Ok, what is it Dino or Diatoms

[hkgar]

Might just be one of the most asked questions, so thanks for your help - in advance.







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I blows off very easy but is back very quickly.

Nitrate 0 Red Sea Pro
PO4 .006 (Hannah phosphorus checker

 

[hkgar]

Last week, as a final battle against problem GHA, I removed every rock and scrubbed the algae off. The rocks were then sprayed with Hydrogen Peroxide, let stand 4-5 minutes salt water rinse and return. One third of rock each day over 3 days.

Might be a cause of whatever this is?

 

[ridetheducati]

Dinos. May not be the toxic version.

 

[B.BASH]

Dino's are usually long and stringy (snot like)with an air bubble at the end. Additional info will help with your issue.

 

[hkgar]

Dinos. May not be the toxic version.

Toxic?

 

[hkgar]

Dino's are usually long and stringy (snot like)with an air bubble at the end. Additional info will help with your issue.

What additional info would you like?

 

[B.BASH]

Alk/mg/cal do you run reactors? carbon or gfo.' wc history. do you over feed ? Ther are toxic and and non toxic Dino's snails will die after eating the toxic kind.

 

[B.BASH]

Last week, as a final battle against problem GHA, I removed every rock and scrubbed the algae off. The rocks were then sprayed with Hydrogen Peroxide, let stand 4-5 minutes salt water rinse and return. One third of rock each day over 3 days.

Might be a cause of whatever this is?

It is possible you wiped out a good portion of beneficial bacteria and caused another cycle have you tested ammonia and nitrite ?

 

[Dkuhlmann]

It is possible you wiped out a good portion of beneficial bacteria and caused another cycle have you tested ammonia and nitrite ?

My thoughts exactly!

 

[hkgar]

Alk/mg/cal do you run reactors? carbon or gfo.' wc history. do you over feed ? Ther are toxic and and non toxic Dino's snails will die after eating the toxic kind.

Alk 8.0 dKh
Mag 1450
CA 450
I run GFO and Carbon
I have the system set to do continuous WC at about 3 gallons per day. Using Apex Dos for that.

I feed very little except maybe dried seaweed. 1 inch by 3 inch strip per day on algae clip.

 

[B.BASH]

It's hard to tell looks like Dino

 

[hkgar]

It is possible you wiped out a good portion of beneficial bacteria and caused another cycle have you tested ammonia and nitrite ?

I thought of that. Using an ammonia alert and it reads 0

 

[B.BASH]

You've disturbed your tank quite a bit I would manually remove as much as I can and c what happens over the next couple of weeks . I have read pretty good success with peroxide dosing and Dino's but I would only do that as a last resort

 

[PhaneSoul]

its simple. you have excess nutrients that were feeding the algae, you killed the algae with peroxide, and dinos being bacteria were not affected (or whatever it is) by the peroxide are now competition free and have takin over feeding off your excess nutrients.

same thing is happening in my 10g after I added sand in an established barebottom tank.

 

[gaberosenfield]

Not to disagree with any of the advice here, but dinoflagellates are not bacteria. They are single celled eukaryotic algae. Symbiotic zooxanthellae that live in our corals are also a type of dinoflagellate in the genus Symbiodinium. You were probably thinking of Cyanobacteria, which are a type of bacteria.