Ready to throw hammer through tank

[hadams356]

Ok people whats the answer to kill off dinos? Comfirmed
ostreopsis dinos under microscope. I have tried everything I've read other people have done to no avail.

In last 6 weeks I have dosed 13 doses of dino x, 2 3 day blackouts, 4 differents brands of bateria, 150ml phytoplankton 2 twice weekly. Bought and used sand sweeper uv light.

Change rodi filters monthly.

Parameters are
Alk 9 2
Ca 425
Mag 1310
PO4 .1
NO3 1

Run uv sterilizer 12 hrs a day. 9pm to 9am. Separate from uv sand sweeper.

I do not dose anything else besides Randy's 2 part.

Lighting is 3 Kessil AP9X (Tuna Blue @ 60%) and 2 Ai blades 1 Glow and 1 Grow (preset glow and grow settings @ 70%)

System is 200 gallon total with 3 inch sandbed, refugium w cheato.
Tank is 72" x 24" x 24" deep. Been up and running for 6 years

Help with any suggestions please.

Thanks for reading and sorry if article bounced around.

 

[Utubereefer]

Got a picture? How bad is it?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Have you checked out this thread?

Dinoflagellates – Are You Tired Of Battling Altogether?

I don't know what percentage of folks had luck battling dinos with any of the methods in the old Dino thread but it's obviously a very low percentage, so I'd like refresh folks on the natural alternatives and lay out three areas of info: some of the factors that contribute to a dino outbreak...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[FishLvR]

Dude I am with you. I started overdosing H2O2 with some success. However, one of my shrimp died. Might have been a fluke, might not have been. I was doing 1mL per gallon twice a day WAAAAAYYYY over what is suggested but it was working, REALLY well. Now that I have backed off to 50mL at night, not so much but it hasn't got worse!

 

[Reefer Matt]

Ok people whats the answer to kill off dinos? Comfirmed
ostreopsis dinos under microscope. I have tried everything I've read other people have done to no avail.

In last 6 weeks I have dosed 13 doses of dino x, 2 3 day blackouts, 4 differents brands of bateria, 150ml phytoplankton 2 twice weekly. Bought and used sand sweeper uv light.

Change rodi filters monthly.

Parameters are
Alk 9 2
Ca 425
Mag 1310
PO4 .1
NO3 1

Run uv sterilizer 12 hrs a day. 9pm to 9am. Separate from uv sand sweeper.

I do not dose anything else besides Randy's 2 part.

Lighting is 3 Kessil AP9X (Tuna Blue @ 60%) and 2 Ai blades 1 Glow and 1 Grow (preset glow and grow settings @ 70%)

System is 200 gallon total with 3 inch sandbed, refugium w cheato.
Tank is 72" x 24" x 24" deep. Been up and running for 6 years

Help with any suggestions please.

Thanks for reading and sorry if article bounced around.

I’d black the tank out for three days and run the uv 24/7. Can turn the lights on to feed the fish, then out again. Also make sure no fuge lights are on, and cover the tank sides if it is in ambient daylight. You may have to adjust your alk dosage if you dose, as there will be much less demand with the lights off, alk may go up.

 

[FishLvR]

I’d black the tank out for three days and run the uv 24/7. Can turn the lights on to feed the fish, then out again. Also make sure no fuge lights are on, and cover the tank sides if it is in ambient daylight. You may have to adjust your alk dosage if you dose, as there will be much less demand with the lights off, alk may go up.

It worked, well. Really well, but it came back so I am on team no black out. I am leaning more on the throwing the hammer, maybe he has a red sea and he won't even need the hammer.

 

[gbroadbridge]

I've had them a few times in a couple of tanks.

The more you do the worse they get - the solution I use now is just to ignore them and they go away when they feel unwanted.

Seriously, they occur when the tank is 'out of balance', and just like in nature, if you leave it alone the tank will eventually balance out and they will disappear.

 

[Reefer Matt]

It worked, well. Really well, but it came back so I am on team no black out. I am leaning more on the throwing the hammer, maybe he has a red sea and he won't even need the hammer.

Understood, lol. I had to repeat it all about 4-5 times to get rid of it. Had it in a few tanks.

 

[FishLvR]

I've had them a few times in a couple of tanks.

The more you do the worse they get - the solution I use now is just to ignore them and they go away when they feel unwanted.

Seriously, they occur when the tank is 'out of balance', and just like in nature, if you leave it alone the tank will eventually balance out and they will disappear.

Honestly this is my new approach. The hydrogen peroxide has helped a fair bit. It really has, but the shrimp made me pause. I am also not doing the once a week massive water change anymore. It will be a modest 10 gallons from now on a week, and we will see how long I even do that. I noticed corals not really happy after these water changes. It just felt off. It will also save me money.

 

[TwelveL16]

I beat them in less than a week, heres what I did...

Put brand new bulb in my oversized UV -must be oversized. Water MUST be going through the UV at 300gph or less. I raised my Phosphate to .3 and dosed it all day long that way it was consistent and raised nitrates to 10. I added Phytoplankton daily. I added Copepods and I added 6 vials of probidio biodigest (150g tank).

Cleared up fast, also do not black out for ostreopsis. It puts them into a resting cyst form.

 

[Salty_Northerner]

Wanna know a trick to dealing with dinos?

UV sweep then add live phyto and add MORE white to the lighting.

Give it 4-5 days and watch them dinos go away... not joking!

I was adding peroxide. I was dosing MB7. I tried water-glass exc but it was just a pita!

I spoke to Moe from 3Dreefing and he suggested adding more white to my lighting schedule and add live phyto daily and on day 4-5 dinos just went away!

 

[gbroadbridge]

I beat them in less than a week, heres what I did...

Put brand new bulb in my oversized UV -must be oversized. Water MUST be going through the UV at 300gph or less. I raised my Phosphate to .3 and dosed it all day long that way it was consistent and raised nitrates to 10. I added Phytoplankton daily. I added Copepods and I added 6 vials of probidio biodigest (150g tank).

Cleared up fast, also do not black out for ostreopsis. It puts them into a resting cyst form.

Tried it. Didn't work for me ...

 

[gbroadbridge]

Wanna know a trick to dealing with dinos?

UV sweep then add live phyto and add MORE white to the lighting.

Give it 4-5 days and watch them dinos go away... not joking!

I was adding peroxide. I was dosing MB7. I tried water-glass exc but it was just a pita!

I spoke to Moe from 3Dreefing and he suggested adding more white to my lighting schedule and add live phyto daily and on day 4-5 dinos just went away!

Tried it. Didn't work for me ...

 

[gbroadbridge]

Moral of the story.

None of these quick fixes will work for everyone.
They may work for YOUR tank, but probably not for anyone else.

You will most likely have just as much success by just leaving them alone and waiting for them to burn themselves out.

 

[FishLvR]

I harvest my own phyto and pods. I put about 16oz of phyto a day in the tank. And dump pods weekly with pod water change. The uv I have is just a green machine. I have six vials of probido. But hesitant. Tomorrow I should be getting my liter of Clean and mb7. Other than that I'm going to ride it out. Phosphates are point 03 though. I could up it.

 

[Paul B]

I am leaning more on the throwing the hammer, maybe he has a red sea and he won't even need the hammer.

I threw the hammer but it didn't work. It took about a year of sucking it out with a diatom filter but I finally eliminated all of it.

 

[TwelveL16]

Wanna know a trick to dealing with dinos?

UV sweep then add live phyto and add MORE white to the lighting.

Give it 4-5 days and watch them dinos go away... not joking!

I was adding peroxide. I was dosing MB7. I tried water-glass exc but it was just a pita!

I spoke to Moe from 3Dreefing and he suggested adding more white to my lighting schedule and add live phyto daily and on day 4-5 dinos just went away!

Tried it. Didn't work for me ...

Well than you didn’t do it right. It’s an organism it has unfavorable conditions. It’s not indestructible.

 

[jonelder68]

I threw the hammer but it didn't work. It took about a year of sucking it out with a diatom filter but I finally eliminated all of it.

I agree with Paul. I’m hopefully wrapping up round two on Dino’s. Besides UV and keeping nutrients up to promote competitive growth/competition the other thing that seems to work is manual removal. A week or two of only getting worse than I started manual removing it. What I do is run a marineland magnum canister filter in the DT. Multiple times a day use a turkey baster and blow all the Dino’s loose. The canister filter sucks up most the small stuff. The large stuff blowing around I scoop out with a fish net. After a week or so of this method there’s only a touch of Dino’s. I change the filter in the canister filter daily/every morning. Can buy a 4 pack of filters off Amazon. Soak after use in bleach then light dry out in sun before reusing.

Don’t know if it works but the last few strands I have hanging around I’m going to try the blow it all loose and add diy coral snow. Going to try tonight. Curious to see if it will bind with the Dino strands and let the skimmer remove.

After a week of labor we’re about back to normal Manual removal is all I’ve had success with.

 

[jonelder68]

The marineland magnum filters do work!

 

[TwelveL16]

I harvest my own phyto and pods. I put about 16oz of phyto a day in the tank. And dump pods weekly with pod water change. The uv I have is just a green machine. I have six vials of probido. But hesitant. Tomorrow I should be getting my liter of Clean and mb7. Other than that I'm going to ride it out. Phosphates are point 03 though. I could up it.

Not sure what you mean by your UV is just a green machine. UV is known to be the most effective treatment for ostreopsis, I’d make dang sure I had that working at a minimum. Idk tho maybe try the hammer