Dinos, need help. Please

[Fishfinder]

I know this has been talked about over and over. But I’m at a loss. I’ll try to keep it short… ask me anything I missed. I can give any details. First I’ve had aquariums, not a novice, but can’t crack this one. It’s got me beat.

Bought a running setup about 4 months ago. It looked ok when I got it. I could tell he had some issues with it. Some algae here and there (maybe Dino’s). Set it up and about 2 months in Dino’s started showing. The reason I assume is my nutrients were 0.000. Did a blackout, got my nutrients up and they disappeared. 2 weeks later I did something really stupid and added pieces of new rock. The new rock got completely covered. I started dosing H2O2. After a week that didn’t help and it progressed to the glass. I did a blackout again. This time it helped but didn’t eliminate them. A week later they are back bad. Rocks, sand, glass.

I’m running a skimmer, rollermat, and UV. Nothing else. Tank has decent flow, lights are radions AB+, nutrients are good and stable.

Blackout didn’t work, H2O2 didn’t work, bacteria dosing didn’t help. I ordered some silica. If anyone has suggestions I am open to any help. Thank you

@mcarroll

@Miami Reef because you commented on my clam thread

 

[Fishfinder]

I don’t have a microscope. It’s Dino’s, if ID of the species is going to make a difference I will get one.

 

[ShanePike]

Best resource I've found by far:

Pdf file about dinoflagellates

Here is an pdf file about fighting dino's it helped me alot and im not sure if this already exists in this forum so i love to share it with u all

www.reef2reef.com

 

[Fishfinder]

Thank you for that, I’ll read it