Anyone battled dino's lately

[eddybabyhd]

I have been battling a small patch of dinoflagellates my my tank lately and was wondering if any locals have had this problem. If so, what type of water do you use, salt ect. I first thought that the film I was always cleaning from my tank panels was diatoms, but after examining a little better. I realized that I had a small patch of dino's.

Dripping Kalk has far been the best method for me. I am a little learly on the light starving method with clams in the tank.

Anyways, dinoflagellates are referred to by Julian Sprung, and Randy Holmes as the cancer of reefkeeping, here are some threads on the subject.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=956133&highlight=dino

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-11/rhf/index.php

Happy Thanksgiving

 

[VCoo71]

what bulbs are you running?

charlie

 

[eddybabyhd]

Reeflux 10k's, I just put my CoralVue 12k's back in to see if those make a difference

 

[jjmcat]

My entire sand bed was brown.Ive been trying to mix up the sand bed a little and some of it is gone now.Wish i could understand why this happened.

 

[ReeferRyan]

Wow, thank you for posting this. I gave up on my 75 because I couldn't handle the problem algae. I tried everything from new lights to mre flow, better skimmer, everything. I finally gave up and now I find out this was the problem. Guess I should have done my research

 

[eddybabyhd]

bump

 

[ReeferRyan]

I was running:

2x96 Watt VHO bulbs (1 actinic white, 1 Super Actinic) 12 hrs a day
1x250 Watt MH (XM 20K) 8 hrs a day
RO/DI Water (TDS around 15)
Instant Ocean Salt
AquaC EV-120 Skimmer powered by a mag 5
About 130 pounds of liverock

Phosphate .06
Nitrate 20
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0


This was in a 75 with a 30g sump