Dino verification.

[Mastiffking]

Hello everyone,
I need help to stop second guessing myself. I think I have identified the sludge in my tank as Ostreopsis Dino’s. Can anyone help me confirm? Screenshot of test results attached. Tank has been up 8 months.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Dan_P]

Hello everyone,
I need help to stop second guessing myself. I think I have identified the sludge in my tank as Ostreopsis Dino’s. Can anyone help me confirm? Screenshot of test results attached. Tank has been up 8 months.

Thank you in advance.

Great family portrait! :)

I am leaning towards Prorocentrum, but I think that I see two distinct sizes. Not sure what to make of that. @taricha? There are also diatoms and cyanobacteria filaments

 

[taricha]

Agree with @Dan_P vast majority of the cells are prorocentrum.

 

[Mastiffking]

@Dan_P @taricha Thank you. Still a problem. Any suggestions on eradication? I have carbon reactor running to reduce toxin. Have a UV to install and have manually removed some with the surrounding sand. Is it still ok to use phytoplankton? Or will that feed them more? I’m also going to start testing silicates and dosing to up my he diatoms.

 

[Mastiffking]

@Dan_P @taricha Thank you. Still a problem. Any suggestions on eradication? I have carbon reactor running to reduce toxin. Have a UV to install and have manually removed some with the surrounding sand. Is it still ok to use phytoplankton? Or will that feed them more? I’m also going to start testing silicates and dosing to up my he diatoms

 

[Reef.]

@Dan_P @taricha Thank you. Still a problem. Any suggestions on eradication? I have carbon reactor running to reduce toxin. Have a UV to install and have manually removed some with the surrounding sand. Is it still ok to use phytoplankton? Or will that feed them more? I’m also going to start testing silicates and dosing to up my he diatoms

No reason for the microscope as you are going to be doing the treatment that covers them all anyway.

Uv, phyto, removal, removal also includes scrubbing the rock out of the tank if possible, and dosing silicates.

 

[Mastiffking]

No reason for the microscope as you are going to be doing the treatment that covers them all anyway.

Uv, phyto, removal, removal also includes scrubbing the rock out of the tank if possible, and dosing silicates.

Thank you. UV is running, and I have filter floss in the heavy areas and I rinse them out in the sink daily. Will restart my phytoplankton dosing and I just ordered the silicates. Hopefully all of this gets rid of it. I understand it can’t be completely removed, just controlled.

 

[Reef.]

Removal is really important, vacuuming sand etc will look like a loosing battle but you need to do these things at least daily if not more and in a few days you will start to see an improvement, dont ease up for a good week or two after you think you have cleared them.

Don’t be frightened of dosing silicates, depending on the strength you buy you may need to dose quite a bit to see it working, you will probably notice an improvement in your corals too, for some reason in this hobby we have given silicates a bad rap, when it is actually good for your tank.

Think I dosed for maybe two weeks but i used reef silicate which was very weak, then vacuumed the sand but didn’t do a big water change after as I wanted the silicate to carry on working.

 

[Dan_P]

@Dan_P @taricha Thank you. Still a problem. Any suggestions on eradication? I have carbon reactor running to reduce toxin. Have a UV to install and have manually removed some with the surrounding sand. Is it still ok to use phytoplankton? Or will that feed them more? I’m also going to start testing silicates and dosing to up my he diatoms.

Good luck! Your plan sounds reasonable.