Hello,
I'm looking for experienced reefers that have cases of Dinoflagellate getting expulsed out from the Gorgonian on a regular basis.
I have a Gorgonian Pterogorgia citrina (at least I think?) and on a regular basis it expulses a bunch on Dinoflagellate from its body, It's literally in front of me, I see it every day, and I can even see it naked eyes, although a microscope helped to identified the Ostreopsis genus.
I'm able to deal with Ostreopsis via different techniques, temperature is the easiest way But the thing is, I'm starting to get tired of dealing with this after so many months/years, the more it grows, the higher the frequency and amount of dino are increasing.
The problem is, I'm having trouble identifying what causes this reaction on regular basis, heavy water change? Flow not ideal anymore since it is growing? I use a heavy import-export maintenance to keep everything stable (Water changes every week or so).
I'm thinking to cut a big portion and see the reaction after but before I do this, I would like to know if anyone had similar experiences and had a feeling what is causing this.
I have tiny fragments elsewhere in the tank and they don't seem to reject dino has frequently like my "colony" is doing, which is why I'm thinking about wrong flow, but I could be wrong...
Thank you
I'm looking for experienced reefers that have cases of Dinoflagellate getting expulsed out from the Gorgonian on a regular basis.
I have a Gorgonian Pterogorgia citrina (at least I think?) and on a regular basis it expulses a bunch on Dinoflagellate from its body, It's literally in front of me, I see it every day, and I can even see it naked eyes, although a microscope helped to identified the Ostreopsis genus.
I'm able to deal with Ostreopsis via different techniques, temperature is the easiest way But the thing is, I'm starting to get tired of dealing with this after so many months/years, the more it grows, the higher the frequency and amount of dino are increasing.
The problem is, I'm having trouble identifying what causes this reaction on regular basis, heavy water change? Flow not ideal anymore since it is growing? I use a heavy import-export maintenance to keep everything stable (Water changes every week or so).
I'm thinking to cut a big portion and see the reaction after but before I do this, I would like to know if anyone had similar experiences and had a feeling what is causing this.
I have tiny fragments elsewhere in the tank and they don't seem to reject dino has frequently like my "colony" is doing, which is why I'm thinking about wrong flow, but I could be wrong...
Thank you