ID dinos under microscope!!

[Reeflix]

Can anyone ID these Dino’s under the microscope?! Sorry if the pics are bad, I will try to get more.

 

[Reeflix]

Whatever they are they are pretty toxic, making a lot of my coral mad.

 

[dwest]

I don’t see dinos

 

[Reeflix]

No?

 

[dwest]

@taricha

 

[Reeflix]

Is there a way to separate them from everything else?

 

[Reeflix]

They have disappeared from the sand bed, I am going to do a jar test tomorrow to get a good sample, hopefully I can get a good ID tomorrow

 

[Reeflix]

Here are those better pics!

 

[taricha]

Here are those better pics!

That first video is definitive. This is a cryptomonas or similar.
Phycokey

 

[Reeflix]

That first video is definitive. This is a cryptomonas or similar.
Phycokey

I looked it up and couldn’t find too much in it. What would be the recommended treatment?

 

[taricha]

I looked it up and couldn’t find too much in it. What would be the recommended treatment?

...Because they don't usually last and aren't thought to be very problematic. I'd just manually remove brown accumulations that annoyed me, and let time pass.

 

[Dan_P]

That first video is definitive. This is a cryptomonas or similar.
Phycokey

You are way better Than ChatGPT. By the way, some of my algae cultures develop hoards of these too.

 

[Reeflix]

...Because they don't usually last and aren't thought to be very problematic. I'd just manually remove brown accumulations that annoyed me, and let time pass.

They have been a problem to me, all of my coral are mad.

 

[taricha]

You are way better Than ChatGPT. By the way, some of my algae cultures develop hoards of these too.

It's kind of amazing that almost every single cell algae that gets posted in the nuisance algae forum is something I could find in my sandbed at one time or another over a span of several years.
Not sure how I got sand that contained samples of everything, but you've experienced similar.
over time, you've managed to grow most everything Identifiable on the forum in one culture or another. Together, maybe our experience suggests that the hobby nuisances are ubiquitous, and exist somewhere in most every system.

 

[taricha]

They have been a problem to me, all of my coral are mad.

two things that can often be helpful. These are not usually toxic and would likely be grazed by copepods, so acquiring some copepods (algaebarn etc) might be useful in this case.
Also, if you have some algae in your system that is attaching on/near corals - it is usually attaching out of the water, and a strong UV in the display can wipe out outbreaks of those types that spend time in the water.

 

[Dan_P]

It's kind of amazing that almost every single cell algae that gets posted in the nuisance algae forum is something I could find in my sandbed at one time or another over a span of several years.
Not sure how I got sand that contained samples of everything, but you've experienced similar.
over time, you've managed to grow most everything Identifiable on the forum in one culture or another. Together, maybe our experience suggests that the hobby nuisances are ubiquitous, and exist somewhere in most every system.

We can steal the saying from bacteriology: ”everything everywhere”. This means all species of bacteria can be found everywhere. Since we (the hobby) inoculate our systems with many sources of organisms at least a dozen times during the first year, we certainly are increasing the odds of everything being in our systems.

 

[Reeflix]

two things that can often be helpful. These are not usually toxic and would likely be grazed by copepods, so acquiring some copepods (algaebarn etc) might be useful in this case.
Also, if you have some algae in your system that is attaching on/near corals - it is usually attaching out of the water, and a strong UV in the display can wipe out outbreaks of those types that spend time in the water.

I am getting a UV, is it possible that there are other Dinos in my tank? They have already killed one of my fish….

 

[taricha]

I am getting a UV, is it possible that there are other Dinos in my tank? They have already killed one of my fish….

Dinos in the mix is possible.
What fish? Unless it's an herbivore,I can't see how it could possibly ingest enough toxic dinos to kill a fish.

 

[Reeflix]

It’s a sand sifter goby. All of the Dinos at that time were in the sand

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

I recommend joining this group on Facebook they will identify and help with solving the issu

es . There's multiple ways to tackle dinos