Dinos or just algae?

[Juka087]

Hey guys my tank is 4-5 months old, and some algae in the tank has bubbles coming from it. I was wondering if any of this appears to be dinos? I have a clean up crew coming next week for the algae from reefcleaners.

Nuvo 10
Salinity 1.026
Nitrate 2
Phosphate .02
Alk 10.2
Temp 80

 

[piranhaman00]

If there is bubbles its dinos.

 

[Juka087]

If there is bubbles its dinos.

Well I guess I'm lucky it's just a few little patches? Looks like the algae Is winning.

 

[piranhaman00]

It can spread quick, what are your nutrient levels? Uv?

Dinoflagellates – Are You Tired Of Battling Altogether?

Prorocentrum? Im aware of the diatoms and cyano :) i'm dosing silicates.

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[Juka087]

It can spread quick, what are your nutrient levels? Uv?

Dinoflagellates – Are You Tired Of Battling Altogether?

Prorocentrum? Im aware of the diatoms and cyano :) i'm dosing silicates.

www.reef2reef.com

Got a 7 watt uv in the nuvo 10. Nutrients listed above

 

[piranhaman00]

Got a 7 watt uv in the nuvo 10. Nutrients listed above

Sorry, I read that the first time and forgot.

Have you been running the uv all along? Or did you just set it up?

You can also try raising your nutrients to 10/0.1ppm

 

[Juka087]

Sorry, I read that the first time and forgot.

Have you been running the uv all along? Or did you just set it up?

You can also try raising your nutrients to 10/0.1ppm

Started a few days ago. Its helping a lot. I'm attempting to raise them. Even feeding reef roids everyday though doesnt seem to push them up much. I had quite a bit of seachem matrix bio media, and I removed half of it. Hopefully level will begin to rise slowly.

 

[piranhaman00]

Started a few days ago. Its helping a lot. I'm attempting to raise them. Even feeding reef roids everyday though doesnt seem to push them up much. I had quite a bit of seachem matrix bio media, and I removed half of it. Hopefully level will begin to rise slowly.

With such a small volume of water I would be hesitate to try to raise nutrients in that form, can you dose NO3 and PO4?

If the UV is helping you are in luck, I wouldnt change anything else.

 

[Juka087]

With such a small volume of water I would be hesitate to try to raise nutrients in that form, can you dose NO3 and PO4?

I'm sure I could dose it yea.

 

[piranhaman00]

I'm sure I could dose it yea.

See edit. With UV working I would just keep on what you are doing, keep nutrients where they are.

 

[Pdash]

Dino's aren't the only thing that produce bubbles, it's hard to tell from your pictures because of all the blue light but it doesn't look like dinos to me. A test with a cheap $20 microscope off amazon would let you know for sure.