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[coralkurd]

Hey guys. I believe I have dinos and I think it’s multiple kinds. The first one I think I have is large cell amphids. It’s on the sand.

The second thing I think I have is

 

[coralkurd]

Here are some photos for now

 

[coralkurd]

I just realized something went wrong when posting and my original post is all messed up. Sorry about that.

Anyways I believe I have multiple dinos here. I will get pictures of dinos under
Microscope soon. I do Believe I have large cell amph. And also Chrysophytes. What is best treatment?

My nutrient
Phosphate .1
Nitrate 10-15

I just bought some tigger pods and live phytofeast. How much do I add to rank? Will this help?

I also just ordered jebao 55 watt in sterlizer. Should be here Saturday. Never used one before, you guys have a recommendation on what pump to use for this? Also will this help in treating what I have? As you can see from pictures above, some of my sps are starting to have this stuff on their tips. Not dead flesh but this stuff seems to be on it. What do I do?

 

[coralkurd]

Here are some photos under microscope

 

[coralkurd]

Here is a picture with one of those chrysophyte thingys.

 

[coralkurd]

@taricha could you help?

 

[coralkurd]

Bump

 

[taricha]

I see some ostreopsis and maybe coolia dino cells. a mat of fine filaments that ought to be cyano.

 

[coralkurd]

I see some ostreopsis and maybe coolia dino cells. a mat of fine filaments that ought to be cyano.

So the cyano is what’s on the corals I am
Assuming? Some of the sps don’t look good. They starting to be covered with this stringy algae with a bubble on the end. Is that the Dino? What would be my best course of action? I am starting to panick lol

I tested nitrates and phosphates tonight.
Nitrate was 10-15 and phosphate was .14

I changed my gfo and carbon which I haven’t changed sense July and they were really gross. This might be the cause?
I also dosed some phyto tonight and added a bottle of tigger pods from reef nutrition.

I have in arriving Friday, should I hook up? Someone told me that it might hurt my tank even more sense it doesn’t look like the Dino is in the water column but on corals and sand.
Should I do a chemiclean dose?

 

[Lithoman]

Some of the sps don’t look good. They starting to be covered with this stringy algae with a bubble on the end.

Yes Dino.. get the UV Sterilizer running and follow what i did in my thread and you will beat this.. post back every few days with results you are seeing..

 

[coralkurd]

Yes Dino.. get the UV Sterilizer running and follow what i did in my thread and you will beat this.. post back every few days with results you are seeing..

Did you stop anything like gfo? My phosphates are getting really high. It’s at .15 now and changed out gfo last night. Should I stop gfo? Also in your thread I didn’t see if you changed your light schedule, did you change it?

 

[Lithoman]

Yes, the only thing I had was carbon.. You got the dinos from bottoming out the no3 and no4.
What testers are you using for no3 and no4?

 

[taricha]

So the cyano is what’s on the corals I am
Assuming? Some of the sps don’t look good. They starting to be covered with this stringy algae with a bubble on the end. Is that the Dino?

It looks like what attached to the coral is dinos. I would stop gfo, hook up UV as soon as possible. Also I would manually blow the material off of the Coral. When dinos attached directly to Coral tissue, the coral can go downhill very quickly.

 

[coralkurd]

Yes, the only thing I had was carbon.. You got the dinos from bottoming out the no3 and no4.
What testers are you using for no3 and no4?

Really? How can I bottom out? I using Hanna for phosphate and nyos for nitrate. I did just order the Hanna nitrate though.

I don’t run a fuge, I don’t use socks. All I have is a skimmer on my tank and I haven’t even changed gfo sense July. I do water changes like every 6-8 weeks only a 15% on a 75g tank.

Can you get dinos from too high nutrients?

 

[coralkurd]

It looks like what attached to the coral is dinos. I would stop gfo, hook up UV as soon as possible. Also I would manually blow the material off of the Coral. When dinos attached directly to Coral tissue, the coral can go downhill very quickly.

@taricha is it ok to have uv running 24/7?

 

[taricha]

@taricha is it ok to have uv running 24/7?

Yes, unless the uv is extremely oversized, and raises the tank temperature too much. But that's a pretty rare case.

 

[coralkurd]

Yes, unless the uv is extremely oversized, and raises the tank temperature too much. But that's a pretty rare case.

Also question about the uv. I looked everywhere to read what the flow rate it should be and can’t find it. It’s a jebao 55 watt uv. Would a maxi jet 1200 pump be ok?

Also could I get dinos with too high nutrients? Previous comment said it’s from bottoming out but I don’t see how I could have.

 

[taricha]

That flow might work. Try it and if it doesn't, bring the flow rate down to a few hundred gph.
Dinos can grow in higher nutrients, but usually they dominate systems when the nutrients are very low and other things get starved out.

 

[coralkurd]

That flow might work. Try it and if it doesn't, bring the flow rate down to a few hundred gph.
Dinos can grow in higher nutrients, but usually they dominate systems when the nutrients are very low and other things get starved out.

But does having .15 phosphates and 10-15 sound normal? Using Hanna checker and nyos for nitrate.

 

[taricha]

At those nutrient levels I would expect a lot of things to grow, and from your pictures that is what it happening. Lots of things are growing. Some dinos as well.
It's a little bit complex but my advice / expectation would be that if you leave the nutrients where they are, pull gfo, put in UV, and suction the noticeable Brown dinos, then the dinos would disappear and be really hard to find any of them in a couple of weeks.