I will go back and edit this thread with the full details soon, but I want to give an update on my dinoflagellates. This is my 4th day of putting in my second UV light and I am hard pressed to find dinoflagellates. I pulled algae from the sand and the following picture is all I saw. It looked like some kind of pod deep in that, well whatever that is. I could not find any dinoflagellates though. I see nothing on the rock, coral, sand or back glass. I actually did decide to look elsewhere and finally I found a string of it in the refugium. Under the microscope I saw maybe 30 ostreopsis hanging on some algae, and some really thick looking clear worms with them. This led me to think that whatever little guys were hanging around were hanging out there and had not found their way to the main tank, so I gave them help. Literally I think they have almost completely lost the battle. I am going to keep at least one UV light in the rear of the tank for a month, maybe two. I will probably pull the first UV light in a few days.
So to reiterate, the following picture shows all that is currently on my sandbed, this stuff, that is all. Not the hundreds of dinoflagellates I would normally find on slime. Whatever this stuff is, that is all that remains. I have my lights on full blast now and so far nothing, I ran them for about 5 hours yesterday and also no occurrence.
So to reiterate, the following picture shows all that is currently on my sandbed, this stuff, that is all. Not the hundreds of dinoflagellates I would normally find on slime. Whatever this stuff is, that is all that remains. I have my lights on full blast now and so far nothing, I ran them for about 5 hours yesterday and also no occurrence.