My awesome view of my tank this weekend...

[KellyCorals]

Thanks a lot Dino algae...now my tank gets to look like a UPS package for 3 days. Fingers crossed that the blackout works!

 

[WIReefer]

Best of luck!

 

[Lita]

Lol oh no ‍ is this your first try to get rid of them?

 

[Velcro]

Buy a uv

 

[HB AL]

Buy a uv

Never had dinos in 35+ years, have always ran a uv, I assume thats another benefit from a uv?

 

[ReefHomieJon]

Never had dinos in 35+ years, have always ran a uv, I assume thats another benefit from a uv?

Lol they had UV’s 35+ years ago?!?

 

[HB AL]

Lol they had UV’s 35+ years ago?!?

You incorrectly inferred I ran uv for35+ years. What I said was I've never had dinos in 35+ years. I didn't keep track of when I started running uv since I never assumed the date was important. It has been a long time.

 

[OrionN]

Consider increase your temp. I increased my tank temp to 82 F and it took care of my Dino.

 

[ReefHomieJon]

You incorrectly inferred I ran uv for35+ years. What I said was I've never had dinos in 35+ years. I didn't keep track of when I started running uv since I never assumed the date was important. It has been a long time.

“You incorrectly inferred....” why do people get so stupid on this forum? Overly sensitive. Naw, You incorrectly structured your statement and left room for someone to ask for clarification. You could have just clarified without screwing up the entire friendly tone of the conversation smh
#Reef2Reef

 

[KellyCorals]

Lol oh no ‍ is this your first try to get rid of them?

Buy a uv

Never had dinos in 35+ years, have always ran a uv, I assume thats another benefit from a uv?

Yes this is my first attempt to get rid of them...kinda. I tried everything else first...installed a 36w UV, increased nutrients...played with the light spectrum and schedule...dosed extra bacteria and pods...just about everything. Finally decided to try the black out after giving other attempts some time to work. I wondering first hand if people have had luck with blacking the tank out.

 

[FlexingFishSticks]

Good luck! I did a 7 day black out plus UV and had the tank temp at 82. It wiped out all Dinos all my fish and inverts survived fine as well. I did however move my corals to quarantine tank luckily I did not have that many at the time.

 

[Qasimja]

i got rid of my dinos by letting my tank get dirty and running uv hvent come back yet been 5-6 months

 

[KellyCorals]

Consider increase your temp. I increased my tank temp to 82 F and it took care of my Dino.

Ive been running my tank at 80 and usually with the lights on for a couple hours the tank temp will creep up to 81-82. But still no luck on taking down the Dino’s. Since they all but “disappear” by magic when the light are off I’m thinking this might be the final solution to at least get them under control. A UV is great for taking care of dino spores floating in the water, but after you already have them covering the sand bed and rocks the UV does squat for those. That being said I’m running my UV 24 hours during the black out and plan to keep it on that way forever - might be my imagination but it seems to improve water clarity.

 

[Flippers4pups]

5 years of battling dinoflagellates and trying everything in the book. None of which worked, until I raised my temp to 81. Within a week it was gone. I keep my system now at 80 degrees. It is dependent on what type of dinoflagellate you have on what course of action you take. I had ostreopsis.

 

[KellyCorals]

5 years of battling dinoflagellates and trying everything in the book. None of which worked, until I raised my temp to 81. Within a week it was gone. I keep my system now at 80 degrees. It is dependent on what type of dinoflagellate you have on what course of action you take. I had ostreopsis.

I think there is a valid point to be made here...depending on what type of Dino algae I have will depend on what method of getting rid of them will work. That’s why if you ask 10 different people you will get 10 different answers about how to win the war but none of them the same. Some people say UV, other nutrients, other Dino’s just “time out” eventually and fix them selfs. I’m trying this next and if no luck then it’s time to find a lab scope and go Full Bill Nye on these jerks.

 

[Flippers4pups]

I think there is a valid point to be made here...depending on what type of Dino algae I have will depend on what method of getting rid of them will work. That’s why if you ask 10 different people you will get 10 different answers about how to win the war but none of them the same. Some people say UV, other nutrients, other Dino’s just “time out” eventually and fix them selfs. I’m trying this next and if no luck then it’s time to find a lab scope and go Full Bill Nye on these ********.

I would highly suggest a microscope ID.

 

[KellyCorals]

On a side note I didn’t think jerks was such a bad word that it was ******** worthy. Gosh golly I better keep the lingo “G” rated around here in case Barney the dinosaur is reading this.

 

[Bob Weigant]

I had a small fight with dino's. I didnt have to completely cover my tank ( its in the garage and gets pretty dark ) but shut down the lights for 3 days , turned them back on for 2 then shut them down for 3 days again. It worked

 

[KellyCorals]

I would highly suggest a microscope ID.

Believe me that’s my very next step. I’m already totally obsessed/consumed with my tank and corals and know when the wife sees me bust out the microscope that’s going to tip her over the edge lol.

 

[BradR]

I had luck with doubling my fish feedings and blasting it with a baster. Zero phos I think was the reason. Like the condemned sign lol.