think i have Dinoflagellates but not sure. help!

[thefickens]

So i started getting stringy brown stuff in my display tank. it wasn't bad tho. then today i looked in my fuge and it was EVERYWHERE with tons of bubbles on it. covering all my good algae and covering almost all the glass. i did a little research and think it may be Dinoflagellates but i'm not sure. can someone help out and identify this nasty stuff please.

[thefickens]

[DaveMorris]

That is cyano. You can vacuum it out and/or use Red Slime remover (AW sells it). That usually happens with too many nitrients in the water and not enough flow.

[thefickens]

There's plenty of flow. Maybe I overfeed then

[thefickens]

It's also not red tho. It's brown.

[DaveMorris]

The algea on the left side in the second picture definately looks like red slime. It can often have a more brown color appearance.

[thefickens]

The red stuff is red bubble algae. I put that in there. The brown stringy stuff is covering it. That's what I'm questioning

[thefickens]

I mean red grape macro algae

[thefickens]

Bump bump

[h20poloman]

I've never dealt with Dinos but IME, the best way to eradicate algae issues or cyanobacteria is to lower your phosphates --- reduce feeding, lessen light cycle, run carbon and/or a type of gfo/phosban, increase flow if needed, and increase water change cycles. Very common with algae to bloom like that over a day. If you are mixing your own salt and are using RO/DI water, make sure the TDS is reading zero on the water coming out of the RO/DI unit. I've wiped out nasty algae almost overnight just by hooking up a media reactor and running carbon through it. Do those steps and 20% weekly water changes and you should see some significant results. Keep us posted as this is a common issue and I think people need to see the before and after pics sometimes to believe it

[thefickens]

K. I'll try all that. Now I'm still a bit new. So what is a media reactor and, what does it do

[h20poloman]

K. I'll try all that. Now I'm still a bit new. So what is a media reactor and, what does it do

A media reactor is just a good way to store the actual media being used and ensure the most water is being filtered through it. I use the bulk reef deluxe reactors but there are plenty of brands out there and they come up for sale used on the boards quite often. If you have a small tank could also just buy chemi-pure or the nylon mesh bags and fill them yourself and place in your sump. If no sump, people usually have room in their hang on the back skimmers - etc. You do need to have a feed pump for media reactors...I believe I use MaxiJet 900's on mine, possibly even the 600.

here is the link for BRS - I'm definitely a fan of their products and media and would always recommend their product - they have a lot of good video's as well on their site - I switched from a generic carbon and moved to their ROX carbon - it's much stronger
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/reacto...reactors.html/

[thefickens]

I have a 60g display witha 55g sump. And I'm on a limited budget. I could probably just do the bags and put them at the first baffle so water has to pass thru them

[50 cube]

I have a reactor you can have if you want to make the drive, you'll need to get a pump for it though.

[thefickens]

Where r u located