I have a ton of copepods on my sand. They haven't helped control the spread of Dinos for me. I'd focus on other methods personally.--> Got some Copepods to help biodiversity
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I have a ton of copepods on my sand. They haven't helped control the spread of Dinos for me. I'd focus on other methods personally.--> Got some Copepods to help biodiversity
Feeding heavier doesn't always help rising po4.
The easiest and most controlable way is to dose po4.
Keeping your po4 at at least 0.03 and nitrates at 10 and it's bye bye dino's.
Same experience, I already had many before introducing this ones, but guess it can't hurt and helps the biodiversityI have a ton of copepods on my sand. They haven't helped control the spread of Dinos for me. I'd focus on other methods personally.
yes. coolia is correct.
Hi everyone, Recently noticed Dinos starting growing , believe this is the strain I'm fighting , although I can't confirm it with a microscope.
I will post here what I already done / been doing , and will update on my fight with dinos , might end up helping someone in the future if I beat them.
So , I was reading 1 ppm No3 and 0.00 Po4 at the start of my dino appearance . This was something I noticed Around 25/12/2021 , but I only started taking action 5 days ago.
Actions I took:
--> Feed heavier , several times a day
--> Started feeding phytoplankton daily
--> Got some Copepods to help biodiversity
--> Started dosing daily Bacto Blend by FM and Waste-Away by Dr tim.
--> Took out my filter sock , hoping to help raise nutrients.
--> Stopped scraping my glass, letting algae grow on it
My plan is to kill it with biodiversity and competing organisms, will see if it works, as of now , I see no regression on the dinos.
Good luck everyone!
Difficult to confirm at that level of magnification.I've been reading through this thread religiously because I thought I had amphidinium but it's all over my rocks, glass, and sand bed. Could this be small cell amphidinium? They move pretty quickly in the sample and they have the little beak to the side.
Photo 1 is from the glass
Photos 2-4 are from the sand
Photo 5 is from the rock.
Thanks so much for your help!
Around 2.0 ppm or below.What number am I shooting for on the Hanna tester.
Hard to confirm at that level of magnification. Pressed to speculate, I would say I see both large cell and small cell amphidinium. Were the small ones racing around real fast? Were the large ones swimming in a Roomba pattern?I am battling cyano right now and few spots looked snotty so I go paranoid and took a couple slides. Any ideas how to proceed with both? It took a lot of looking to spot the few cells each in different samples so it doesn’t seem like I have a lot
Yeah I’m not too concerned with cyano as I k ow how to treat that but the Dinos with cyano is what I am thinking about. Hoping the cyano could outcompete the Dinos ? I know the magnification isn’t the best but I had to use a lesser magnification to actually spot them. I found maybe one per slide and they were very active swimmers.Hard to confirm at that level of magnification. Pressed to speculate, I would say I see both large cell and small cell amphidinium. Were the small ones racing around real fast? Were the large ones swimming in a Roomba pattern?
Dosing Chemiclean (or other erythromycin products) would accomplish two things:
a) remove the cyano
b) allow the dinos to take over almost guaranteed
I have no sure fire remedies for persistent cyano. Mine are typically a transitory effect of bouncing or uncoordinated nutrient levels, so I just keep up with manual removal and stabilized nutrients. It can take a while, and yes, it is annoying. But cyano itself doesn't do real damage to corals as long as you manage (remove) it regularly.
Good attitude regarding cyano. People get into trouble trying kill it all the time. It is extremely common for cyano and dinos to coexist.Yeah I’m not too concerned with cyano as I k ow how to treat that but the Dinos with cyano is what I am thinking about. Hoping the cyano could outcompete the Dinos ? I know the magnification isn’t the best but I had to use a lesser magnification to actually spot them. I found maybe one per slide and they were very active swimmers.
1-4 are all SCA. #5 is also most likely all SCA but can't completely exclude something else.I've been reading through this thread religiously because I thought I had amphidinium but it's all over my rocks, glass, and sand bed. Could this be small cell amphidinium? They move pretty quickly in the sample and they have the little beak to the side.
Photo 1 is from the glass
Photos 2-4 are from the sand
Photo 5 is from the rock.
Thanks so much for your help!
I need to seek advice. I bought the HANNA silica tester and my blank always reads L.Lo. Has anyone had this problem? What am I doing wrong?