Dinos?

aurora.k · Mar 28, 2018

Hi there, this tank is new, done cycling about 2 months ago. I know I have been over feeding, so my nitrates are high (it’s so hard as I worry the fish won’t get enough...), but in the past week my snails died and I’ve got this brown stringy hard-to-scrape off algae (in the third pic you can see the “hairs” coming off the glass). It isn’t on the sand though, really just the glass and everything I’ve read says Dinos are on the sand.

PH 8-8.2
Kh 9.5
Ni 0
Nitrates 40
Ammonia 0

I don’t have a phosphate test. Corals all happy, fish and shrimp happy.

Thanks!

cloak · Mar 28, 2018

Perhaps...

https://www.reefcleaners.org/nuisance-algae-id-guide

4FordFamily · Mar 28, 2018

I cannot tell much. Can you turn off the blues for the photos?

aurora.k · Mar 28, 2018

cloak said:
Perhaps...

https://www.reefcleaners.org/nuisance-algae-id-guide

Hmmm... None of those seemed quite right since it is like the “hairy” algaes but hard to remove...

aurora.k · Mar 28, 2018

Here are some more pics with blues off. The last one shows how it attaches and the first two show the hairy ness...

WWIII · Mar 28, 2018

Doesn't really look like dinos to me, but I'm far from expert on ids. What type of scraper are you using that it is difficult to scrape off?

aurora.k · Mar 28, 2018

WWIII said:
Doesn't really look like dinos to me, but I'm far from expert on ids. What type of scraper are you using that it is difficult to scrape off?

Well, I need to get a real scraper so it probably wouldn’t be hard with the right tool.

aurora.k · Mar 28, 2018

WWIII said:
Doesn't really look like dinos to me, but I'm far from expert on ids. What type of scraper are you using that it is difficult to scrape off?

Well, I need to get a real scraper so it probably wouldn’t be hard with the right tool.

WWIII · Mar 28, 2018

I would probably scrape it off and use a filter sock for a day, if you're not running one. If it's not all over the rocks and sand yet, and everything is looking good, may just be one of those algae phases we go through with our tanks. These things happen in newish tanks. No need to worry yet!

I would also recommend the hanna ulr phosphorus checker! That way you can keep an eye on phosphate levels along with your nitrate levels.