Help! Cycle going too fast?

[TBLDiver]

I'm roughly one week into my cycle on my new Biocube 29 (I have another thread going in the build section). All of a sudden I am experiencing what (I think) is a diatom bloom. I am also getting what appears to be brown hair algae, and some other algae with air bubbles. Is all this normal? Should I do a water change and put in the skimmer and filter media?

Tonight's parameters:

1.026
83.5 F (keeping increased temp during cycling)
Ammonia 2ppm
Nitrite 5.0 ppm
Nitrate 40 ppm

 

[TBLDiver]

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[ncaldwell]

It all looks like diatoms to me. Your cycle is going fine. I wouldn't worry about it. Once the ammonia, nitrite, and to an extent nitrate get to zero you can start slowly adding some snails or hermits to work on the diatoms. Looks as it should to me

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[TBLDiver]

If it just diatoms then I'm not worried. But now from the research I'm doing, it looks like it may be dinos instead? Anyone else?

 

[GoVols]

Diatoms are very normal during the cycling process.

Either way finish your cycling before any water changes!

Diatoms will blow around easily by waving your hand over live rock. Dino's won't.
Can't tell from the pictures.

Lets say after your cycle is complete and you have Dinos. After all other measures have been taken and you can't get rid of the Dinos Dino-X will do the job. You must follow directions to a tee!

Could be a lot of things. Be patient and make sure it's really Dinos.

Hopefully it's Diatoms and that's very normal.

 

[Fbrondum]

Looks like Diatoms to me. Did you buy wet rock? My tank cycled unusually fast too but I still waited a week after initial 0's to make sure. Patience now will pay off later.


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[Overbite]

did you use old salt water from a tank to cycle or new salt mix?

 

[Fbrondum]

New salt mix with rodi. Here were my diatoms at about 3 weeks in and a pic of the tank about a month later.

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[Fbrondum]

Sorry didn't know you meant the OP lol


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[TBLDiver]

New mix salt water, and 3 pieces of live rock. The rest were dry rock. I used maybe a tablespoon of sand from the old tank to get some more bacteria in there.

After keeping the lights off for 3 days, all the brown stuff has died off. Does that sound like diatoms over dinos?

 

[Fbrondum]

Yup diatoms need silicate in the water once they use it all they disappear. Can reappear if silicates get high but I'd say that was a diatom bloom.


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