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5 month old tank still in the ugly phase can anyone tell me if the reddish stuff bad or not I used to only have brown and green algae but this started popping up on a couple rocks.
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Pic fuzzy but appears to be dino.
Prepare by starting with a water change and blow this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles.
Turn lights off (at least white and run blue at 10-15% IF you have light dependant corals) for 5 days and at night dose 1ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights. If you dont have light dependent coral- turn all lights off.
During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as bacter 7 or XLM) per 10 gallons.
Clean filters daily and DO NOT FEED CORAL FOODS OR ADD NOPOX as it is food for dinos.
Day 5,, you can start with blue lights - ramping up and work your white lights up slowly
 
If its cyano, keep phosphates between 0.03-0.1ppm (preferably om the lower end) and nitrate >0 (at least 5ppm is a good place). Cyano seems to thrive in ultra low nitrate and elevated phosphate environments
 

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