What Do Dinos Consume to Grow/Multiply?

Tritie · Feb 12, 2024

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
I personally would not use organic carbon dosing to try to eradicate dinos since they may well consume the organic perfectly well.

IMO, you want to boost competition, and making sure N and P are readily available, and potentially dosing silicate to spur diatom competition is a good plan.

@Randy Holmes-Farley I would like to spur diatoms as I hear they are good for feeding pods, but I run UV for fish parasites (as well as to continue to fight coolia). On Mack's Dino group they advise against running uv if trying to induce a diatom bloom, but I understand different organisms need different contact times. I've asked on R2R before and on the Dino group but cannot seem to get a contact time for diatoms. Do you know?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Feb 12, 2024

Tritie said:
@Randy Holmes-Farley I would like to spur diatoms as I hear they are good for feeding pods, but I run UV for fish parasites (as well as to continue to fight coolia). On Mack's Dino group they advise against running uv if trying to induce a diatom bloom, but I understand different organisms need different contact times. I've asked on R2R before and on the Dino group but cannot seem to get a contact time for diatoms. Do you know?

I'd do it anyway. I don't know contact time for diatoms, but I'm not sure it can prevent them.

Superlightman · Mar 9, 2025

Did you get ride of it?

zuri · Mar 9, 2025

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
I personally would not use organic carbon dosing to try to eradicate dinos since they may well consume the organic perfectly well.

IMO, you want to boost competition, and making sure N and P are readily available, and potentially dosing silicate to spur diatom competition is a good plan.

you don't even need to dose silica if you have any fresh frag plugs the ceramic flat ones have more than enough to fuel a few sponges