Im battling dino problems(RED SEA 250)

[mooputingtong]

Hello guys i have a red sea 250 with 5 gallon custom built refugium system(about 5 months old).

Eversince installing refugium nitrate dropped from 10 to almost non detectable and dino slowly showed up and its seems like dino is taking over sand and all over the surface.

So today i started dosing microbacter7 and neonitro daily and hope this will slowly get rid of dinos.

Im not currently considering turning lights off for few days since some of my corals are already suffering from either dino or low nutrition.

Let me know how u won dino battle on your tank!

Happy Reefing!

 

[vetteguy53081]

First- Check phosphates and nitrates to assure theyre not elevated.
Here is full program:
Prepare by starting with a water change and blow this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles.
Turn lights off (at least white and run blue at 10-15%) for 5 days and at night dose 1ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights. If you dont have light dependent coral- turn all lights off.
During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as bacter 7) per 10 gallons.
Clean filters daily and DO NOT FEED CORAL FOODS OR ADD NOPOX as it is food for dinos.
Day 5,, you can start with blue lights - ramping up and work your white lights up slowly

 

[Rubberfrog]

Sounds like your refugium is sucking all the nitrates out. What do you have growing in there?

 

[mooputingtong]

Sounds like your refugium is sucking all the nitrates out. What do you have growing in there?

chaeto and dragon breath algae.

 

[mooputingtong]

First- Check phosphates and nitrates to assure theyre not elevated.
Here is full program:
Prepare by starting with a water change and blow this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles.
Turn lights off (at least white and run blue at 10-15%) for 5 days and at night dose 1ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights. If you dont have light dependent coral- turn all lights off.
During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as bacter 7) per 10 gallons.
Clean filters daily and DO NOT FEED CORAL FOODS OR ADD NOPOX as it is food for dinos.
Day 5,, you can start with blue lights - ramping up and work your white lights up slowly

thanks for the advice!

 

[Kinjirra]

chaeto and dragon breath algae.

you could turn the lights off in the Fuge....wont hurt the Chaeto at all if its off a few days.. That will really slow the export of Nitrate and help bring it back up I would think.

 

[lkc]

You'll have to remove all the macro algae from the fuge. The H202 will kill it first thing.
Rinse it in RO and put it a bucket. There's dinos in that macro and you need to kill it. Else, when you put your fuge back on line, dinos will come right back.

Actually I did this whole process and the dinos came back in three days so I'll be doing it again.

 

[Scape]

BRS have just done a new video series which is excellent, they address Dino briefly and say that lirtally nobody really knows how to battle Dino and cyano they've seen, kept and mantianed thousands of reef tanks and are OG's in this hobby so I'm listening to them, if you want to know more check out they're YouTube channel!

 

[VermontReefs]

Hello guys i have a red sea 250 with 5 gallon custom built refugium system(about 5 months old).

Eversince installing refugium nitrate dropped from 10 to almost non detectable and dino slowly showed up and its seems like dino is taking over sand and all over the surface.

So today i started dosing microbacter7 and neonitro daily and hope this will slowly get rid of dinos.

Im not currently considering turning lights off for few days since some of my corals are already suffering from either dino or low nutrition.

Let me know how u won dino battle on your tank!

Happy Reefing!

I have a question for you. What kind of rock does your tank comprise of currently? Was it started with dry rock or aqua cultured actual live rock?

 

[mooputingtong]

I have a question for you. What kind of rock does your tank comprise of currently? Was it started with dry rock or aqua cultured actual live rock?

i started with dry rock. Will that be a problem?

 

[mooputingtong]

BRS have just done a new video series which is excellent, they address Dino briefly and say that lirtally nobody really knows how to battle Dino and cyano they've seen, kept and mantianed thousands of reef tanks and are OG's in this hobby so I'm listening to them, if you want to know more check out they're YouTube channel!

i recently watched that videos and i have decided to use dosing nitrate and bacteria. Thanks for the advice!

 

[Scape]

i recently watched that videos and i have decided to use dosing nitrate and bacteria. Thanks for the advice!

You're welcome!