Dino Outbreak In Sps Tank Need Help

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Within the last week I have had a major dino outbreak in my tank.It has covered almost every rock and I fear the acro's are next. What is the quickest way to eradicate this problem. I have tested my trates and phos and everything tests ok. I made the mistake of blowing the dino's off the rocks and this only caused the dino's to spread. I battled this when I first set my 125 up(was upgraded from a 55 gal) by using macryn(sp) I am reluctant to use this now because the tank is now heavely stocked with sps. I have done a couple of extra water changes on top of my regular once a week schedule, which seems to have not helped at all. The only thing that I have changed recently is the addition of a calcium reactor.Any tricks, tips or succes stories on beating the dino's would be appreciated greatly.
 
Dinos are the hardest thing to get rid of. Took me about 6 - 8 months of constantly cleaning (and going BB) to do it. Never found out what was causing the outbreak, but it never was detrimental to the corals either. Just a major eyesore...
 
Best pic I could find, I usually cleaned before taking pics. It's the snotty looking stuff that traps bubbles....

dinos.jpg
 
Having same problem with my tank.... used chemi clean lights out for 2 days and decreased my lighting time from 9 hours to 4hrs...it seems to be helping. Will also be doing 10-20% water changes every week until resolved...... Hope you get rid of them quickly.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7179241#post7179241 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jsweir
Best pic I could find, I usually cleaned before taking pics. It's the snotty looking stuff that traps bubbles....

dinos.jpg

I thought that stuff with the bubbles was cyanobacteria? Isn't dino the golden/brown film you get on the tank glass?
 
The slime w/ bubbles is dino. I removed my sand bed and cooked my rock. Tank has been back up for 3 weeks now - not a sign of any dino's.

David
 
Water changes and carbon are your best friends.

I had a horrible outbreak of dino in the first 8 months of my tank setup.

I tried turning the lights off for 2 days without any success.

If you can, do daily 10-15% water changes for a week. Then step down to 2-3 times a week.

Use carbon, 3 tablespoons per 50 gallons of tank voulme. Change the carbon out every 48 hours.

I was able to beat my dino outbreak in less than 4 week using the method above.

Good luck!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7183915#post7183915 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by shelburn61

JB NY,

What is the carbon removing to curb the dino growth?

You have dinos due to too high nutrients. Carbon will help lower this. Water changes will help as well. But I find the biggest impact on dinos is frequent use of carbon.
 
Make sure your makeup water has 0 tds.

Also, according to Julian Sprung's book Reef Aquarium he states that high ph of 8.4 for a week will irradicate this algea.

Here's the quote from the book.
"From Peter Wilkens we have learned a cure that really works. Elevating the ph to 8.4 or a little higher via kalkwasser additions effectively causes the bloom to crash within about a week, usually. "

This is out on left field a little but resently I've had an algea problem. Not dino's but some sort of diatom. I've been adding strontium additions and have noticed the problem going away. Maybe it's the noticeable increase of corraline algea, I don't know.


Albert
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7187248#post7187248 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by alazo1
Also, according to Julian Sprung's book Reef Aquarium he states that high ph of 8.4 for a week will irradicate this algea.

I tried it, it didn't work for me. Hardest part was getting the pH to stay that high for a week. Lots of buffer and a week later dinos looked just as bad.
 
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