Microscopic ID?

[TheLoneSeaMonkey]

I had bryopsis and treated my tank with fluconazole, and at the same time I had a high phosphate problem so I worked on getting that down. The bryopsis turned into like a gelatinous goo and I removed as much as I could from the tank but now the goo seems to be growing. I did a wet prep today and this what I found - it isn’t moving at all so I don’t think it’s Dino’s. There are some filamentous pieces in there too that I was able to get a picture of at 2500x the others are at 1000x and 100x. I am including some pictures of the gunk too. Does anyone know what it might be?

 

[taricha]

chrysophytes.

 

[taricha]

By the way, we are just figuring out what does and does not work against these guys. Algaefix etc is effective, and thank you for demonstrating that fluconazole is not.

 

[TheLoneSeaMonkey]

Glad to be of service I will pick up some algaefix to try to get rid of it, thanks for the info!

 

[bobssecrtsn]

Any updates on this thread ?

 

[TheLoneSeaMonkey]

Any updates on this thread ?

I haven’t tried algaefix yet because my snails seem to be eating it. My bryopsis is back now though so I need to add more fluconazole so we will see it flares up again.