AetherealKnight
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Visually they look like diatoms but as Lavey29 said we need more info to be sure.
The tanks parameters are
Phos- .02
Nitrates-10
Ammonia-0
Nitrites-0
Alk-10
Mag-1250
Cal-400
Tank is a little over a year old and have never had this issue ever. This issue has been happening for a little over a month.
Guessing your bottomed out phosphate resulted in dinos then
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Im leaning towards dino mixed with algae from heavy light. Often you cannot go by levels of nitrate or phosphate nut often when low, we assume the low to zero numbers are the culprit when in essence the dino structure has consumed nitrate and phosphate and the tank if overtaken by dino cell. Identifying with microscope is most effective as well as possible appearance of the structure.I can’t tell if this is dinos or diatoms
For both dino and cyano, providing No light is first key followed by the addition of liquid bacteria to overcome the bad bacteria which is allowing them to thrive
Prepare by starting by blowing this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles. Turn lights off (at least white and run blue at 10% IF you have light dependant corals such as SPS) for 5 days and at night dose 1ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights which works as an oxidizer. If you dont have light dependent coral- turn all lights off. During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as micro bacter 7 or XLM) per 10 gallons. Clean filters daily and DO NOT FEED AMINO OR ADD NOPOX which is food for dinos, however you can feed coral, food which will help no3 and po4 to increase. If increasing nutrients, try to keep no3 to about 5 until you are done battling these cells.
Doing a daily siphoning will help greatly But . . . . . Siphoning will reduce nutrients , so siphon the water into/through a filter sock and save the water and return it back to tank. Obviously clean the filter sock each time.
You can feed fish as normal and if doing blackout, ambient light in room will work for them
Is this tank by chance at or near a window?
Do you use any tap water for top off or mixing salt?
thank you so much for the help. I have a xr15 gen 6 at 60% and a xr30 gen 5 30% i run them for 8 hours with 1 hour of whites. I have an RODI system and mix my own saltwater. It’s near a window but it’s always shut and it never has seemed to affect the tank within the year of it being next to it. I have only have one SPS and the rest are LPS and soft corals. Is it worth keeping the lights on just for that one coral?
I appreciate all of the feedback from everyone
I appreciate all of the feedback from everyone
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