Hey everyone. I've been battling what looks like Dinoflagellates for about three weeks now. It was real bad about a week ago, covering all the rocks and some of the Corals in brown, bubbly, goop.
I manually removed as much as I could, then did a 24hr blackout w/o dosing any chemicals. I also lowered the light intensity and reduced the photo-period. The Algae subsided but now I'm left with this residual stringy sh!t in the tank, and it's seeming to repopulate although it's not becoming goopy and bubbly.
The tank is a 44gal mixed reef, heavily stocked with fish and coral. Only been up about 4 months. I haven't done a water change in almost a month because I read Dinos feed off off the trace elements in a water change, but the Corals are beginning to suffer because of the water quality (and Dinos attaching to the polyps.
Parameters
Alk 9.6
Cal 490
Salinity 1.024
Mag - unknown (need a test kit)
Phos .02 (running phosban in a reactor for about a week now)
I manually removed as much as I could, then did a 24hr blackout w/o dosing any chemicals. I also lowered the light intensity and reduced the photo-period. The Algae subsided but now I'm left with this residual stringy sh!t in the tank, and it's seeming to repopulate although it's not becoming goopy and bubbly.
The tank is a 44gal mixed reef, heavily stocked with fish and coral. Only been up about 4 months. I haven't done a water change in almost a month because I read Dinos feed off off the trace elements in a water change, but the Corals are beginning to suffer because of the water quality (and Dinos attaching to the polyps.
Parameters
Alk 9.6
Cal 490
Salinity 1.024
Mag - unknown (need a test kit)
Phos .02 (running phosban in a reactor for about a week now)
