Dino or diatoms?

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If gone when lights out and back when lights on, likely Dinos.
If you vacumn and it’s back next morning….likely Dinos.

I wiped mine out in 6 days with Dino-X.

yes to all of that but my nitrates have never been zero and my PO4 has been as low as .02 for a few days but never registered zero on my Hanna checker, normally around .04.
 

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Dino is very common when nutrients zero out, but can exist even with some nutrients in water.
 
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I don't know what it is still I have been using dino x for 3 weeks now. I vacuum every other day. It comes back 2 days after I vacuum the sand. The dinox is slowing it down. All my snails and star fish died. The nitrates were 0 and phosphate was 0 now its back up with aggressive feeding I haven't done any water changes for 4 weeks . My corals aren't doing very good either. I also tried black out for a 2 days it didn't help 2 days later it was all back. This all started when I used chemiclean to kill cyno.
 

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yes to all of that but my nitrates have never been zero and my PO4 has been as low as .02 for a few days but never registered zero on my Hanna checker, normally around .04.
I got them with 0.03ppm phosphate likely because the checker has flux, so my 0.03ppm turned out to be 0.00ppm by ICP.
Now I run 0.07-.1ppm to ensure there actually is “some” phosphate in the water.
My Dinos were of the golden type and returned to the sand starting a day light.
I use Brightwell Neophos and NeoNitro to bump my nutrients, faster and easily scalable.
 

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I got them with 0.03ppm phosphate likely because the checker has flux, so my 0.03ppm turned out to be 0.00ppm by ICP.
Now I run 0.07-.1ppm to ensure there actually is “some” phosphate in the water.
My Dinos were of the golden type and returned to the sand starting a day light.
I use Brightwell Neophos and NeoNitro to bump my nutrients, faster and easily scalable.

well I can’t believe it but whatever it was has literally more than 95% gone overnight, had them for maybe 2 months or more.
I had planned on removing my Siporax as many say it’s not needed and I needed the space, wasn’t removing the Siporax thinking it was causing the diatoms/dinos, I did a water change this really set off a bloom, I turkey based them away after removing the Siporax, normally they would come back within minutes, this time I could see they weren’t reforming, today only the very lightest covering in a couple of areas.

So I guess it was diatoms being caused by the Siporax? but surely the silicate would still be high in the tank water, not sure how they cleared that fast?
 

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