Dreaded Dinos or Cyano?

[ajremington68]

Wanna help me out with a ID anyone?

 

[Reeflix]

pics under white light please

 

[Reeflix]

but otherwise looks more like cyano in the sandbed

 

[ajremington68]

Here's all whites, not sure what it is cuz it is made with mats and bubbles in it, also I will scrape it off the back wall, and comes right back. Phosphates were 0.25, however, I put my bags of chemi-pure in my filter sock and it dropped over 2 days down to 0.03. It occasionally comes on the sand I think from me scrapping it off the back wall and the snails and crabs ripping it off and like floats into my corals and I blow it off. but it's just ugly and want to get rid of it. Tank is about 3 months old with dry rocks, so it's expected. All other parameters are in par but I can post them if needed, need help with a game plan to get rid of it.

 

[ajremington68]

@vetteguy53081 @Reeflix

 

[ajremington68]

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[vetteguy53081]

Wanna help me out with a ID anyone?

Looks like a combo of flagellates- not dino and a substance known as Lyngbya which is a hairy fuzzy type of algae and dwells best in tanks with warmer water temp. It can be shaved off glass with an old credit card or similar tool and assure po4 and no3 not elevated which supports it.
Then add nerite-trochus, margarita, chiton and astrea snails to help maintain control

 

[ajremington68]

Looks like a combo of flagellates- not dino and a substance known as Lyngbya which is a hairy fuzzy type of algae and dwells best in tanks with warmer water temp. It can be shaved off glass with an old credit card or similar tool and assure po4 and no3 not elevated which supports it.
Then add nerite-trochus, margarita, chiton and astrea snails to help maintain control

No blackouts, just keep cleaning it? I did just get my phosphates low so I assumed starve it out.

 

[vetteguy53081]

No blackouts, just keep cleaning it? I did just get my phosphates low so I assumed starve it out.

For this blackouts should not be needed unless it gets stubborn and keeps coming back. It does have similar behavior to cyano

 

[Reeflix]

Looks like a combo of flagellates- not dino and a substance known as Lyngbya which is a hairy fuzzy type of algae and dwells best in tanks with warmer water temp. It can be shaved off glass with an old credit card or similar tool and assure po4 and no3 not elevated which supports it.
Then add nerite-trochus, margarita, chiton and astrea snails to help maintain control

this, i have also heard that h202 dips for the rocks might help, but correct me if i am wrong

 

[vetteguy53081]

this, i have also heard that h202 dips for the rocks might help, but correct me if i am wrong

In conjunction with scrubbing- In Some cases

 

[ajremington68]

this, i have also heard that h202 dips for the rocks might help, but correct me if i am wrong

Now with this method in a little against just due to the amount of copepods I have bought over the months and been supplying to the tank, and after dipping a couple zoas I pulled from the tank I killed quite a few and that was just a small surface area.

In conjunction with scrubbing- In Some cases

Being the hairy type that creates bubbles is only growing on my back wall, should I leave the rocks alone and just keep blasting them off with a baster? as well as cleaning the back wall daily and see over the next week or two if it gets better with lowered phosphates and nitrates and then if not go from there?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Now with this method in a little against just due to the amount of copepods I have bought over the months and been supplying to the tank, and after dipping a couple zoas I pulled from the tank I killed quite a few and that was just a small surface area.

Being the hairy type that creates bubbles is only growing on my back wall, should I leave the rocks alone and just keep blasting them off with a baster? as well as cleaning the back wall daily and see over the next week or two if it gets better with lowered phosphates and nitrates and then if not go from there?

If they dislodge yes although I would scrub each one in a container of tank water and return to tank and let the cleaners do the rest

 

[ajremington68]

@vetteguy53081 hey I have a question for this thread that we talked about earlier. With this algae I’ll scrap it off and it just comes back, also it constantly wraps around my corals when I scrap it off, would it be beneficial to put one of my extra power heads on the opposite end of my current one to add more flow to the tank to combat the issue of the algae growing or will it have no affect besides more flow in the tank? Or would it disrupt my corals more than anything that are just now starting to settle in and open up?

 

[vetteguy53081]

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@vetteguy53081 hey I have a question for this thread that we talked about earlier. With this algae I’ll scrap it off and it just comes back, also it constantly wraps around my corals when I scrap it off, would it be beneficial to put one of my extra power heads on the opposite end of my current one to add more flow to the tank to combat the issue of the algae growing or will it have no affect besides more flow in the tank? Or would it disrupt my corals more than anything that are just now starting to settle in and open up?

low will deter it from trying to stick to surfaces
You may have to resort also to a blackout, at least white only and add 1.5ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons to help it oxidize as you scrape it away
Be sure to siphon or even net the floating particles and empty skimmer cup if you’re running a skimmer

 

[ajremington68]

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low will deter it from trying to stick to surfaces
You may have to resort also to a blackout, at least white only and add 1.5ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons to help it oxidize as you scrape it away
Be sure to siphon or even net the floating particles and empty skimmer cup if you’re running a skimmer

So the extra flow won’t do much for the tank in terms of the algae problem?