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ClayBishop

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Diatoms and green algae is going away and some purple stuff is showing up on glass


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I can see where it might look like coralline algae, but it looks more like diatoms and some cyano to me. Will it wipe off easily? Coralline is a hard plating calcerous algae, if it wipes off easily it's not coralline.
 
Ok I tried to wipe it off the green comes of with one swipe of the mag float but it takes four or 5 swipes for that to come off.
 
ClayBishop said:
Ok I tried to wipe it off the green comes of with one swipe of the mag float but it takes four or 5 swipes for that to come off.

Yep coralline algae. If it was cyano it would wipe off just as easily as the green stuff.
 
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