Dinoflagellates.

[karimwassef]

Hair algae. Tangs and emerald crabs eat it. Congrats-not Dino's. ...lucky!!

BUT! Depending on the method you use to remove the hair algae, you could join the dino club!

Just use a clean up crew, manage your phosphates and you should be ok. A GFO and an ATS should clean it up.

 

[Billybatz9]

I'm about to give up. Holy crap.

 

[Dfee]

...Don't do it

 

[Billybatz9]

...Don't do it

I just went to see a buddy's tank and his tank is flawless and everything is beautiful with great growth. Then I come home to mine and am disgusted. Monti bleaching, brown algae on sps corals. Luckily, I don't have stringy algae, more like diatoms, but damn it's annoying!! I want to be able to enjoy the hobby and not have to research 24/7 on how to beat this algae.

 

[Dfee]

I wish there was a way for everyone to have individual threads about trying to fight Dino's, but all also under the main Dinoflagellates Thread. There's too many people and posts to go through.

You're not doing water changes, are you? What else have you tried?

 

[taricha]

I wish there was a way for everyone to have individual threads about trying to fight Dino's, but all also under the main Dinoflagellates Thread. There's too many people and posts to go through.

You're not doing water changes, are you? What else have you tried?

This thread needs its own sticky too.
New people occasionally wander in and ask if anyone has tried x.
Spoiler alert: yes they have, and no it doesn't work.

 

[karimwassef]

well.. this is the 100th page. Probably time for a sticky.

 

[Billybatz9]

I wish there was a way for everyone to have individual threads about trying to fight Dino's, but all also under the main Dinoflagellates Thread. There's too many people and posts to go through.

You're not doing water changes, are you? What else have you tried?

No water changes
10um Filter sock
Taking sound out weekly and h202 soak, then add back when I take top layer out when the top layer gets covered in dinos again
h202 dosage 1ml per 10 gallons for 5 days.
3 day light outs
phyto dosing daily 30 ml
adding copepods
adding live bacteria from dr tims


soo much effort and money down drain

 

[Dfee]

What are your nitrates at?

 

[karimwassef]

No water changes
10um Filter sock
Taking sound out weekly and h202 soak, then add back when I take top layer out when the top layer gets covered in dinos again
h202 dosage 1ml per 10 gallons for 5 days.
3 day light outs
phyto dosing daily 30 ml
adding copepods
adding live bacteria from dr tims


soo much effort and money down drain

why no UV?
Are you feeding more heavily to excite algae growth?

 

[PorkchopExpress]

Same boat. All my montis are bleaching. No idea why

they are probably bleaching because your lighting is too high, you have too little NO3/PO4 and alk above 9, or a combination of those...what is your phosphate at? if you have dinos, then i'm assuming you are either NO3 or PO4 limited or both...what is your alk at? dinos do weird things with alk consumption and they seem to keep NO3/PO4 really low/unreadable, at least in my experience

the times i've had dino blooms my alk consumption drops drastically, my NO3 or PO4 or both become undetectable, and i start losing sps

 

[Billybatz9]

what are your nitrates at?

0

 

[Billybatz9]

they are probably bleaching because your lighting is too high, you have too little NO3/PO4 and alk above 9, or a combination of those...what is your phosphate at? if you have dinos, then i'm assuming you are either NO3 or PO4 limited or both...what is your alk at? dinos do weird things with alk consumption and they seem to keep NO3/PO4 really low/unreadable, at least in my experience

the times i've had dino blooms my alk consumption drops drastically, my NO3 or PO4 or both become undetectable, and i start losing sps

I dose calcium and alk every night. Alk is at 11. Could this be fueling them?

 

[Billybatz9]

why no UV?
Are you feeding more heavily to excite algae growth?

I have SPS. I am not sure if algae growth will kill my sps corals especially with red slime building up.I had red slime building up a lot, used chemical clean, all gone, then dino explosion. About 4 weeks ago id say.

 

[Dfee]

You won't see Dino's reduce til those nitrates go up. Feed 6 times a day if you have to.

Alk shouldn't fuel Dino's. But like Porkchop said, you will have to dose less because corals will be consuming less because of the Dino presence.

 

[karimwassef]

I have SPS and I run UV nightly.

I also feed heavily and run a chaeto refugium and ATS. It's like kick starting the lifecycle.

Red Slime is a worry... it's my ongoing pain too, but it's not clear what causes it. Light, flow, nutrients, etc... I use high flow to keep it at bay, but it lingers in the corners.

ATS and GFO seems to be keeping it under control in the DT.

 

[Billybatz9]

I have SPS and I run UV nightly.

I also feed heavily and run a chaeto refugium and ATS. It's like kick starting the lifecycle.

Red Slime is a worry... it's my ongoing pain too, but it's not clear what causes it. Light, flow, nutrients, etc... I use high flow to keep it at bay, but it lingers in the corners.

ATS and GFO seems to be keeping it under control in the DT.

What UV do you run? I have a biocube 29 so it's hard to run ats

 

[Billybatz9]

You won't see Dino's reduce til those nitrates go up. Feed 6 times a day if you have to.

Alk shouldn't fuel Dino's. But like Porkchop said, you will have to dose less because corals will be consuming less because of the Dino presence.

What nitrate target should I be aiming for?

 

[karimwassef]

I got a coral life turbo twist 12x because it's compact. It's 36W, so I have to pass the water very slowly (200gph) through it.

If I were to do it again, I'd go with a 110W with a much higher flow rate.

 

[Dfee]

What nitrate target should I be aiming for?

Anything really. It's going to be hard to do.