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Hi there, my tank is a 120g with 25g sump. Around 4 months since fish were first added (medium to heavy bioload). Nitrates are 10ppm and phosphates are 0.03- 0.1. Recently I have run into a dinoflagellate issues and have been combatting it with excessive water changes ( rock scrubbing and sand sifting) as well as upgrading my 12 gallon refugium to try and outcompete the dinos. To help out the cheato I have installed a kessil H380 set to grow as well as beginning to dose brightwell cheatogro. It has begun to grow much faster and I have noticed a decrease of dinos in the DT. The issue is that the dinos are growing faster than the cheato so I am constantly cleaning my fuge out and washing the dinos off the cheato. It is also growing on the rocks and sand and is covering up the new coraline algae growth. I have read that dosing competitive bacteria (specifically microbacter clean which I happen to have on hand) can help eliminate dinos, however, I am worried it may stop the cheato from growing and since my set up is relatively new, the cheato is helping to stop my nitrates from sky rocketing as well as holding back the dino's. If anyone has experience with microbacter clean or any other competative bacterias could you please let me know whether or not I should dose the bacteria. I am aware my situation is not as bad as the others I've seen out there, but the maintenance is becoming quite exhausting and I could really use some help. Sorry for the long post! Thank you in advance!
(BTW my plan is simply to keep the dinos at bay while my cheato grows in and fills the fuge completely allowing it to out compete the dinos which I believe will work. The cheato is currently 1/3 the size of the fuge and at the current growth rate, it should completely fill it in about 1-2 weeks)
(BTW my plan is simply to keep the dinos at bay while my cheato grows in and fills the fuge completely allowing it to out compete the dinos which I believe will work. The cheato is currently 1/3 the size of the fuge and at the current growth rate, it should completely fill it in about 1-2 weeks)