Dinoish slime game plan

[Tunafish]

I have an approximately 70-gallon tank that is 2 years old with only four medium fish. I always had double zero nutrients (using Hanna checkers), but I didn't have any issues except pale corals. I was not doing any water changes, but recently, I have done 10% water changes per week for 3 weeks. My guess is that these water changes have gotten the undetectable nutrients lower, and the bacterial balance in the tank has been disturbed. Thus causing what appears to me as dinos, although I am not sure and would consider other nuisance stuff if you think it is something different. It appears to be not disturbed by high flow and even avoids very low-flow areas. I also have some green hair algae growing up in the highest light part of the tank with this nuisance but I think gha is because of the bacterial imbalance.

My game plan is to first shut the protein skimmer off to help increase the nutrients. I also tried dosing some nitrates and increased my feeding. After doing a nitrate test for 2 days, I found that the tank consumes almost 1ppm of nitrate per day. I hooked up a doser with potassium nitrate and got it, dosing one ppm per day. I also added some expired aquaforest granular probiotic bacteria product that I had lying into to the potassium nitrate for the possibility of it helping with bacterial balance. It has been 3 days since I implemented these changes. The issue seems to remain the same, but I wasn't expecting to solve that kind of stuff in 3 days anyway. I am looking for recommendations or alterations that I can implement to my game plan to beat this nuisance I am also highly considering adding more fish since it is the most natural way.



Thanks.

 

[Reefing Madness]

 

[bubbgee]

Hard to gauge without knowing what kind of dinos you have. That's why the first recommendation is to use a microscope to identify and there's a bunch of steps that follow to correct. Like LCA vs Osteo would be different to handle. And explains why UV is more effective for certain strains.