What is this?

[lthary]

I have a 100g new tank and this is growing on my rock and sand . What I'm dealing with and how I can make it gone!

 

[OREGONIC]

Looks like cyano to me, could be dinos to. Either way vacuum it of the sand and rock, you can useaturky baster to get it loose if need be. If it starts spreading like crazy you can always use chemi clean, I have used it 2 times fo cyano and had no negative effects from it, just follow the directions carefully. As your tank matures it will go through several stages of the uglies.

 

[lthary]

Thanks

 

[lthary]

I will try to clean it,and go from there

 

[lthary]

I have clean all of the nesty stuff and in about 3 days is all over my rock again. Any advice how can I get this under control? And maybe tell me what it's?

 

[lthary]

The picture don't show , but is brown long hair looking thing

 

[JohnnyReef]

When you say new tank, how new are you talking?

 

[lthary]

About 2-3 months

 

[lthary]

And the ugly thing is spreading and growing fast

 

[JohnnyReef]

That’s a young tank, it’s probably still going through it’s cycle. I wouldn’t try and use any additives just yet. Let it do it’s thing and keep up on Water changes.

 

[lthary]

Part of me know is not good to use any additive, but part is like, I can't look at this ugly tank!

 

[JohnnyReef]

Patience and time with this hobby.

 

[lthary]

I know, I had a small 40g tank and no problems like this with that one

 

[OREGONIC]

Does it look worse when the lights are on and some what disapear a few hours after they are off?

 

[lthary]

It seems they don't care about the light

 

[OREGONIC]

It really looks like the cyano i got a few times when my tank was younger, but mine would die back and almost disappear off m sand bed at night and within a hours of my lights being on would be back in full force, if not worse. At the beginning of the 2 outbreaks i was able to keep it at bay by blasting the sand and rock with a turkey baster evey day and vacuuming the sand and rock every week. Both times it would slowly get a little worse day bu day. I was very reluctant to use anything but eventually used chemi clean. It truly does work wonders and did not hurt anything. The owners of one of the LFS i go to convinced me to try the chemi clean, explained it to me as cyano is not algae it is bacteria, treat it directly and it will go away. I have seen zero spots since the second time I used it. Just my experience.

 

[lthary]

The one I have is no way i can use a turkey baster , last time I have clean I use a tooth brush to clean the rock

 

[lthary]

And to clean the sand I had use the vacuum , but I had to remove some sand to , it was like a blanket in the sand

 

[lthary]

And pretty long strings dancing in the water current