Help indentifying

[Hallowhead]

Please help me figure this crud out ! It's thick and not easily syphoned out. I want to manually remove it but a lot of substrate comes with it ? Thoughts ? Turf algae ?

 

[40g Nano]

do u have a cuc

 

[40g Nano]

looks like algae
what are your parameters

 

[Hallowhead]

I have cuc

Emerald crab
Several astrea
Several mass
Several bumble bee
Several Mexican turbo
2 scarlet herms
1 blue legged

Parameters
Dkh 8.5
Ca 420
Mg 1350
Nitrate greater than zero
Phosphate greater than zero

 

[40g Nano]

what exactly is your nitrate level?

 

[Hallowhead]

Between 2.5 - 10

 

[40g Nano]

and you should probably do water changes a few times a week until the algae is gone

 

[Hallowhead]

and you should probably do water changes a few times a week until the algae is gone

I disagree with the water changes.. that'll just remove all nutrients and spark a larger algae outbreak

 

[40g Nano]

water changes take out nutrients in the water

 

[40g Nano]

low No3 = less algae

 

[Riphter]

Those look like Dino or diatoms. Crashing your nutrients will make it worse. If it is dusty when you hit it with a turkey baster it’s diatoms. If it’s stringy and kinda slimy it’s Dino. Both go away with time and quality ro/di for your salt mix. Almost always happens within the first year of setting up a tank. Happens multiple times for a lot of people too.

 

[Riphter]

On the other hand if it’s green hair algae. Manual removal and a small lawnmower blenny will do wonders. I don’t know if the tank is big enough for a tang.

 

[40g Nano]

you could get a small tang and maybe trade it out when it gets bigger

 

[Hallowhead]

Those look like Dino or diatoms. Crashing your nutrients will make it worse. If it is dusty when you hit it with a turkey baster it’s diatoms. If it’s stringy and kinda slimy it’s Dino. Both go away with time and quality ro/di for your salt mix. Almost always happens within the first year of setting up a tank. Happens multiple times for a lot of people too.

I fought dinos for the longest time and eradicated them this is different looking but I hear there are different strains

 

[ScottB]

I'd suggest getting a sample of that under a cheap 400X student microscope. We are throwing darts here.

 

[Hallowhead]

I'd suggest getting a sample of that under a cheap 400X student microscope. We are throwing darts here.

Any amazon links ?

 

[ScottB]

Any amazon links ?

Any of these will work.

 

[Hallowhead]

Any of these will work.

didn't work!

 

[ScottB]

didn't work!

Hope you sent it back then. Mine works like a champ.

 

[Hallowhead]

Hope you sent it back then. Mine works like a champ.

The link didn't at first haha