Possible Dinos?

[bambootikigirl]

So after maybe a month to a month and a half ago I had a diatoms bloom I started seeing some weird stuff growing on my rocks. I didn't think much of it until maybe a week ago when I started seeing stringy bubbles. The bubbles were slowly being released into the tank and just popping once hitting the waterline. I was informed that could be Dino and I looked at some photos and it looked pretty similar. So I covered the tank for 72hrs and I just uncovered it to see there was still weird algae on the rocks.

Here are the photos and videos:

 

[Reefer40b]

Looks like a fresh tank... when was this setup?

 

[bambootikigirl]

Looks like a fresh tank... when was this setup?

I started the cycle mid-June and put inverts at the end of July.

 

[reeferfoxx]

Not dinos. Most likely diatoms. The rocks are too clean.

 

[James M]

Your tank is going there the uglies

 

[bambootikigirl]

Not dinos. Most likely diatoms. The rocks are too clean.

It already had diatoms which then turned into the weird stringy bubble stuff. I did a blackout for 72hrs and the photos are of the outcome of the blackout. Diatoms can have stringy bubbles?

Your tank is going there the uglies

So this isn’t Dino just beginner gross stuff?

 

[Dennis McGrath]

The pictures sure looked like diatoms, but the description you give, makes it sound like Dinos.

 

[bambootikigirl]

The pictures sure looked like diatoms, but the description you give, makes it sound like Dinos.

I always thought diatoms was flat brown spots?

 

[Dennis McGrath]

Dinos usually look like stringy snot with bubbles. Maybe my vision is not so great though, and someone who has a lot more experience can chime in.

 

[bambootikigirl]

Dinos usually look like stringy snot with bubbles. Maybe my vision is not so great though, and someone who has a lot more experience can chime in.

Yeah that’s what I had before the blackout but I’m curious if the photos are still them just not fully gone or not.

 

[Javamahn]

Buy a cheap microscope and know sure. Anything else is a guess

 

[bambootikigirl]

Buy a cheap microscope and know sure. Anything else is a guess

What in this hobby is cheap? Lol. Anyways, got a link to one? No idea where to even begin searching for something like that.

 

[Javamahn]

you can find them on amazon for under $20 and they will do the job just fine.

 

[reeferfoxx]

@bambootikigirl

Does it look like this?

 

[bambootikigirl]

@bambootikigirl

Does it look like this?

Doesn't look like either of those photos.

 

[bambootikigirl]

@bambootikigirl

Does it look like this?

I posted a video in the main post of what it looks like right now.

 

[bambootikigirl]

Just took another video.

 

[Javamahn]

you can test initially for dinos using the paper towel test. Siphon some of the brown threads into a cupful of tank water. Stir the water up until the threads are dissolved. Pour the water into a clear glass through a paper towel and leave in the light. Dinos at 10 microns will go through the paper towel and reassemble themselves into a strand again after about an hour. Also are you testing for Nitrates and Phosphates. do not let those hit zero. You pictures do not look like dinoflagellates to me but without a microscope it is still a guess and if it is dinos you still need a microscope to identify which genus it is because you use different treatments based on which type. There are already very large threads in this forum specific to dinos.

 

[bambootikigirl]

you can test initially for dinos using the paper towel test. Siphon some of the brown threads into a cupful of tank water. Stir the water up until the threads are dissolved. Pour the water into a clear glass through a paper towel and leave in the light. Dinos at 10 microns will go through the paper towel and reassemble themselves into a strand again after about an hour. Also are you testing for Nitrates and Phosphates. do not let those hit zero. You pictures do not look like dinoflagellates to me but without a microscope it is still a guess and if it is dinos you still need a microscope to identify which genus it is because you use different treatments based on which type. There are already very large threads in this forum specific to dinos.

Do I leave it in sunlight or the tanks LEDs light? The strands in the medicine small cup I'm using aren't dissolving fully, do they have to be completely gone?

 

[bambootikigirl]

you can test initially for dinos using the paper towel test. Siphon some of the brown threads into a cupful of tank water. Stir the water up until the threads are dissolved. Pour the water into a clear glass through a paper towel and leave in the light. Dinos at 10 microns will go through the paper towel and reassemble themselves into a strand again after about an hour. Also are you testing for Nitrates and Phosphates. do not let those hit zero. You pictures do not look like dinoflagellates to me but without a microscope it is still a guess and if it is dinos you still need a microscope to identify which genus it is because you use different treatments based on which type. There are already very large threads in this forum specific to dinos.

Okay well I sucked up some of the algae and stirred it the best I could, then poured it onto a paper towel into a medicine cup (those small ones you get for liquid meds for kids). The water that didn't get sucked up by the towel dripped into the cup and I left it sitting under my LED lights for an hour. I didn't see anything in the water so I tried leaving it outside in direct sunlight for an hour too. Both times I didn't see anything in the water, so I am guessing it's not dinos.