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Kairus
04/04/2014, 11:07 PM
It's reddish black, stringy, grows quickly and seemingly on anything. Even around the base of my corals. I took a short video (]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhkhFqrWgvY)of it as well.

http://i.imgur.com/TZE8ecW.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhkhFqrWgvY
civics2k
04/05/2014, 02:27 AM
It's possibly Cyanobacteria or dinoflagellates. Both of those are a nuisance and you want to attack them very quickly before they reproduce out of hand.
Kairus
04/05/2014, 03:07 AM
It's possibly Cyanobacteria or dinoflagellates. Both of those are a nuisance and you want to attack them very quickly before they reproduce out of hand.

Hmm, I don't think it's dino, it's dark and typically single strands, no base. I am trying out chemi clean to see if I can get rid of the cyano.

My levels are rather low, 0 on API nitrate, 0 on Seachem Phosphate test. I dose vodka daily, and use lanthanum chloride occasionally (into a 5 micron sock). Obviously whatever this is, it's using up my phosphates giving me a reading of 0.