Corals struggling with dino outbreak

[tchat]

Sadly I confirmed dinoflagellate outbreak in my 75 gal with microscopy. Since this started my frogspawn has been looking sickly (deflated and one of the heads retracting).

I’m correcting nutrients, dosing silicate and diatom phyto, added pods, and added some biomedia from an established system… it’s one of them that doesn’t respond well to UV.

I have another 3 gal pico tank I could move the frogspawn to but I would want to dip it in some sort of peroxide to avoid adding a ton of dinos to the 3 gal. Given that it’s already stressed I’m afraid that could kill it but I’m afraid of doing nothing as well..

Would you favor leaving it where it’s at and hoping that nutrient correction will improve its health? Or take more aggressive action by dipping and transferring to a new tank? Or maybe something else like a lugols or KFC dip?

This sucks

 

[Channas]

My guess here why it’s not looking so well is because you do too much at the same time, my advice is to go step by step, first nutrient management. Watch if it gets better over a week or so with the nutrients, get those stable and the outbreak should go away by itself over time also if you can, add fresh live rock from the ocean instead. Fresh live rock in my opinion is by far much better than any bottled bacteria. This is how i beat my dino outbreak , atleast i think so because this was the only thing i did during my outbreak to battle it. It was gone within a month and havent returned for years now.

By nutrients i mean nitrates and phosphates, the silicates will get bottomed out while the outbreak progress most likley. Once they do the issue will go away along with it and thats where the new fresh live rock plays the part by populating the vacuum the dinos leave with wanted bacteria.

This is my personal opinion and what has worked for me, use it how you want

When it comes to the coral, i would just turkey blast it gently once or twice a day to help remove the build up, you are right in your thought process but i recommend to leave it inside still and keep a close eye on it just to not stress it out by a move, frogspawns are usually resilient unless collected from the wild.

 

[slingfox]

If you have a stable tank to transfer the hammer into that is probably a low risk option. I personally wouldn’t worry too much about dipping the hammer since Dino’s are pretty much in every tank. Dino’s only become an issue if there is an imbalance which allows the Dino’s to take over. Peroxide is used by some to treat Dino’s and it can also be used as a coral dip. If the dip is gentle then that is also likely low risk to the hammer.