cyano or sponge?

[Anonymous]

Starting to look like a Dinoflagillate outbreak. I hope Len's right with the Sponge ID.

Ok, if it's Dinoflagilate, how do you get rid of it? or should I get rid of it? What eats it? Even if it's fine...it is starting to go all over....very very slowly, but surely.

~wings~

If it's solid enough to pinch of chunks then it's not Dino. Dino has the consistence of snot.

 

[Anonymous]

Starting to look like a Dinoflagillate outbreak. I hope Len's right with the Sponge ID.

Ok, if it's Dinoflagilate, how do you get rid of it? or should I get rid of it? What eats it? Even if it's fine...it is starting to go all over....very very slowly, but surely.

~wings~

If it's solid enough to pinch of chunks then it's not Dino. Dino has the consistence of snot.

Then, it's not Dino. :?
~wings~

 

[Anonymous]

It's some form of algae, I feel certain. Doesn't look like sponge to me.

 

[Anonymous]

I will try and take some really good pics of it tonight, I have some on a rock I can move next to the glass.

Soon as I get a shower....

 

[Anonymous]

No pics

Here is a description of mine.


Dark red velvety looking stuff, when you blow it with a turkey baster hard, and I mean at point blank range and as hard as you can large sections of it will come loose from the rock its on. I pulled a bunch out tonight and it really seems to be some sort of algae.

The cyano I had seems to have responded well to repeated treatments of turkey baster cyano crap shoot...

This stuff though, its spreading fairly rapidly, I am loosening it up and pulling chunks out by hand. Tonight I got rid of a bunch, about a measuring cup full of it after I had drained the water out of it.

Do I mind it?

Well, a bit, if there was just some here and there it wouldn't be bad, but it covered over a rock with finger leather on it completely.

Its sort of like the blob.....


I feel sure the biggest reason I have it is lack of flow, I switched to RO water and have noticed a reduction in most of the algae I had, however I have not got the flow in the tank quite right yet. I lost about 500 gph when I changed things around.

So, anyway, I will try to get a pic sometime this week.

 

[Anonymous]

Sounds like the same stuff. Get a pic if you can.
~wings~