Dinoflagellates

[DontLookBack92]

Ok so after my red slime i finally gave up and ran a treatment. It called off everything then this nasty rusty stringy algae popped up all over the sand bed and rocks now the corals!! I am pretty sure that it is dinoflagellates and i don't know what to do! Please give me some ideas and thoughts

 

[tkeracer619]

Dinos are a bacteria that is a real pain to get rid of.

Can you tell us a bit about your system?

The general rule of thumb is stop water changes other then what you use to manually suck out the dinos, raise the PH, and cut lights for a couple days.

How old is this system?

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

 

[Cahooligan]

i got rid of them by turning lights off over a week maybe around 2 weeks, no water changes for a month to 2 months, phosphate removers and carbon. Filter pad to catch as much as possible that need to be changed. the key is to destroy the water so that they cant survive in it. there is a product on the Aquavitro line called 8.4 that will raise your ph to 8.4. that may help. good luck. theyre a real pain...

 

[DontLookBack92]

what about all my corals what do i do for their light then?

 

[berniegermie]

Same thing happened to me a month ago. I had a cyano problem, ran Chemiclean(red slime remover) red slime disappeared but Dinos appeared right after which are worse than cyano. I tried lights out for one day, but stopped because my SPS started to lose color.