dino

  1. W

    What kind of Dinos are these?

    I got back into the hobby about 1.5 years ago. I've been battling Dinos for almost 6 months. When they first appeared I ended up dosing Dino x which got rid of them after about 12 doses (every other day). It wiped out all my corals in the process. After a few weeks I started getting loads of...
  2. L

    Dino?

    Is this Dino? I’ve had my tank up in running for about 2 months now. Just had a die off of diatoms I believe and now this long stringy algae has appeared. Can someone confirm it’s dino or if it’s something else?
  3. K

    Need help id and treatment plan.

    This is my first saltwater tank and has been set up for 3 months now. It is a red sea 625xxl This problem started out looking like dino or diatoms. More brown in color with tentacle like balls of gas. I put an mp40 in the tank and the balls of air went away but the color turned more red and...
  4. S

    thinking about giving up...

    So i am currently in the middle of my second battle with dinos and things have really taken a turn for the worst. I have stable levels of nitrates and phosphates so i know nutrients aren’t an issue. I tried a UV sterilizer with no success. I had read articles on reef builders and seen videos...
  5. S

    Diamond Goby to help with dinos?

    So I am experiencing a bit of a dino problem on my sand bed. I have experienced dinos before but this time they are not nearly as bad as they were, previously they took over all the rocks, sand and basically the whole tank. Now they are back but only in patches on the sand bed. I have had...
  6. Nikko

    Diatoms?

    Hello kind and helpful reefers! I have what hopefully is an easy question. Took a sample of my substrate as I have been having issues with a brown coating on my aquarium that forms once lights go on and go away when they go off. This has been going on for over a month. I don't believe it's...
  7. A Dinoflagellate Treatment Guide

    A Dinoflagellate Treatment Guide

    As the title suggests, this is intended as a short guide on what to do when you suspect dinoflagellates are trying to overtake your system. It is an attempt to boil down the protocols discussed across 11,000 posts in this "Are you Tired" thread along with thousands of other dino threads. I did...
  8. Z

    How to (at least temporarily) get dino(amphidinium) off frags/coral?

    So I've got dino, I was out of the country for 4 months unexpectedly and had to ask my brother to take care of the tank, of course I couldn't ask for all the care a reef tank needs, which led to me getting home and finding both dino and cyano. I've already done a lot of reading on dino, I'm...
  9. D

    Help with formulated plan to beat dinos.

    so I’m currently battling dinos and this is my plan of action using Brightwell Aquatic's NeoPhos and NeoNitro. both nitrate and phosphate have bottomed out and are at 0ppm. tank lights have been off for 2 days and dinos have died down very slightly. temp has been raised to 79 degrees also. can a...
  10. S

    Dinos?

    Are these are diatoms or dinos ? it is a new tank however I used some rock from my old tank and most is dry rock. here’s the photos , I also used the towel method. I have a microscope coming tomorrow.
  11. V

    Dino’s and should I be worried?

    Hi again. So my tank is around 4 months old now and been going through all the uglies. I am happy taking things slow and really not bothered about the uglies all that much. It recently went through a massive GHA bloom which I mostly left to its thing while manually removing some and it’s now...
  12. GP0801

    Brown algae and bubbles suddenly all over my tank

    I'm pretty new to the aquarium thing but everything seemed to be going so well the past few months and all of a sudden today the tank and equipment is covered in this brown stuff and bubbles. There were even patches of sand flying around because the bubbles were carrying them through the water...
  13. wonderbassist

    Cyano/Dino outbreak

    I’ve got some microscope pictures! I have a Cyanobacteria outbreak, it’s starting to grow over some corals. I used chemiclean 2 weeks ago, did the 20% water change after and have continued with my weekly 10% maintenance changes. The cyano came back way worse, I’ve also been dosing vibrant. I see...
  14. R

    Diatom? Dino?

    Hi my tank is ~3 wks old, and recently seeing growth of these brown stuff. Small patches has showed up a few days after i had turned on the light (which is about a week ago) and i think its growing a lot faster these 2 days. I would like to think its diatoms cuz my params are Salinity: 1.025...
  15. Z

    Leaving on a night light? During a intentional tank blackout.

    TL:DR can/should I leave a very low wattage "night light" on during a blackout to reduce the likelihood of my fish from accidentally swimming into an anemone? So I have, something (algae/Dinos/whatever*) that I am planning on doing a 3 day blackout for. Last time I did a blackout I lost a...
  16. F

    Dinos quick question ❓

    I am battling dinos currently and just wanted to ask. Is my answer as simple as I think? I am thinking all I have to do is dose phosphate to get rid of them. My current parameters are: Temp 74-75 Salt 1.025 Amonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrate 10 Phos 0 Cal 400 Mag 1340 Alk 8.0
  17. M

    Best bottle bacteria for Dino’s

    So I’ve been dealing with Dino’s for a while and I want to know what’s the best bottled bacteria to use while battling Dino’s. I used microbacter7 but don’t really know how effective it is.
  18. O

    Name that Algae!

    We’ll here we are again with another episode of, “Name that Algae”! I apologize ahead of time for the terrible picture quality, but it’s the best I can do. It’s almost like a hair algae it’s dark green and doesn’t come off easily. This is also coupled with red slime. Best guess I have is Dinos...
  19. diamondreef

    Dino? Best way to treat?

    Just noticed these small silver balls and a reddish brown film .. more on the back of my rock. How do I stop this from spreading!?
  20. DJTJ

    Are these Dinos?

    Hey everyone, my tank has been cycling for around two months now and I have noticed that the water has become super cloudy over the past week. There are these little brown nubs that form a web over the sand. Are they Dinos? I had three fish ready from my 30 day quarantine and was wanting to put...
  21. thatone08

    No diggity, no doubt, it’s dinos!

    Hi, 2 month old tank, 20 gallon Red Sea Max nano. Started with dry Carib sea life rock, and fritz turbo start to cycle. About a month completely dark, to avoid a really bad ugly stage(or so I thought). Fast forward fish, a handful of corals, lights on. 2 weeks later, what looks to be diatoms...
  22. IrishReefer234

    Adding Fish/coral with active Dino outbreak

    Hi all, just a post as I can’t find much on it online. Is it possible to add new fish or corals to a tank that has a Dino outbreak? just curious thanks
  23. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    Fallow, What to feed tank?

    I current have 1 CBS and 10 cerith Snails in my display that I have begun to fallow. I have some Coraline algae in there too. I'd like to eradicate my spionid worms aswell, but in order to do that I'd need to have no food come to the bottom. Another thing is if I have no nitrates...won't...
  24. A

    Questions about prorocentrum

    Hi everyone, I've posted multiple threads of my battle with prorocentrum dinoflagellates, and I believe I am in the later stages of the outbreak (knock on wood). Anyways I did end up removing the sand, and I don't regret it because I like the way bare bottoms look. Now I know that prorocentrum...
  25. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    How toxic are my Dino's to my fish?

    I have small cell amphidinium dinoflagellates in my tank. Was wondering what affect the Dino's have on my fish as I am currently not running carbon. My tang seems to be breathing a little bit faster than normal. Could it be from the Dino's toxins?
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