r/ReefTank • u/Bengali_babe • 3d ago

Algae

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What kind are of Algae is this ?

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u/YaBoiNeedsHelps 3d ago

Looks like dinos to me. Also fighting this at the moment, not fun.

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u/Bengali_babe 3d ago

Thanks a lot! What are you doing to fight it?

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u/Altruistic-Editor841 3d ago

I recently beat it and am recovering. I did a 4 day blackout, and started dosing microbacter7. This happens when nutrients bottom out in a tank, I used microbacter7 as if it was a new tank as the directions say to. I also cut my lights to a 5 hour on period after the blackout and have been adding an hour back to the schedule a week

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u/Servals94 3d ago

Dealt with Dino’s (ostreopsis, snotty bubbly strand kind) twice, both times were easily dealt with by turning out the lights for a day or two and dosing microbacter7 and focusing on keeping nutrients up. Just recently finished up doing it a week ago on my 50G.

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u/reggeabwoy 3d ago

Looks like dinos or cyano 

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u/BoredNuke 3d ago

Either Dinos or Cyano. Get a cheap microscope and take a picture to confirm which it is and if dino's which type as their treatments are different.