Dinoflagellates

[Damian Harris]

Need some advice on removing Dino what should I do. I have been treating it as cyano due to LFS miss identifying. Do I go at it manually or go to chemicals. It is a mixed reef with corals and fish.

 

[Damian Harris]

Here is a photo

 

[Gareth elliott]

Before you decide a method need to find what is causing the dinos and species id will help as some species uv can help a lot others not so much.

What is you no3 and po4?

 

[Damian Harris]

Not currently at home got the photo from my wife at home

 

[jsvand5]

I tried Dino-x and it really did seem to work well for me. Mine was a plague that looked much worse than yours and it’s now about 95% gone. I only bought enough to do 5 treatments instead of the ten that the bottle recommends. I’m hoping the last little bit clears up on its own so I don’t have to order more. Anyway, might be worth a shot since it’s only around $25. I’d didn’t negatively effect any parameters as far as I can tell.

 

[O'l Salty]

UV filter killed mine in 3 days. Looked just like yours. Mine were Ostreopsis. You'll want to start running carbon right now as they can be poisonous.

The little gold looking pills are dinos.

 

[Matyas]

What are your tank parameters?
Nitrate, phosphate?

 

[Candace Summers]

UV filter killed mine in 3 days. Looked just like yours. Mine were Ostreopsis. You'll want to start running carbon right now as they can be poisonous.

The little gold looking pills are dinos.

This is a lot like what I saw under my microscope when trying to identify what I was dealing with. Pretty sure it’s Dino’s as well.

How did you film your view? I tried to take a pic with my DSLR but it came out pretty crappy.

 

[Teemingtank]

Did you ever conquer your Dino’s? I’ve been battling them for months... after I treated this god awful, black cyano with Chemiclean they took over. Literally made my entire house stink too. Did daily water changes, swapped out gfo, carbon, purigen. Ran 2 9w UV sterilizers (not sure if they’re stage one sterilizers, which I believe are the only ones worth using) 24hrs on 24hrs off. At first they were just unsightly but then my nems started acting weird and not inflating. Starved the tank for 5 days, 3 of which there was no light, and that bout kicked it. Nems returned to their normal, inflated, happy selves, fish were never really effected...Went a week with a strand or two free floating in the display, but as of this morning it’s full bore again!

 

[Teemingtank]

UV filter killed mine in 3 days. Looked just like yours. Mine were Ostreopsis. You'll want to start running carbon right now as they can be poisonous.

The little gold looking pills are dinos.

This makes me want to go buy a microscope! I know each Dino strain is unique, but what UV sterilizer do you run?

 

[Damian Harris]

Did you ever conquer your Dino’s? I’ve been battling them for months... after I treated this god awful, black cyano with Chemiclean they took over. Literally made my entire house stink too. Did daily water changes, swapped out gfo, carbon, purigen. Ran 2 9w UV sterilizers (not sure if they’re stage one sterilizers, which I believe are the only ones worth using) 24hrs on 24hrs off. At first they were just unsightly but then my nems started acting weird and not inflating. Starved the tank for 5 days, 3 of which there was no light, and that bout kicked it. Nems returned to their normal, inflated, happy selves, fish were never really effected...Went a week with a strand or two free floating in the display, but as of this morning it’s full bore again!

Yes I did a 3 day black out and did a chemiclean to rid of them! I am sorry to hear your problem wasn't so simple

 

[Teemingtank]

Yes I did a 3 day black out and did a chemiclean to rid of them! I am sorry to hear your problem wasn't so simple

I’m glad to hear that! I’m giving a blackout another shot, and I have some Chemiclean leftover. Hopefully I get the same results as you. Good luck with your tank!