dinoflagellates??

[Koddie Doo]

Anyone got a cure? These are the measures I am Taking..

Just started doing by weekly water changes instead of monthly.
Blasting off with a turkey baster more regularly.
Running carbon 24/7.
Adding TLF with GFO soon.
Cut WAY back on feeding.
Skimming wetter.

Should I decrease my light time? Bulbs are 2 months old and have an Aqua Jr running its "light cycle" I guess it is about 10-11 hours a day..

Added a CUC around the new year. mostly certh snails and a couple of crabs..

Any other ideas that would be helpful?

 

[SushiGirl]

How old is the tank?
Stop the water changes, cut the feeding, cut the light cycle or do a 3 or 4 day lights-off, suck out all you can with a turkey baster or something.

 

[mike_cmu04]

Also try raising your mag to 1600 with Kent tech m.

 

[Koddie Doo]

How old is the tank?

6 years

Stop the water changes

That seems strange....

something.

Thats what I am asking...

 

[SushiGirl]

I meant a turkey baster or "something" like a turkey baster.
At 6 years old, I'd do what I said plus what mike said. If it was a new tank, I'd do what mike said as a last resort as you'll likely lose some snails and it would probably mostly be fueled by all the newbie and new tank issues.
Water changes fuel the growth. Took us a while to figure that out, then found through reading that others had figured it out as well.

On our new tank, cutting the light cycle by half, sucking out all we could, and skipping a couple of water changes got it under control. Took a bit longer than a full lights-out though.

 

[nicfo25]

How old is the tank?
Stop the water changes, cut the feeding, cut the light cycle or do a 3 or 4 day lights-off, suck out all you can with a turkey baster or something.

Take this advice it will work. Get it out manually as much as you can, then go lights out for 3 days. No feedings for the 3 days. (Maybe a little if you have a bunch of fish) It will work, you might have to do it twice but it will work.

 

[sanababit]

Take this advice it will work. Get it out manually as much as you can, then go lights out for 3 days. No feedings for the 3 days. (Maybe a little if you have a bunch of fish) It will work, you might have to do it twice but it will work.

yes, that is great advice, use a hose, create a siphon and send water to a sock filter over a bucket, and suck out as much as you can, then return the water to tank, i believe that there is something in NEW salt water that feeds the dinos, i fought it for about 2 weeks and won, good luck

Sana

 

[Roblox84]

I'm fighting the same problem currently and have been for a few months now. It's very annoying and it's the toxic dino that kills my snails when they eat it. There is an article that I read through as well found here http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-11/rhf/index.php. Currently I'm in the process of keeping my tank blacked out for 3 days. The article also states that if you have the toxic dino you can kill it by upping the ph of the aquarium using kalk water.

 

[James404]

Also try raising your mag to 1600 with Kent tech m.

This is typically the treatment that people use for bryopsis, not dinos.

All thats been said above should help. I personally used peroxide, you should be VERY careful with it if you do though. Theres some threads floating around here with the dosing info.

 

[Rockys_Pride]

Yup, peroxide does the job. The trade off is you have no more pods and inverts suffer.

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[Phishguy]

I was just posting about my experience this am with dinos. Here is what I did and worked perfectly. With dinos, water changes are bad. Stop the carbon and significantly reduce flow (1 maybe 2 powerheads) 3 days of zero light.. Turkey baster just moves it around and does nothing. Get a 3/4" tube, a bucket and a filter sock. Start a siphon and vacuum the rock etc and filter into bucket. I added nothing to my tank and did exactly what I wrote here. I did not lose a single fish or coral. All the Dino went away and haven't had any problem since.

 

[Phishguy]

Haha. Just saw that almost word for word what I posted already was posted. It will work!!