algae identification

Hi all, hopefully you can help me!! I have a 24 gallon AIO waterbox peninsula, roughly 8 months old. I have been battling algae for the last 4-5 months. I believe its a combination of diatom, dinos and maybe cyano? the algae doesn’t completely disappear at night, but does reduce slightly. If...

This has been growing in my tank lately and need to know what it is so I can get rid of it

Hey all, I'm new with reefing and this is my first algae bloom that wasn't diatoms. At first I thought it was just a heavy case of them but they seam more maroon than rusty color like I've been use to seeing and they have these little strings forming and trapping little o2 bubbles up in the slab...

Hi all, Recently I changed skimmers and my chaeto died off, and now is back with a different texture (weird right - it’s much thicker, darker green, and stiffer than earlier) and what seems to be a new species or algae has started growing on the water surface. Any idea what this is stuff is...

I hate to be that "What's this?" guy but I wanted to confirm what I'm looking at here. Based on descriptions and images on the web, I believe it to be diatoms but wanted someone else’s opinion. My concern is that my NO3 and PO4 have both read 0 for months now so I concerned that it’s dinos...

Hi only been reefing 3 months, can anyone give me information on the following images….. Thank-you in advance….. One image I have some green colour on sand the next looks a bit like a skin of deep purple….. If you zoom in on center of the next image you can see something like a dandelion seed...

What is this that is taking over my tank!? These are the best pictures I could get with my son’s microscope. But I figure someone out there might be able to I.D. what it is…. At first I thought dinos or diatoms because they came back worse when I cleaned them and did water changes. After...