dinos

So here is the background. I have a 40g that I setup and was cycled in January. Brought 3 fish from my old setup 2 clowns and Banggai cardinal (no LR or media fresh start). One of the clowns died due to stress I think (both clown were 12 years old). I let the tank stabilize about 2 months until...

Hello all, I’ve been battling with what thought are Dino’s for months. My nutrients, phos and Nitrates, where low so been adding Seachem phosphate and nitrate and have brought those levels up. Added copepods and ocean magik live phyto and bacteria. This just won’t go away even with manual...

Hi All, Excited to get my hands on my new 3D UV sweeper from 3D reefing. Won't be going too technical here as I believe there have been plenty of threads seeing how it works etc. This will be just so that I can input the steps I have taken for others to follow along, but also open for any...

Ive got a brown/green/red slime on my sandbed. Its only on the sandbed, the rocks are completely clear of it. It does seem to disappear or get a lot less visible when the lights go out at night. It clumps together on the sandbed like a mat. It doesnt blow off like dust. I didnt used to clean...

So I have a 20 gal aquarium that has been running for almost a year, and since July Dino’s have appeared, first i thought it was cyano but now with some tests I know it’s Dino’s, I have been running a UV light. I first try to remove it from the normal ways, increase nitrates, blackouts etc...

So I've been fighting sandbed Dinos (large cell amphidinium) for over 2 years now, and have tried just about every method in the book with little to no success. I think I came up with a solution that should work in theory though, but I wanted to make this post to run it past any experts and see...

I had a dino outbreak about 5 weeks ago. In the 2 months before the outbreak, I observed PO4 trending down steadily. It had been stable in the 0.08 range through summer and early fall, then from Sep.4 to 25 it dropped from 0.06 to 0.00 (6 different tests, each time lower) and went into emergecny...

My re-start reef is about 4 months old and already have dinos. My phosphate is at 0.08 and my nitrate at 0.0 which explains it, i am feeding very heavily which has caused a hair algea bloom but nitrate wont go up, just dose neo nitro? turn off skimmer? Thanks guys

The past week I noticed my corals opening less and less. The past 3 days the zoanthids are getting longer and growing towards the light. When my feather duster worm is extended, the ends are curled up a bit. Tested the water and thought my kh was too low, turns out the test kit was very old and...

I completed the final day (day 7) of the Elegant Corals Dino Method this morning, and although I still have Dinos, I think it's because I wasn't monitoring NO3 and PO4 during the treatment, so I want to do it again, but monitor (and dose) NO3 and PO4 daily. Prior to the treatment I had got my...

Hey guys I currently have a nutrient issue with my tank i’m having trouble solving. My nitrates slowly bottom out to 0 while my phosphates raise. This is forcing me to dose nitrates which I don't want to do if possible. Due to the imbalance I even got dinos which I have since resolved. Current...

On a previous post i mentioned battling Dinos, raised nutrients, hired a professional reef maintenance company but the tank is looking worst and worst! Corals are dying and not happy! I Also have a big outbreak of Aiptasia I want to nuke the tank and start over! Of course saving the fish...

Hello Everyone i got a bad case of dinos due to my nutrients bottoming out. I Did 3 day blackout while started to dose Neo Nitro and Neo Phos. I have been dosing 0.5ml of each everyday for over a week. Currently my Nitrates are 9.0 and Phos is 0.29 Dinos came back and some sludge looking thing...

Just got my microscope in today to help diagnose what is in my tank. Looks like dinos. Sorry for the shaky video. Any tips on how to get rid of it?

Can someone tell me if these are dinos or cyano or something else?

So I have this 20 gallon tank for about tree months and has been good for the two first months, but in the last month Dinos start to appear, first just little amounts and now a considerable amount, they are in the rock, sand and some pieces in corals, ( these I try to take them out blowing them...

So I got a microscope because I have been dealing with what seems to be Dino’s on my sand bed. In the video there are these things racing around SUPER fast. Are those dino? If so. What kind?

Alright boys let’s play a guessing game. I have some pictures and I’m wonder what you all think. I have a microscope coming tomorrow to confirm. DINOS? DIATOMS!?

Hi everyone! Can anyone help me ID the dinos in this video? Happy to try taking more if this doesn’t work, but it’s a good sample of what I see in the microscope. Thanks!

I’m dealing with some Dino in my tank, and read @ScottB ’s Treatment Guide - https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/a-dinoflagellate-treatment-guide.841/ However, the guide does not say how to dose PO4. In my confusion I bought Red Sea NO3-PO4-X, but after further research it appears that lowers nitrate...

I’m not too sure what this is but it’s hard to get rid of. My initial thought was that it’s cyano but after 2 doses of chemiclean it seems to just be getting worse. My nitrates are .02-.05 and phosphates are at .006-.008. If anyone knows what this is and how I could keep it at bay I would...

WE GOT THE REEF! Do to repeated requests we have added our proprietary blend of 3 unique dinoflagellates eating copepods to our product offerings. The use of these targeted copepods, combined with our Coral Delight Phyto Buffet (richly infused with rich diatom phytoplankton plus gold and red...

WE GOT THE REEF! Do to repeated requests we have added our proprietary blend of 3 unique dinoflagellates eating copepods to our product offerings. The use of these targeted copepods, combined with our Coral Delight Phyto Buffet (richly infused with rich diatom phytoplankton plus gold and red...

Hey all. I've been researching diatoms and Dinos all the last two days. Here's where I'm at: I neglected my tank for a few months And had a bloom of what I thought was cyano. I wiped it out with chemiclean and an air stone in 3 days. Well a month later it's back, so I'm not sure it's cyano, as...

We are battling Prorocentrum in our tank and have been losing the fight for about a month now. Parameters were super low (nitrates nearly zero) so we upped feeding and continued to monitor. Water parameters are now in a good range, nitrates around 20, phosphates around 0.05. We tried increasing...