Need help identifying

[Madonia]

This tank was set up on 09/04/20. About 3.5 months old. Tank is the waterbox 130.4.
Lights: reefbreeders photon 48 V2+
UV: pentair 40 with varios 6 pump. Input from skimmeroutput to return chamber.
Skimmer : RSK 300
Refugium: on for 12 hours a day
Carbon/GFO reactor: has been off for a week due to phosphates of 0.004 and nitrates at 1ppm last week (see updated parameters taken 2 days ago)
Dosing:
acropower 4ml / day
neonitro every other day (nitrates stay at 1ppm)
MB clean x 1 dose yesterday.
Recent MB7 dose 5 days ago.
2 part alk/cal
Chemi clean x 1 dose about 3 weeks ago for
Cyano outbreak. Got rid of all the cyano, but now cyano coming back in areas.


automatic water changes with the dos...0tds RODI....started 5 days ago. Have been doing 3
Gallons change per night. Plan to decrease this upcoming week to 1.5 gallons per night.

Parameters:
phosphate 0.08
Nitrate 1ppm consistently
Alk 8.2
Ph 8.2-8.4

microscope in mail, will try to identify when
It comes.

 

[Madonia]

This tank was set up on 09/04/20. About 3.5 months old. Tank is the waterbox 130.4.
Lights: reefbreeders photon 48 V2+
UV: pentair 40 with varios 6 pump. Input from skimmeroutput to return chamber.
Skimmer : RSK 300
Refugium: on for 12 hours a day
Carbon/GFO reactor: has been off for a week due to phosphates of 0.004 and nitrates at 1ppm last week (see updated parameters taken 2 days ago)
Dosing:
acropower 4ml / day
neonitro every other day (nitrates stay at 1ppm)
MB clean x 1 dose yesterday.
Recent MB7 dose 5 days ago.
2 part alk/cal
Chemi clean x 1 dose about 3 weeks ago for
Cyano outbreak. Got rid of all the cyano, but now cyano coming back in areas.


automatic water changes with the dos...0tds RODI....started 5 days ago. Have been doing 3
Gallons change per night. Plan to decrease this upcoming week to 1.5 gallons per night.

Parameters:
phosphate 0.08
Nitrate 1ppm consistently
Alk 8.2
Ph 8.2-8.4

microscope in mail, will try to identify when
It comes.

Any recommendations appreciated!!

 

[Madonia]

Update: phosphate today is 0 on hanna ULR. Dosed phosphate to bring up to 0.02 as per instruction.

will shut down reactor, refugium, and skimmer for today and retest tomorrow.

 

[Madonia]

Bump

 

[Bfragale]

Does the brown algae on the sand go away at night and reappear the next day?

it visually looks like diatoms, but I had something that looks very much the same. It ended up being a strain of Dinoflagellates. The strain I had/have (still battling it) does not have air bubbles like most other strains. So I never thought it was Dino’s, but then I scooped it and for sure its Dino’s. Weird thing is I have high po4 and no3- where most Dino’s show up in low or Zero po4/no3 tanks.

once you get the microscope you can tell for sure. There is no real way to tell otherwise.

I did 3 day black out- it recessed but didn’t go away

I raised tank to 82 degrees- seems to slow the daily “come back” but didn’t solve it.

move been treating with vibrant for 2 months (1/2 dose)

I have seen it get a little less and less each day. I still see some spots here and there but much much better and hopefully soon it will be completely gone.

cyano- do a second round of chemiclean - take Carbon out and remove skimmer cup for 48 hours. Should take care if it.

good luck- once you get your microscope let us know what your find. Take care. Happy reefing

 

[Madonia]

It looks like it goes away (mostly- not entirey) and then reappears at night.