New home reef algea or dino or something else?

[xVanchOx]

Hello, I have a new aquarium arround 2 months old, and have some sort of ugly phase or Dino, or something else I am not sure. From two days I had awful smell in home from the aquarium. My parameters are good: KH 7,5; CA 430; MG 1400; PO4 0.02; nitrate 2,5; This is the picture of the algea that grows on the sandbed

This is a link from youtube for a short video of the aquarium:

Please tell me is this just a normal ugly phase and it will go away with time or its something more complex and need a fix.

 

[slingfox]

Looks and sounds like dinos.

 

[carri10]

From my limited experience that looks like dinos. First advice tends to be - get a cheap microscope and try to identify which type.

Plenty of threads on what to do next in the nuisance algae section.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I'm going to agree with everyone else, and they look like dinos to me

 

[xVanchOx]

Thank you all, now I need to figure out what to do

 

[Don’t fear the reefer]

Looks like ostreopsis. You probably have way low nutrients. Recipe for that is pretty well established:

1. Raise nitrate to ~15ppm and phosphate to ~0.15ppm
2. Siphon out most of the dinos
3. Dump in a bunch of bacteria like Microbacter7 to coat everything
4. Cut the lights and remove the filter socks
5. Nuke the hell out of the dinos for like 48 hours with UV-C

You can install a “real” UV sterilizer long-term. But for a quick bomb, just get a cheap, trashy, throwaway stick from Amazon for like $17. Drop it in the sump, run it nonstop (don’t look at it!!), and in like 2 days you should have total dino wasteland. I dropped it right behind the bubble trap so no dinos could avoid the slaughter.

Afterward, keep a super close eye on nutrients — they’re going to soar — and keep dumping in the Microbacter7 to make sure the monsters can’t come back. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a diatom bloom after. Not pretty but only temporary.

 

[BristleWormHater]

Looks like ostreopsis. You probably have way low nutrients. Recipe for that is pretty well established:

1. Raise nitrate to ~15ppm and phosphate to ~0.15ppm
2. Siphon out most of the dinos
3. Dump in a bunch of bacteria like Microbacter7 to coat everything
4. Cut the lights and remove the filter socks
5. Nuke the hell out of the dinos for like 48 hours with UV-C

You can install a “real” UV sterilizer long-term. But for a quick bomb, just get a cheap, trashy, throwaway stick from Amazon for like $17. Drop it in the sump, run it nonstop (don’t look at it!!), and in like 2 days you should have total dino wasteland. I dropped it right behind the bubble trap so no dinos could avoid the slaughter.

Afterward, keep a super close eye on nutrients — they’re going to soar — and keep dumping in the Microbacter7 to make sure the monsters can’t come back. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a diatom bloom after. Not pretty but only temporary.

Love the username!
Böc forever!

I was listening to dancing in the ruins when I read this lol

 

[xVanchOx]

Looks like ostreopsis. You probably have way low nutrients. Recipe for that is pretty well established:

1. Raise nitrate to ~15ppm and phosphate to ~0.15ppm
2. Siphon out most of the dinos
3. Dump in a bunch of bacteria like Microbacter7 to coat everything
4. Cut the lights and remove the filter socks
5. Nuke the hell out of the dinos for like 48 hours with UV-C

You can install a “real” UV sterilizer long-term. But for a quick bomb, just get a cheap, trashy, throwaway stick from Amazon for like $17. Drop it in the sump, run it nonstop (don’t look at it!!), and in like 2 days you should have total dino wasteland. I dropped it right behind the bubble trap so no dinos could avoid the slaughter.

Afterward, keep a super close eye on nutrients — they’re going to soar — and keep dumping in the Microbacter7 to make sure the monsters can’t come back. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a diatom bloom after. Not pretty but only temporary.

Thanks! Can you just put me some link for these trashy throwaway sticks from Amazon cuz I cant seem to find them.