Is this dino?

[DiverGirl82]

Just starting my first tank. I went away for the weekend and when I got home i discovered my rock has grown this algae. I wasn't too worried about it because I've got two crabs and a shrimp and I figured now they have a readily available food source and I could just add some snails. Now I've noticed it's also on the sand and a few very small spots on the glass. The stuff growing on the rocks has tiny bubbles coming from it. Now I'm worried it might be dino. My Halloween Hermit crab seems to enjoy eating it and gets the rocks white again wherever he grazes. I think my emerald crab might be eating it too. I can't really tell if the skunk shrimp is eating it or not. But if it was dino wouldn't it kill them?

 

[SifuMemphis]

No, looks like diatoms. Dino is brown with air bubbles

 

[DiverGirl82]

It has bubbles. At least on the rocks it does. I haven't noticed bubbles on the sand or glass.

 

[brandon429]

Not harmful


Just use rasping of water change hose to manually remove it, guide the reef don't sit back to it. It's practice for guiding the next round, green hair algae which has no place, no phase and no respite in the deliberate reef aquarium. We can simply allow and chance or remove and not. That is prob golden hue cyano mixed with diatoms agreed, these can be micro communities of mats competing for early space and nutrients, just guide it on out IMO and keep aging things. They can eat other items placed in the tank or you can let them graze this longer doesn't matter because in the end we control the garden.

 

[Waters]

Definitely looks like diatoms to me. Dinos (which I am currently fighting ) look totally different with a stringy, snotty appearance.

 

[jd371]

Yep diatoms, it was in my tank about month after I started it and lasted about a week. Now I'm dealing with cyano. I guess this the ugly stages of a new tanks I read about.

 

[DiverGirl82]

Thanks everybody. So glad it's not something more serious. This morning the little bubbles are all gone.

 

[ejxagraphic]

On another note, that live rock is you have is awesome.

 

[DiverGirl82]

On another note, that live rock is you have is awesome.

Thank you so much. That's actually BRS Reef Saver Dry Rock. It's mined out of the Earth (in FL I believe) so it's not taken out of the reef. Helps save the World's reefs and no nasty hitchhikers.