High phosphate but dino breakout?

[RedzaRamzan]

Hello, I got a brand new track that's done cycling and i have a torch coral and a few fishes. When I added the torch I noticed some brown stuff, thought they were normal algae stuff that can go away with a blackout or two (like I did with my freshwater tank).

Did some searching, figured they were dinos, they have bubbles and they come back real quick after I vacuum the substrate. Not snotty or stringy tho.. but I did see like 1 string with a bubble. Not sure, probably need a microscope.

Here's the weird part, I just got an API test kit for cheap (looking to get a more precise low range one), and it read 0.25ppm, that's pretty high for a reef tank right? Can dinos spread even with high phosphate?

Is it possible that it's just algae? algae that produces bubbles like dinos?

Nitrate (maybe its consuming the nitrate?) , ammonia, nitrite are all at 0

I just popped in some phosguard and will be checkin on the levels in a day or two. Or should I take it out?

I try not to tinker with it too much, cause the torch was angry when I changed a bunch of things to lower the alk last time

Pls refer to the pic! Theres some green brush ish algae and theres the brown stuff. The brown stuff spreads real quick. This was dry live rock that was white...

Any help is much appreciated !!! Thank you!

Red.

Edit : clarified some stuff hehe

 

[ahiggins]

API is garbage....I highly doubt your phos is even detectable at that stage in the tank.
Unless you went with live rock, then that could happen.
Ps did I say api is terrible? Seriously, never do anything based on those results, I’ve seen mine test for 50+ nitrates on a 5 nitrate tank.

 

[RedzaRamzan]

API is garbage....I highly doubt your phos is even detectable at that stage in the tank.
Unless you went with live rock, then that could happen.
Ps did I say api is terrible? Seriously, never do anything based on those results, I’ve seen mine test for 50+ nitrates on a 5 nitrate tank.

Whoops!! Gotta thrash them then, would NYOS be a good test kit?

I'll get a new test kit real quick and see what are the levels.

 

[ahiggins]

I’ve never used nyos but it could be-do some google searching for accuracies and comparisons. Brs has a good back to back testing with like 4 different kits. I’m a Red Sea, salifert, hanna (phos) kinda gal. Not cheap but accurate and when you do things to you expensive hobby, you want it to be the correct thing lol so I splurge on them

 

[RedzaRamzan]

I’ve never used nyos but it could be-do some google searching for accuracies and comparisons. Brs has a good back to back testing with like 4 different kits. I’m a Red Sea, salifert, hanna (phos) kinda gal. Not cheap but accurate and when you do things to you expensive hobby, you want it to be the correct thing lol so I splurge on them

Thank you! I'll do some research and see which is good, without costing an arm and a leg here in Malaysia (like the hanna)

 

[Clownfishy]

I personally feel the only phosphate testing kit worth using is the Hanna Phosphorus kit. As for Nitrate, none of them seem that easy to read but I believe the Nyos kit is one of the better ones.

 

[ahiggins]

I personally feel the only phosphate testing kit worth using is the Hanna Phosphorus kit. As for Nitrate, none of them seem that easy to read but I believe the Nyos kit is one of the better ones.

Well there ya go!
Malaysia huh? Wow

 

[Wampatom]

I have a tank with 0ppm nitrate and .2ppm phosphate (Sailfert test kit). I have some dinos but never a major outbreak.
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