Basically looks like diatom in the dark, then it disappears in the light and then the Dino grows elsewhere. It’s really crazy….. I’ll try and take photos in the morning.It depends on the tank and a huge number of variables associated with it - it can last weeks or even months (some people have reported combatting dinos for over a year). Whenever the tank's microbiome matures and stabilizes, it should die down.
Any photos of this or more in depth description of it? It's not really relevant to the topic at hand, I'm just curious.
This may be largely true depending on the tank, but it isn't necessarily always true, and it isn't necessarily always fast.
Ugh you’re giving me hope I Just can’t wait for that day.
I have nothing against hair algae and it’s not hard to clean or maintain. It’s the Dino that I HATE and it’s literally driving me nuts.
The bloody purigen I added made it worse again as my nitrates dropped again. I added it for the clarity aspect told over and over it’s better than carbon and it would help with the nitrite. It didn’t, and only dropped nitrates and let the Dino grow back a lot again. Luckily dosing the nitrate helped to slow it down.
It grows wayyyyy faster at higher water temp also, and grows slower at lower temp……