add a couple of turbos and give it a couple weeks.

 

[ScottB]

Does look like GHA on the back glass. Your nutrients are showing low/0 because GHA is taking it up as soon as they're avaliable.

In my 120 I tried fluconazole and other chemical "remedies", all they did was caused issues. I added 6 golf-ball-sized Turbos and along with my Tomini tang GHA was gone in 2 weeks.

So before you do any chemical attack on it, I would either try remove as much as you can manually and add a couple of turbos and give it a couple weeks.

+1

Add more turbos. Maybe an algae blenny too.

 

[Aqua Man]

Astrea snails are one My favs! 2 in my 20 gal do a decent job.
Nasarius dwell in the sand and eat mostly left over fish food. Not good for Alga.
+ 2 on the lawnmower blenny! Cool fish with great personality.