Hello everyone. Please help me identify this algae and suggest what to do with it. This algae appeared roughly 2 months ago, before nutrients have dropped
Clues:
- Removed biomass from tank stinks. Smells like iodine with some nasty staff or something close to it
- it can be blown off from rock easily
- snails can eat it
- produces tiny bubbles on top of it under light during day
- disappears from sand bed during the night
- doesn’t bother fish
Tank info:
- 4 months old
- 0ppm ammonia, nitrite
- started dosing nitrate and phosphates a month ago since they have dropped to 0. Now nitrate 7ppm, phosphates 0.08ppm
- alk 9
- pH 8.2
- temperature 80
- have skimmer, sump with chaeto, filter sock
stock:
- 2 clowns, 4 chromis, gramma, blenny
- couple of corals. All doing very bad
images/videos:
Took videos since it is very difficult to hold camera still over cheap microscope. It says 1200x magnification..
Long shaped cells I suppose are diatoms, what about small creatures? Some of them depending on biomass move, some of them are still. I noticed that worm-looking bacteria when it touches small cells, they stop moving.
Clues:
- Removed biomass from tank stinks. Smells like iodine with some nasty staff or something close to it
- it can be blown off from rock easily
- snails can eat it
- produces tiny bubbles on top of it under light during day
- disappears from sand bed during the night
- doesn’t bother fish
Tank info:
- 4 months old
- 0ppm ammonia, nitrite
- started dosing nitrate and phosphates a month ago since they have dropped to 0. Now nitrate 7ppm, phosphates 0.08ppm
- alk 9
- pH 8.2
- temperature 80
- have skimmer, sump with chaeto, filter sock
stock:
- 2 clowns, 4 chromis, gramma, blenny
- couple of corals. All doing very bad
images/videos:
Took videos since it is very difficult to hold camera still over cheap microscope. It says 1200x magnification..
Long shaped cells I suppose are diatoms, what about small creatures? Some of them depending on biomass move, some of them are still. I noticed that worm-looking bacteria when it touches small cells, they stop moving.
