Help!!

[Swaggy]

Sorry for the blurry pic, but can anyone help me identify the pink/purple stuff

 

[dbrewsky]

appears to cyano bacteria!

 

[Saltine]

Step 1. Increase flow in that area.
Step 2. Manage nutrients (Feed less, Run GFO, Start a Refugium)

Salt

 

[Swaggy]

Step 1. Increase flow in that area.
Step 2. Manage nutrients (Feed less, Run GFO, Start a Refugium)

Salt

OK thank you

 

[Diesel]

There is better solution for this nastiness.
@twilliard will direct you to his battle Cyano thread.

 

[twilliard]

Step 1. Increase flow in that area.
Step 2. Manage nutrients (Feed less, Run GFO, Start a Refugium)

Salt

These methods if it is truly cyanobacteria will not stop it. However if it is spirulina it may help as spirulina does not like a ton of flow.
Food wise it is best to understand how they survive in even the worst of conditions.

I have a lot of lab time with the study of cyanobacteria and up until recently with spirulina
These 2 are commonly mistaken for one another. They look identical to the eye but are absolutely 2 different "bacterias" and have traits of cell growth behavior of algae.
Here is a link to all the information
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/back-at-it-peroxide-vrs-cyanobacteria.241002/
Sorry I have not been able to compile this for the fact we are dealing with two different species with 2 different treatments.
Once I find a proven method of identification without a scope I will have the final drawn up.