I went on vacation last week and when I returned my frag tank was a mess due to a series of unfortunate events that started with me adding a bunch of cured rock before I left, continued with my filter socks and sponges becoming clogged, and ended with the 5 gallon contents of my ATO dumped into the tank. I posted on R2R about it when I thought it was more of a bacterial/ algae bloom.
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Anyway. Are these the dreaded Dino's or something else? It's getting worse and I'm starting to see some coral casualties. This stuff is like slime and will completely clog a filter sock in about 15 minutes. I don't see it disappearing and reappearing at night like some accounts. I can in general blow it off the corals with a Turkey baster. One coral I blew off last night RTN'd. One suggestion that was given to me was to introduce some GHA, but I am reluctant to do that since it has turned into such a battle with my display.
I will have access to a microscope tomorrow while I am at work, so hopefully I can analyze it there. I did find the thread where you add some hydrogen peroxide and observe for bubbles to detect cyano versus dino's. From that test about 20% of the sample formed bubbles (cyano) the rest did not (potentially dino's). I tried the coffee filter test next and I did not see re-clumping of the material, but I'm not sure if I might have too fine of a coffee filter for that purpose.
Here is a picture from today. I am moving to a 4 hour light cycle, but considering a total blackout if I have the right diagnosis. It's growing even in the dark in my opinion.
Added Reef Rock now have algae bloom?
Anyone know what I am dealing with here? I added some Marco Reef Rock that I cured for 3 weeks using Reef Brite Live Rock enhance according to the directions. Before I cured the rock, I bleached it and then soaked in Citric acid for 2 hours with the goal of removing any residual phosphate that...
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Anyway. Are these the dreaded Dino's or something else? It's getting worse and I'm starting to see some coral casualties. This stuff is like slime and will completely clog a filter sock in about 15 minutes. I don't see it disappearing and reappearing at night like some accounts. I can in general blow it off the corals with a Turkey baster. One coral I blew off last night RTN'd. One suggestion that was given to me was to introduce some GHA, but I am reluctant to do that since it has turned into such a battle with my display.
I will have access to a microscope tomorrow while I am at work, so hopefully I can analyze it there. I did find the thread where you add some hydrogen peroxide and observe for bubbles to detect cyano versus dino's. From that test about 20% of the sample formed bubbles (cyano) the rest did not (potentially dino's). I tried the coffee filter test next and I did not see re-clumping of the material, but I'm not sure if I might have too fine of a coffee filter for that purpose.
Here is a picture from today. I am moving to a 4 hour light cycle, but considering a total blackout if I have the right diagnosis. It's growing even in the dark in my opinion.
