I don't see rinsing your food as being the fix for this. If you are feeding coral, you could cut back on that. Or add a fish or two to see if you can get your nitrates up. The fuge is ment to keep nutrients in check, but if nutruents are going too low, I don't see the reason to run a fuge. Unless you have mandarins or dragonets and need the pod population.
I could definitely add a few more fish. I was thinking of adding a yellow tang and some kind of wrasse to help with eating pests. I also have plans of adding both a mandarin and dragonet. My tank is setup to run triton so the fuge is my main nutrient export just like water changes are other peoples. I’m thinking about cutting down the time the refugium is lit. I just don’t want to cut it back to far to the algae starts to die off.
Personally, i think it would fine to run the fuge, its just you'll have to pay extra attention to nutrients while in the processes of "eliminating" the dino presence.
Hello!
Would like to confirm ID on these as Ostreopsis? Thankfully the tank is not overrun (yet) but trying to put together an attack plan before it gets to that point. They mostly manifest on the glass, on my Flipper Cleaner, and in the sand as tiny hair like threads. No bubbles whatsoever.
Yes, my nutrients are super low as confirmed by ATI ICP analysis:
NO3: 0.01 (didn’t even think this was possible while feeding the tank daily)
PO4: 0.02
I have ordered sodium nitrate to start dosing, and also have a bottle of NeoPhos on hand in case phosphates start to crash.
I get film algae build up on the glass very quickly, but very little macro algae in the tank. No fuge, no skimmer, and haven’t done a WC in two weeks. The only filtration I have is GAC.
Appreciate y’all!
Yep. Ostreopsis.
Ozone can sometimes be too effective. I would hold off.
Its been discussed here before. Up at the search bar, type ozone and then make sure the 'This thread only' had been marked. That will search for that keyword within this thread.
You can try it but any new coral additions will risk more dinos. Really the concept is shifting nutrient consumption away from dinos. This is something relatively easy to do. We can spend $$$$ on all the neatest tech to help us but its a biological thing that doesnt cost that much. Create a shift to dinos or green algae and then go through the process of elimination.
Honestly, you are going to give yourself a headache thinking about this. If you want a show quality tank, try the KISS method, accept the ugly stages, and let nature do what it needs to do.
I've seen people win against amphidinium, so it difficult for me to believe you've done everything correctly.
