AbjectMaelstroM
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Do you have a Pic of how you plumbed UV into your DT?
This is what I came up with, just going to hook it up to a jebao dct 2500 and hang it off the side of the tank.
Dinoflagellates – Are You Tired Of Battling Altogether?
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Do you have a Pic of how you plumbed UV into your DT?
This is what I came up with, just going to hook it up to a jebao dct 2500 and hang it off the side of the tank.
Flippers4pups
Fins up since 1993
@twilliard, what do you know about Ulva and dinoflagellates? I've got some coming for my refugium. Read that it may have a Allelopathy effect on them.
Flippers4pups
Fins up since 1993
Do you have a Pic of how you plumbed UV into your DT?
This is what I came up with, just going to hook it up to a jebao dct 2500 and halg it off the side of the tank.
I did something very similar. No picture of when it was attached to the DT. I mounted mine inside my canopy.
Edit: it's back down stairs mounted to my basement sump now.
twilliard
Tank pests..
I have never used another alga but will add that to the book. Understanding the half-life of released chemicals dives deep into chemistry. Sometimes I wish I had an all-in-one mass spectrometer.
Flippers4pups
Fins up since 1993
Effects of macroalgae Ulva pertusa (Chlorophyta) and Gracilaria lemaneiformis (Rhodophyta) on growth of four species of bloom-forming dinoflagellates
The effects of fresh thalli and culture medium filtrates from two species of marine macroalgae, Ulva pertusa Kjellm (Chlorophyta) and Gracilaria leman…
twilliard
Tank pests..
I see dinoflagellates are still a HUGE issue with reef tanks based on the number of posted threads. I am surprised there is no subsection for Dinos since they are not algae and still an unresolved issue as a pest.
Is @mcarroll still around? It will take me forever to go through her 476 pages to see where people have gotten with this problem.
Is @mcarroll still around? It will take me forever to go through her 476 pages to see where people have gotten with this problem.
Flippers4pups
Fins up since 1993
I agree. It needs its own sub forum. There is much more hobbyist that are having issues with dinos or think it's dinos on other sub forums such as the "reef discussion" for example. This thread is just the tip of the "iceberg"!
I suspect it's rampid throughout the hobby right now.
twilliard
Tank pests..
This was not going to be my starting point when I get the lab back together but I may bring this topic to the front of the list since I do not have many answers for a widely accepted solution.
I will go take a look at the other subforums as I build an idea of what will have a higher priority.
twilliard
Tank pests..
Those are algae. You can see the cell divisions which help to understand how they reproduce and can quickly become a problem.
Well after weeks of doing water changes and everything being fine they seem to be trying to come back a bit ( only on the sand though) my phosphates have started to drop fast again whicb worries me, back to heavy dosing phosphates daily again smh. Does reefroids make them get worse by any chance?
twilliard
Tank pests..
I am looking back to see if I have a name for them but it may take some time. I would be concerned only if the population gets out of control. They are a little harder to manage than the large cell algae due to the reproduction speed but overall still an algae.
twilliard
Tank pests..
from a chemical treatment standpoint, I do not currently have a method but was in the works when I had to put the processes on hold in 2016.
I would suspect using standard algae control would be a good starting point.
AbjectMaelstroM
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Morning update:
Sand was looking rough. Doesn't feel like UV is making a dent, but may be too early to tell. Continue to dose nutrients and have good amount of hair algea but it doesn't seem to be competing with the Dinos, at least at this time. Also added three jars of 5280 pods from algae barn and phytoplankton.
NO3 showing 5ppm, PO4 0.03... May need to up the dosage on phosphate.
Sand was looking rough. Doesn't feel like UV is making a dent, but may be too early to tell. Continue to dose nutrients and have good amount of hair algea but it doesn't seem to be competing with the Dinos, at least at this time. Also added three jars of 5280 pods from algae barn and phytoplankton.
NO3 showing 5ppm, PO4 0.03... May need to up the dosage on phosphate.
Your description exactly matches ostreopsis.
My tank has gotten to 90 f. It didnt kill my ostreopsis dinos but they werent moving in the microscope so maybe it did something. However my tank drops to 80f daily. I wonder if i should keep it at 82f forever? This pest is worse than velvet imo.
AbjectMaelstroM
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Along with the UV, raised temp to 81F. Still dosing PO4 and NO3, PO4 seems to drop daily and there's a good presence of what looks like GHA.
My friends are still there every morning though.
Considering how new my tank is and the minimal corals (I can move to coral QT) and livestock (move to a 40B)....Im considering a reboot as a viable alternative. Need to do some digging on what and how things need to be sterilized, as I'm assuming one should not reuse the rocks and sand...
My friends are still there every morning though.
Considering how new my tank is and the minimal corals (I can move to coral QT) and livestock (move to a 40B)....Im considering a reboot as a viable alternative. Need to do some digging on what and how things need to be sterilized, as I'm assuming one should not reuse the rocks and sand...
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