Cyano? or Diatoms? or neither?

So ive noticed the last couple of days after the lights come on theres a bloom of some sort And after the lights goes off it goes away pretty quick what is it? Ph 8.2-8.4 Ammonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates 5 Salt 1.024 Temp 79

 

i would say cyano

 

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Does appear to be the start of a cyano outbreak... what is your phosphate level?

 

Ideas to get rid of it?

 

What worked for me is to turn off the lights for three to four days done.....

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how old is your tank, lights, and how much are you feeding?all the others params look good

also how much flow in that area do you have(like is it a dead spot)

 

You can remove it through a water changes, change direction of power heads, blackout period like ezz1er requested, your call.

 

You can try and siphon out what you can to remove the algae in the short term and adding more flow via powerheads as suggested should help too. Cyano problems are usually caused by aquarium water with excess nutrients like phosphate, nitrates etc. In the long term you may have to examine how you care for your tank. There are some commercial dry foods also contain excess nutrients and other undesirable things like nitrates, phosphates etc so I strain/rinse my fresh/frozen foods before feeding my tank. You may want to consider feeding your fish less often. Also using RO/DI water and a high quality salt with little if any NO3, phosphates etc like Tropic Marin will really help too. Adding a phosphate remover, increasing flow in your tank, adjusting your tank's photo period or replacing old bulbs may help too.