Found ONE dinoflagellate thing. What now?

[raditude]

Hey all, I'm new here but I've been reading posts on here for a very long time.

Anyway, I found one of those stupid dinoflagellates on a piece of my live rock. As far as I can see, that was the only one. I took a turkey baster and got that sucker off the rock before it killed my snails. Now the real question is, am I in for a world of pain? What the heck should I do now?

Setup is as follows~
Biocube 14g nano reef
Max 8 hours of light per day
All parameters are in check
25-30% water changes every week with distiller water
1 1/2" live sand substrate, siphoned each week
10 pounds live rock
1 green hammer coral
1 green candycane
1 Duncan coral
2 clownies
1 fire goby
1 blue legged hermie
1 mini red hermie
3 Astraea snails

I don't even know what to do. I'm honestly very upset about this because my setup is so beautiful. Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks!

Added note: I just treated my rock for aiptasia. Seems to have worked.

 

[Quiet_Ivy]

Hey all, I'm new here but I've been reading posts on here for a very long time.

Anyway, I found one of those stupid dinoflagellates on a piece of my live rock. As far as I can see, that was the only one. I took a turkey baster and got that sucker off the rock before it killed my snails. Now the real question is, am I in for a world of pain? What the heck should I do now?

I don't even know what to do. I'm honestly very upset about this because my setup is so beautiful. Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks!

Added note: I just treated my rock for aiptasia. Seems to have worked.

Don't panic! Odds are you're fine.

What did you treat the aiptasia with?

If you got all of the patch off your rock with one go with a turkey baster, that wasn't dinos. I have the stuff, and it's really gooey and doesn't suction up easily. Could've been cyano, diatoms.. If it comes back, try to get a picture. Lots of experts on here will be able to id it.

hth
ivy

 

[Ron Reefman]

dinoflagellate are very, VERY small and you wouldn't be able to see just one in your tank. They form big colonies and cover the sand or glass in your tank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoflagellate

I'm not sure what you actually found? Next time try to take a picture and help will be much better able to give you quality advise.

BTW, welcome to RC. I'm originally from Michigan. Misspent much of my youth drag racing on Woodward Ave just NW of Detroit. LOL!

 

[raditude]

Thanks for the quick replies!

I treated my aiptasia with aiptasia-x. It left a ton of debris in my tank so I did a water change afterward. I have a couple new baby ones growing and I'll zap those soon as well.

It's hard to describe what this thing was. It was a tall boogery (for the lack of a better word) fleshy thing with a bubble on top. There was only one and I don't have any slimey stuff growing. Now I really have no idea what it was. ��

I'm keeping an eye on that area but so far there was legitimately just one floaty booger with a bubble. I was able to blow it off my lr and suck it up with a turkey baster. Lol it looked like a Dino, but there was just one little Dino dude.

 

[raditude]

dinoflagellate are very, VERY small and you wouldn't be able to see just one in your tank. They form big colonies and cover the sand or glass in your tank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoflagellate

I'm not sure what you actually found? Next time try to take a picture and help will be much better able to give you quality advise.

BTW, welcome to RC. I'm originally from Michigan. Misspent much of my youth drag racing on Woodward Ave just NW of Detroit. LOL!

Thank you! I'm actually about 20 minutes away from the Royal Oak/Ferndale Woodward area! Dream cruise, anyone? Lol

 

[Quiet_Ivy]

Thanks for the quick replies!
It's hard to describe what this thing was. It was a tall boogery (for the lack of a better word) fleshy thing with a bubble on top. There was only one and I don't have any slimey stuff growing. Now I really have no idea what it was. ��

I'm keeping an eye on that area but so far there was legitimately just one floaty booger with a bubble. I was able to blow it off my lr and suck it up with a turkey baster. Lol it looked like a Dino, but there was just one little Dino dude.

This is a pretty new tank? If you had live rock/sand there are probably 50 things it could've been. A lot of corals make mucous-y strands when they are irritated, maybe part of an aiptasia escaped, cyano can look like a lot of things. Individual dinoflagellates are invisible, so you can't really have one of them. Well, you *can*, but you'd never know.


hth
ivy