Dinos?

[DOJOLOACH]

I tried reading what would cause dinos and i started growing this brown organism on my sand and rocks imediately after haulting my carbon dosing with nopox. Nutrients were pretty low for my soft corals so i let them naturally increase. If these pics were dinos wouldnt they have shown up while nutrients were at zero, not while they increase?
Po4 is .03 right now, about the same while carbon dosing.

Any thoughts?
No3 is 4ppm right now, up from 1ppm.

No other changes in the tank

 

[vetteguy53081]

Looks more like diatoms.
Using a turjkey baster, dinos will blow away whereas diatoms will move over.
Simply siphon up well and lower your white light intensity for a week or two. Generally associated with silicates in a newer tank. Add a few nassarius , trochus and astrea snails to help keep this clean

 

[DOJOLOACH]

Looks more like diatoms.
Using a turjkey baster, dinos will blow away whereas diatoms will move over.
Simply siphon up well and lower your white light intensity for a week or two. Generally associated with silicates in a newer tank. Add a few nassarius , trochus and astrea snails to help keep this clean

Thanks for the reply. The tank is about 2 years old, same with the rock. I wonder why they would show up now with no new sources of silicate.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Thanks for the reply. The tank is about 2 years old, same with the rock. I wonder why they would show up now with no new sources of silicate.

Its more than silicates. It can be a lack of water flow or even too many nutrients in the water. I would suggest to test water for nitrates and phosphates. Overfeeding is usally main cause if these values are up.

 

[DOJOLOACH]

Its more than silicates. It can be a lack of water flow or even too many nutrients in the water. I would suggest to test water for nitrates and phosphates. Overfeeding is usally main cause if these values are up.

Hmmm ill reduce my white light 50% and vacuum up. No3 at 5 and po4 .04 today
Despite the algae im liking the response from my soft polyp corals, theyre starting to come out again

 

[DOJOLOACH]

Its more than silicates. It can be a lack of water flow or even too many nutrients in the water. I would suggest to test water for nitrates and phosphates. Overfeeding is usally main cause if these values are up.

Now its definitely a red slime type algae. If i vacuum a section of sand a whole mat will become dislodged. I assume this is because i quite nopox too?
Nitrates at 5 but slowly going up. Po4 hanging around .05

 

[vetteguy53081]

Now its definitely a red slime type algae. If i vacuum a section of sand a whole mat will become dislodged. I assume this is because i quite nopox too?
Nitrates at 5 but slowly going up. Po4 hanging around .05

Siphon it up and clean filters daily. Reduce white lighting a little and add some chemipure elite which will keep nitrate/phod in cjeck.