Reef Aquarium Fact #122 Dinoflagellates can be treated and eradicated by raising your PH.

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We are going to continue discussing the reef aquarium facts submitted by our members. Do you agree or disagree? What are your thoughts?

Fact #122

Dinoflagellates can be treated and eradicated by raising your PH.



Truth or False? What else might we need to learn on this subject? Please also share any pictures that may pertain to the subject.

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How I Beat Dinoflagellates, Reef Aquarium Dinoflagellates | AquaNerd
 
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False... You know where this high ph stuff started? I believe with some advice Julian Sprung had gave me 15 to 20 years ago. It didn't work then and it don't work now for me. Eventually a high ph can kill everything in our reef though.
 
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Wow so this is 100% not true?
 

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I would say that it isn't 100% not true. I would say there is no true evidence of that. I know from past tanks where I couldn't keep or wasn't getting my ph stable above 8.1 that I was having trouble with Dino. Now that my new tank is stable and ph is always above 8.25 that I have not had any issues with any algae or Dino. My thoughts would be u have to have stable higher ph to keep it at bay or to never have any issue of it.
 
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I will say false unless you raise it to the point that you are killing other things too. I think it depends on the type of dinoflagellates. Perhaps member Pants will join in this discussion.
 

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Didnt work for me. Dinos beat kicked my butt and threw me down. I had to reset the tank, start off with MarcoRocks and had to bleach all the pumps, tank and equipment. Also started with 100% new livestock.
 

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Worked for me... I had some starting so
I made a super strong batch of kalk and force evaporated my tank with fans for a night to drip it in faster.. Two days later no Dino
 

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I had a kalk reactor in line with my ato, and it was like the dinos fed on the kalk.
 

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