Been thinking about this lately, because it happened to me a few years ago and seems to be happening to others. I had bubble algae that got out of hand very quickly. I read about Vibrant and have it a try. Well, it worked beautifully in just a week or so. However, once the algae was gone, a massive explosion of ostreopsis ovata occurred. After fighting that off, amphidinium moved in to take its place. Beat that back and coolia came. It sort of ran its own course and I have been Dino free for about a year and a half or so now.
Why does this happen? It doesn't seem to be limited to Vibrant. A few Amazon reviews of Flux Rx say that they had it happen too. I'm assuming that the vacancy of the biological niche occupied by the algae allows something else to step in and flourish, but why is it always dinos? Aren't most dinos both heterotrophic and autotrophic? Why do they explode when algae is eliminated quickly? We say to increase nutrients when fighting dinos. But doesn't the death of all that algae release a lot of nutrients into the water? What about people that run VLN tanks, why don't they have constant Dino problems?
Just some questions I'm asking myself. Anybody have any good theories as to why this happens, and how to stop it?
Why does this happen? It doesn't seem to be limited to Vibrant. A few Amazon reviews of Flux Rx say that they had it happen too. I'm assuming that the vacancy of the biological niche occupied by the algae allows something else to step in and flourish, but why is it always dinos? Aren't most dinos both heterotrophic and autotrophic? Why do they explode when algae is eliminated quickly? We say to increase nutrients when fighting dinos. But doesn't the death of all that algae release a lot of nutrients into the water? What about people that run VLN tanks, why don't they have constant Dino problems?
Just some questions I'm asking myself. Anybody have any good theories as to why this happens, and how to stop it?