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Bookmark or Share- Nuisance Algae Identification and Removal Guide | Reef2ReefScientific Description: A variety of green filamentous algae are lumped together under Green Hair Algae, because identification requires a microscope. Manual Removal - yank it out. If it is growing from the sand sift it out with a net. Clean Up Crew- Blue Legs, bigger hermits, turbos, limpets, chitons
- Uronema / Red Band Disease - Hemdal | Reef2ReefUronema is an elongate oval ciliated motile protozoan up to 40 um in length, which can become an opportunistic pathogen in marine aquariums. Because it is so generic-looking, identification in the field is always provisional. Most professional aquarists actually mean “ Uronema -like” when they say “ Uronema ”.
- A Dinoflagellate Treatment Guide | Reef2ReefThe mucus could be reddish, brown, gold, or in between. They can take over rock, sand, glass, plastics, even a refugium. They can be confused with diatoms, cyanobacteria, bacterial film and chrysophytes to name a common few. Good news: you don't need a microscope to find out if the gunk is dinoflagellates. The coffee filter test:
- Dinos or cyano? | Reef2ReefOne way to tell is to turn off lights for an entire day and turn back on next morning. Cyano will literally lighten or dissipate whereas Dino will stick around. You can also blow loose with a turkey baster, and net it. As it falls apart, cyano will stick together whereas dino will fall apart in many pieces.
- Dino’s or cyano or what? | Reef2Reef - REEF2REEF Saltwater and Reef ...0 0 0. You have a cyano problem. Red and green slime cyano I️t looks like. They often have air bubbles attached to it. I️ would use chemiclean and make sure to fix your phosphates and nitrates, you may have a buildup somewhere. For the immediate time being do a water change and try to siphon and scrub most of I️t off.
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