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I am certain that I have dinos in my tank as the sand, rocks, and glass are becoming covered in stringy algae that has a lot of bubbles wrapped up in the dinos.
Will someone please help me ID what type of dino this is though and possibly give me some steps to take in order to defeat these dinos?
When I looking under the microscope I think that diatoms are also starting to grow in the tank, if this is the case should I just let the diatoms take over?

I went ahead and got some NeoNitro and NeoPhos so that I can be sure that I can keep my nitrates and phosphates detectable on my hanna checkers.

Since my last water change this past Saturday I've been dosing microbacter7 to the tank daily and have been feeding the tank 2 times a day with quite a bit of food in hopes of raising the nitrates and phosphates. I also went ahead and started with my first dose of vibrant on Saturday as well.
I last checked my parameters on Friday and the nutrient levels were as follows: Nitrate: 2.5ppm Phosphate: 0.02ppm
I mostly just want to check and see if this course of action will help me defeat the dinos?

I plan to retest the nutrient levels later on today and will post the results here.

Thanks in advance for any help and advice given!
 

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I tested the nutrient levels in the tank before feeding the fish and they read as follows:
Nitrates: 5.2ppm Phosphates: 0.02ppm
 

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