Dino ID, please?

[lelandmarine]

I agree...this past week I've spent many hours researching for my small outbreak. I did not expect to learn that there are more than just one type of common dino. And that the current thought is to approach each with different methods (especially those dinos that escape into the water column where UV/filtering would work vs those that escape into the sand bed where those methods are not as appropriate).

One thing I did learn to try, up your nitrates (to 5-10 ppm) and phosphates (to .05 - .1ppm) to help other blooms to take over, even a new method trying to dose silicates to encourage a diatom bloom (easier to manage diatoms than dinos as they say).

sp. ostreopsis
sp. amphidinium
sp. prorocentrum
sp. coolia (wish this was coolio tankster's paradise)

This post was the most helpful. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/dinoflagellate-identification-guide.671466/

Nice summary, good luck\\