OK, so I've been dealing with some sort of aglae issue or another for a couple months. At first I figured "new tank, no skimmer, good input water, it'll pass".
Two months later, I'm still waiting. First is was run-of-the-mill green hair, no big deal, pulled a bunch out over a few weeks of water changes, and it changed over to a mor complex, darker green fern-like stuff, and some greyish brillo-pad stuff. Again, pulled a bunch out over a few weeks.
Well, I went on vacation, and am just getting things back to normal, but I fighting some new stuff I've never seen. It looks like a brown cyano. Is there such a thing? It doesn't grow in patches like the cyano I've dealt with in other tanks, it sort of clings to the remianing hair aglae, making the hairy stuff look much more substantial than it actually is.
Qualities it shares with cyano: it's color is most entirely faded each morning, and comes back over the course of the day, and its pretty easy to blast it off using the baster.
I'm puzzled. I did hook up my Remora this past weekend, and have been pretty religious about the water changes. All input water is RO/DI, and (of course) all params test great with my Salifert kits.
Is this cyano?
Two months later, I'm still waiting. First is was run-of-the-mill green hair, no big deal, pulled a bunch out over a few weeks of water changes, and it changed over to a mor complex, darker green fern-like stuff, and some greyish brillo-pad stuff. Again, pulled a bunch out over a few weeks.
Well, I went on vacation, and am just getting things back to normal, but I fighting some new stuff I've never seen. It looks like a brown cyano. Is there such a thing? It doesn't grow in patches like the cyano I've dealt with in other tanks, it sort of clings to the remianing hair aglae, making the hairy stuff look much more substantial than it actually is.
Qualities it shares with cyano: it's color is most entirely faded each morning, and comes back over the course of the day, and its pretty easy to blast it off using the baster.
I'm puzzled. I did hook up my Remora this past weekend, and have been pretty religious about the water changes. All input water is RO/DI, and (of course) all params test great with my Salifert kits.
Is this cyano?
