Dinos or cyano?

[Jonathan Troutt]

Title says it all?

 

[NotFishyFishGuy]

Not sure I just wanted to post so that the thread could get bumped. Looks like cyano maybe?

 

[reef lover]

Doesnt look like either...honestly.
Might need a scope to figure it out.

 

[ScottR]

Cyano is typically a maroon type color (but not always) and you’ll see lots of air bubbles. Dinos usually are stringy and a tannish brown color, also with bubbles. Both will blow easily off of sand and rock. If neither blows away and disappears easily, it’s probably something else. Use a turkey baster to try to blow them off. I second that a microscope is necessary for a more positive ID.

 

[Jonathan Troutt]

Doesnt look like either...honestly.
Might need a scope to figure it out.

See its strange cause ive battle dinos before. And currently this stuff is not on my rocks but all over the sand bed. It will covered my zoanthids and start killing them if i leave them on the sand bed so ive moved them for now up higher. It almost looks like a mix of dinos and cyano. Like dinos got together with cyano one drunken night at the bar and did stuff they were not supposed to and poof a hybrid popped out.

What power microscope is need for proper id

 

[reef lover]

That im not sure of. Check out this thread and see if the Calothrix looks similiar.

What’s this???

Any ideas??? Blows off like Cyanobacteria but comes back.

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