What the heck are these bubbles?
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I recently went through something very similar. During a water change I stirred my sand with the hose refilling my tank with new salt water. Needless to say a brown hair algae covered the Rock and I have almost zero clean up crew. I ordered a cleanup crew and it should be here tomorrow.
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Cyano Bacteria
I didn't have a problem with dinos until I started running a GFO and Carbon reactor. After 3 years of otherwise problem free reefing, I've decided to scrap the Carbon and only run with Phosban or some other PO4 reduction method.
Coincidental? Maybe, but I've been reading some stories lately that are linking carbon usage to problems within tanks and I can't help but wonder...
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Cyano often starts out that way. It would be hard to tell until it grew more for sure.
doesnt look like dinos to me me either
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I believe your going through a normal cycle on those rock and the bubbles are gas bubbles caused by the bacteria on the rock, I've been down that road before.
I dropped a small pump with a plastic tube connected to it in the tank an use it to blow off all the rock with the slim on it an allow it to go down to the sump and collect in a sock, I had to do this a few times till it was all gone.
I dropped a small pump with a plastic tube connected to it in the tank an use it to blow off all the rock with the slim on it an allow it to go down to the sump and collect in a sock, I had to do this a few times till it was all gone.
Looks like cyano to me, and the bubbles are just air bubbles resulting from it.
Scrub it off, tweak the flow to prevent the cyano from settling. If there was a lot of flow there, those bubbles would dislodge and not get 'stuck' in the cyano.
Nitrate that is processed into nitrogen gasses off that way too - the bubbles just aren't seen because they aren't caught on anything.
Jenn
Scrub it off, tweak the flow to prevent the cyano from settling. If there was a lot of flow there, those bubbles would dislodge and not get 'stuck' in the cyano.
Nitrate that is processed into nitrogen gasses off that way too - the bubbles just aren't seen because they aren't caught on anything.
Jenn
Thanks all, looks like my Mexican turbo got a hold of some of the rock and is cleaning like crazy. I altered my flow as well. The single rock I pulled out and scrubbed has no bubbles returning. I think my CUC is lacking as well so I'll grab more for the substrate.
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looks like dinos to me.
brown snotty bubbly balls of yum. you can see if they are by filling a tupperware container halfway with tank water, put a lid on it and let it float. if the lower part grows strings or brown stuff attaches. it is most assuredly dinos. only takes an hour to 90 minutes before you see them attach.
if not. probably cyano of some sort.
brown snotty bubbly balls of yum. you can see if they are by filling a tupperware container halfway with tank water, put a lid on it and let it float. if the lower part grows strings or brown stuff attaches. it is most assuredly dinos. only takes an hour to 90 minutes before you see them attach.
if not. probably cyano of some sort.
