So I started my ugly phase about two-and-a-half to three months ago. it was just a light dusting of diatoms but now it's starting to get long and stringy like a spider web. Just want to make sure it's not something else. I'm getting ready to add to my cleanup Crew since many of them have perished and I'm also adding a second wave maker to take care of some low-flow areas. the picture is a shot of my glass but I have it in other areas attached to my rock work as well. All of it is brown
Bad diatoms or something else?
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yea its suspected low nutrients is the reason for them i got rid of mine by doing a lot less water changes and running UV
+1 on the UV
I went with a Jebao 55w one on Amazon. How big is your tank? I had Dino's for about 2-3 months. The UV finally took care of them. Increase your nutrients do a 3 day black out. Some people have seen that raising the temp to 81-82 can help with Dino's.
I use the jabeo 55 watt sterilizer its cheap but works. Its quite large too though.
They have a 39watt thats much smaller
So I went for the blackout method. This stuff really started taking off on the sand, rock and some of my corals. I tried blasting it off the glass and sand last night and then siphoned it is well. didn't seem like it put a big enough dent in it. Hopefully the blackout will get me back to ground zero and then I can just work on raising my nitrates.
How old's the system? I had something really similar when I started up my coral QT and I figured it was a combo of GHA and diatom getting together. The tank aged out of that phase without much intervention.
+1. Hated those things, so glad we overcame them!
Look for coralife turbo twist. I have one on my QT and a larger one on my DT and they are compact but work great! And they don’t break the bank
If you have a carbon reactor we ran that during the blackout to clear the Dino toxin as they died. Shawn @aestheticlibra was absolutely our savior. Dinos almost did us in.
The tank has been up since about the middle of January this year. I was going to try and let them phase out but they started choking some of my coral and I didn't want to lose any.
I do run carbon so hopefully that will help
