Dinoflagellates.

I just bought 5 lbs of indonesian living rock and poured the old skimmate in the tank to nourish and inoculate the system with new life. Happily one week later I noticed that the snots where turning white and when looking on the microscope this is what I saw.

I checked it out day by day and 2/3 days later wasn't able to spot any moving ostreopsis cell. Now it is almost a month without these scoundrel critters.

I wish I could send you some water but I am not sure it will work with all kind of dinoflagellates (I presume that most of them)
 
Just a heads up, has anyone tried ZeoBak from Corralin Zucht?

I started dosing about a week ago, I feel like it's having an effect, I'm seeing less of the brown poop colored dinos in my sump, the skimmate is the same poop brown color as the dinos were and it smells awful.

Just throwing it out there, maybe someone else can try it and see if it works.
 
battling dinos

battling dinos

Hello everyone,

I am also battling dinoflagellates. I've already made the decision to remove all my rock and sand and nuke it ( bleach and muriatic acid). Is there a way I can clean my snails, hermit crabs and peppermint shrimp and reuse them in my tank after everything is thoroughly cleaned and not chance dinos getting in the new tank?

I currently have a hospital tank that I cured ich on my 3 fish that I was thinking about putting my CUC and a couple corals in while I nuke the rock and clean the tank.
 
I nuked the tank and did a hard freshwater and H2O2 dip to my corals and rocks and ostreopsis came back one week later.

I suggest you buy a small tank to quarantine your snails and shrimps for a long time (won't need a light fixture, skimmer or filter, just a little bit of GAC and a small pump to circulate the water).

Good luck
 
I'm convinced that the cure to dino infestation is algae. Allow algae to recover its place and then let crabs and snails get back to eating it.

Just keep the circulation high to avoid cyano, but let nutrients rise to cultivate a GHA fuzz.
 
karimwassef said:
I'm convinced that the cure to dino infestation is algae. Allow algae to recover its place and then let crabs and snails get back to eating it.

Just keep the circulation high to avoid cyano, but let nutrients rise to cultivate a GHA fuzz.
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I don't know if cure is the appropriate term, but I do think this is at least part of the answer in terms of keeping it controlled like it normally would be. Higher algal diversity, some slight level of nutrients and higher fauna diversity seem like the way to go for longer term control.

Interestingly enough, in the course of breaking my tank down, I set up a holding tank for about a month. This tank was mostly neglected, had about 2 small water changes and plenty of nutrients. All dino mats that were present before shriveled and disappeared within a week. I didn't take the chance of it being completely gone, so I tossed what I had left, but it was definitely an interesting observation.
 
karimwassef said:
I'm convinced that the cure to dino infestation is algae. Allow algae to recover its place and then let crabs and snails get back to eating it.

Just keep the circulation high to avoid cyano, but let nutrients rise to cultivate a GHA fuzz.
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Completely agree!


Amphiprion said:
Interestingly enough, in the course of breaking my tank down, I set up a holding tank for about a month. This tank was mostly neglected, had about 2 small water changes and plenty of nutrients. All dino mats that were present before shriveled and disappeared within a week. I didn't take the chance of it being completely gone, so I tossed what I had left, but it was definitely an interesting observation.
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I had similar results with a small holding tank as well. I would place dino infested rocks into the small tank and they could not take over. They would eventually disappear. This is what led me to try the same approach on my big tank. It worked and continues to work. It also turns out to be the simplest, cheapest, and easiest solution. I've spent hundreds of dollars on equipment and "potions" fighting them when the best solution was to do almost nothing.
 
I can't thank everybody enough. This is by far the best thread on the internet concerning dinoflagellates. Tomorrow I am going to move my CUC into a 10 gallon tank and just keep them there for a long time and observe. Then I am going to nuke my rock to make sure it is absolutely clean, clean my tank, all equipment, pipes and such and start over. Thankfully my fish have been in a hospital tank for 7 weeks due to ich, I still have my semi picassos and 1 spot foxface. I am positive they are 100 percent free of any infection or sickness. They have been looking perfect for the last month.
 
If your dino is ostreopsis, then I can confirm antibiotics will kill it. So running some in your QT might be helpful
 
Thanks Pants. I'm not in a rush to know what works for the inverts but if you could let us know what antibiotic you used and at what concentration that would be great.
 
Pretty sure that I have dinos in my 180g. Attached are a few pics I took under 800x, just wanted to get a 100% confirmation on it before I start treatment. Can anyone identify these pics? Thanks
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