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I would need to see them move in order to properly identify them at this magnification.The little sesame seeds are definitely dinos. The green is some type of algae. They seem to coexist at the moment
They suck! And vets cut and paste works okay but doesn’t really get rid of them.. it knocks the population down for sure thou.. it took me a couple months of running uv and just blues on low like 20% dosing h202 every night and sponge excell to get them manageable but they still wouldn’t leave! The nail in the coffin was getting a few live rocks from some friends and throwing them in my tank to balance it all out! After a few days they disappeared.Those would indeed be dinos.
And with that photo, it would appear that these are the type with scuta, which is why UV would have a lesser effect on them.
@vetteguy53081 has an excellent regimen for taking care of these. I'll leave him to it.
Cut and paste? - I use this post universally in my own words and it works if followed precisely. Im not going to retype this every time someone has issue.They suck! And vets cut and paste works okay but doesn’t really get rid of them.. it knocks the population down for sure thou.. it took me a couple months of running uv and just blues on low like 20% dosing h202 every night and sponge excell to get them manageable but they still wouldn’t leave! The nail in the coffin was getting a few live rocks from some friends and throwing them in my tank to balance it all out! After a few days they disappeared.
They suck! And vets cut and paste works okay but doesn’t really get rid of them.. it knocks the population down for sure thou.. it took me a couple months of running uv and just blues on low like 20% dosing h202 every night and sponge excell to get them manageable but they still wouldn’t leave! The nail in the coffin was getting a few live rocks from some friends and throwing them in my tank to balance it all out! After a few days they disappeared.
Exactly you cut and paste.. I’ve seen it posted 100 times and it’s exact “word for word” not a bad thing! I wouldn’t type it over and over either haha! So yeah.. cut and pasteCut and paste? - I use this post universally in my own words and it works if followed precisely. Im not going to retype this every time someone has issue.
Lower your gph by a factor of 5. Slow and steady. Dwell time is the key here, but as stated, these may take a little more...Been running UV 36w at around 500gph which hasnt done squat.
Same issue I had, but mine was the long stranding type, which gave me opportunity to manually remove it.Population is growing (glass, frag racks, pumps etc, some corals...) nothing growing on rocks or sand at the moment.
Phyto itself doesn 't compete with dinos. Diatoms and algae may.Went thru a whole bottle of oceanmagic phyto with little effect.
My solution was phos at 0.12, Nitrates over 20.Been running my nutrients too low I think (5ppm and .03) but by morning I am at < .01. Yesterday I started to dose more (phytofeast, and phos) keeping my nitrates at 5pm but bringing phos up to .10
Cannot stress enough how important this is, as dinoflagellates will produce horrible toxins that can also aerosolize. When I was murdering mine I felt miserable until I put my carbon reactor online.I also brought my carbon reactor back online to help with potential toxins.
I had the stringy ones awhile back before the sand dwellers.. I did notice a smell and my arm would sting or break out with a rash when I was in the tank! I got rid of these quick with h202 by it’s self.. the little sand boogers ugh..Lower your gph by a factor of 5. Slow and steady. Dwell time is the key here, but as stated, these may take a little more...
Same issue I had, but mine was the long stranding type, which gave me opportunity to manually remove it.
Phyto itself doesn 't compete with dinos. Diatoms and algae may.
My solution was phos at 0.12, Nitrates over 20.
Cannot stress enough how important this is, as dinoflagellates will produce horrible toxins that can also aerosolize. When I was murdering mine I felt miserable until I put my carbon reactor online.
Did that also. Had it running around 100-200 GPH and the results were the same over the course of a week,Lower your gph by a factor of 5. Slow and steady. Dwell time is the key here, but as stated, these may take a little more...
Keep dosing and turn your light up to 30% with blues only.. if you wanna change the water it won’t hurt! I’d siphon the sand bed the best you can during that water change to help knock them down more. Dosing some silicates will help at this stage also bringing on diatoms