Prorocentrum Dino Outbreak!! Help!

[mikem885]

Hi everyone,

I just discovered I have Prorocentrum Dinos in my mixed reef tank.

I have very expensive corals in between all types. When i mean mixed, it's a mixed tank including very nice SPS pieces.

My tank water volume is about 75 gallons.

I have been dosing 1 ml of sponge excel daily (just upped to 2ml today)

2 capfuls of microbac7

Got my phosphates back up to .12 and nitrates to 9.6

I stopped all aminos and water changes as well.

I added a half gallon of mixed pods and dosing 10 ml a day of Live Phyto.

I have been doing this for 5 days and have seen no improvement, it actually looks worse now.

I'm worried these will create toxins so i added carbon directly where my return pump goes down into my sump.

Any other suggestions?

I was maybe thinking switching to water glass silicates or do i just need to dose more spongeexcel for a diatom bloom?


Plsss help!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Take a look at these two threads

Dinos: Prorocentrum - Let's beat this!

Hello all, My microscope showed up today. Can anyone help me ID this thing? I know people are trying different treatment options based on the type of dinos. Based on the ID can you provide me any details on the best way to eradicate these? Thanks, Ben

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Prorocentrum Dinos - Beat in less than 2-weeks

Here is what worked for me, I wouldn't say my case was severe yet, but they were spreading all over my tank. On the microscope I already had a good amount of diatoms and could clearly see prorocentrum dinos in my slides. I think you can use this same plan of attack for Amphidinium since they...

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