id please!?

so i thought it was cyanobacteria. for the past three weeks ive been reducing lighting, skipping a few days a week on the feedings and then even last week i resorted to a chemical approach! nothing worked

it is not flaky and sticky like typical cyano and it can be easily moved around to get the white sand from underneath. Im getting some florida cerths this weekend to see if they can turn it over enough to keep the stuff from growing. But if anyone had an ID on it or a suggestion to keep it away please share!



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diatoms maybe try increasing flow to that area

 

its at a place where flow is hard to get to without blowing sand everywhere... and i believe copepods feed off of diatoms and my pod population has been pretty large and steady for a few months prior to this "development"

 

i would mvoe a powerhead there for a little bit just to see if it does anything if so id leave it there till it clears up and then move it back then once the powerheads back just push the sand back