Help identify/ treat (pic heavy)

[SuthernReefer]

Temp 78°
SG 1.025
Alk 9
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 0 but dosing trying to get a reading (neoNitro)
PH 8.0
Phosphate under .25
Calcium 480
Mag 1430

Tank is 4 months old. Ive tried diagnosing this myself online, but it seems everything ive tried hasn't worked.

Ive been dosing Vibrant close to a month.
I recently ran 2 doses of chemi clean through it with multiple 20% water changes. Ive tried the peroxide and lights out method. Ive dosed bio spira with it also.

Sandbed clean after vac, but this stuff will be right back by end of day.

Thought it was cyano because it has a slight red/brown dusting with the stringy stuff if I let it go on sand bed.

Did peroxide test in a bowl, but thre algae didn't bubble.

Now assuming dino so I have dino-x on way. Kind of scared to dose it though because I have so much $ in corals with more arriving in a few days.

Can anyone identify this? Have you battled it before? Anyone have experience dino x?

Sorry for vague and choppy structure, but dinner is waiting


Thanks in advance

 

[Mikedawg]

Start researching dinos; several treatment strategies can be found with a simple search on R2R as this is probably the most popular topic. You will need a microscope to identify species since some treatments are species specific. Couple more pics under white light would help because it looks like you may have more than dinos

Dino X didn't work for me, but syphoning. raising No3 and Po4, peroxide at night and Microbacter 7 days and, most importantly, a tuned UV light did.

Good luck.

 

[Supa]

Your nutes bottomed out and Dino appears, I had this happen recently too mine went away when I got nitrates to 10 and phosphate above 0.03. That’s my guess

 

[Supa]

Appears to be some other algae also. If all is doing well I would try a natural approach

 

[SuthernReefer]

Corals and fish are ok, but I have to blow corals off every couple of hours, otherwise they get covered and start closing up.

Here's some more under white lighting. Notice the back glass and how this stuff spreads like roots or veins? And on the sandbed its like cobwebs. I think the difference is from the flow being higher 9n the glass since my powerhead is slightly aimed that way

Definitely considering a microscope

 

[Supa]

Can you show me a picture of your powerhead and nearby area… I’m still betting your nutrients bottomed out(nitrate and phosphates) can you test for these now?…. My Dino’s started going away when I fed heavier and nitrates rose i skipped a water change or two also….. I’m new to reefing so I advise you double check before doing anything I advise you to do lol

 

[Supa]

Want to add that I’m under the assumption that there are different types of Dino’s and some will not be beat with some of the typical methods. I was doing more frequent water changes and used turkey baster to blow Dino’s off coral…. Some days it would look better some time it didn’t I was told the water changes was hurting me as it was keeping my nitrates 0 and phos almost 0.

 

[Uncle99]

I’ve used Dino-X before, never hurt nothing at all when used exactly as directed.
Cant tell exactly what that is though.

 

[BanjoBandito]

All that chemical treatment is going to and has destroyed the biome in that tank. You need to get your nutrients up and run a UV, but first should try and ID by microscope. I'm a big fan of dosing silicates to trigger a diatom bloom and basically "restart" your initial ugly/algae build up phase for the tank.