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Yeah these have a more almond shape to them and what was in the sand (amphidinium) was more oval shaped. New stuff is spreading really fast as well, rock is totally covered today. I tried to syphon it out with a filter sock but the dinos just go right through it, need smaller micron socks. Its also in my sump now too so its moving into the water colum for sure. Im no expert, starting to become one though, but to me it looks like ostreopsis is what I am dealing with now. Placing an order with BRS for filter socks tonight, waiting on my UV but I should have gotten a higher watt unit I think. Ordered a 9w in tank UV so hopefully it will help at least. The smell is really bad as well right now, way worst then amphidinium. What I dont get is how dinos bloomed again. I have green hair algae growth, green and some brown film algae, corlline growth, macro algae is doing good in the fuge, dosing the crap out of bacteria, adding small pieces of healthy live rock, feeding heavy, feeding the tank live phytoplankton, no Reef Roids for months, no3 is over 10ppm and po4 is over 0.15ppm. Was it from dosing Bionic alk and doing a 10g water change, added trace elements?
correct.This is the dino that was in the sand, pretty sure it was amphidinium.
correct again. ostreopsis.DesertReefT4r said:This is whats in the tank now, acts different forming string snot which is different than before when dinos only stayed on the sand. Still amphidinium or is this ostreopsis?
Can't tell much from the first pic, but the second pic does look like diatoms. I think they usually have that angular shape.
first pic probably is dinos, and you are correct that the wedges are diatoms.I get it but I still want to identify which type of dinos I'm dealing with assuming it is dino. Also, is the other pic of wedges shaped algae a diatom?
Agreed, I am on month two of my second tank and it's nasty as well. Thin hair algae, diatoms, cyano, film algae, all ugly and all part of it. The most I am doing about it is blowing some of the crap off the rocks and stirring the sand a bit.first pic probably is dinos, and you are correct that the wedges are diatoms.
The advice to not care too much early in a tank - just call it the uglies and let it go is a good philosophy. Communities shift a lot in the first few months of a tank.
I'm not entirely convinced. O. Ovata has a kind of point at one end of the cell. And in my experience, they are only motile in darkness. I've only maybe seen them twitch when exposed to light. Maybe it'd just the lighting of the microscope but I don't see the pointy side. It may be some other species of ostreopsis, or a different genus entirely. Definitely dinos though. With ostreopsis, luckily they do enter the water column in darkness so UV is effective. Just need to make sure the flow rate through the UV is as slow as you can manage to make sure there is enough exposure to sufficiently damage them.Can I please please please get some help.
is this ostreopsis?
I am already running aaqua uv 57w on my 280g system.
dosing h2o2.
dosing bacteria as well.
madding pods today too.
got the lighting to just blue leds for 6 hours at 40 percent.
Got the Nitrates now between 5-10.
PO4 is 1.0
What else can I do?
I did the peroxide for a while and I felt like it helped in my situation, which was ovata. They are a tough one to crack but it can be done. Is your UV relatively new? The bulbs don't last as long as I would like. However if what you have is a benthic species, and they don't enter the water column, the UV won't do any good. I also battled amphidinium, and I hooked my UV up to a slow pump and a small gravel vacuum and sucked it up into that, and had the effluent go into a filter sock. That actually did work pretty well along with blackouts.Thanks eraserhead - i have the UV going really slow -
but i just feel like its going to take a long while before that does anything...
Is H2O2 making it any better? should i even continue?
Thank you for confirming. So should I be blowing it off the rock and coral to get the dino into the water colum or am I just making it spread? I added the 9w UV sterilizer into the display today, hope that helps. I know I should have gotten a higher watt sterilizer for my size tank.correct.
correct again. ostreopsis.
Yes, this looks like ostreopsis to me.
Yes, this looks like ostreopsis to me.
Yeah looks like it, almond shaped. Brown snotty stringy patches all over the tank? I see what may be small cell amphidinium too.
Yeah looks like it, almond shaped. Brown snotty stringy patches all over the tank? I see what may be small cell amphidinium too.
Amphidinium does not go into the water at night and its much harder to deal with. UV will help a lot but its best to have the pump directly in the display so it pull water directly from the display and into the UV.Yeah, I had it bad in a different tank. This is in my 110 gallon and it’s not too terrible yet, but wanted to get ahead of it before I had a full-on outbreak. I don’t really care what it is, as long as it goes into the water column at night so I can zap the crud out of it with my 57 watt UV!
Amphidinium does not go into the water at night and its much harder to deal with. UV will help a lot but its best to have the pump directly in the display so it pull water directly from the display and into the UV.