lauren03
lauren
@lauren03 · 1 year ago

Do you guys think this is cyano ?

I did a round of Chemiclean and did the water change yesterday along with a lot of manual cleaning. This is what it looks like this afternoon so I started another cycle of chemiclean. It’s growing in sort of a slime texture to the point that the thicker sections I could tweeze out the globs from the sand. It also was stringy with air bubbles in some parts.

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User Avatar @billy 1y

Doesn’t look like cyano. Cyano is a deep red color. I’m guessing either diatoms or Dino’s not exactly sure

User Avatar @lauren03 1y

Got it, it has such a weird consistency. My crabs don’t touch it either

User Avatar @ClintonHueston900 1y

Dinoflaget

User Avatar @ClintonHueston900 1y

Phosphate and nitrate imbalance or bottomed out need to dose natural bacteria microbacter 7 for brightwell or dr.tims waste away or do a method i tried raise temperature to 80 to 83 and dose iron and yes high temperature won't hurt coral and inverts or fish actually corals grow faster rin these temperature but fial temperature up over a few days while dosing iron there is a video on U tube about it if you have questions and also add copepods.

User Avatar @lauren03 1y

I added microbacter7, some manual cleaning and turned the light off. I added some copepods about a month ago. Such a big difference thank you!! I would raise the temp but the heater I have at the moment isn’t adjustable. I’ll try that next if it comes back.

User Avatar @I_Never_Finish_Anythi 1y

Dinoflagellate I'd say . What are you're nutrient levels ?

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