Help: Dinoflagellates
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sneeyatch
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It's been about a month and am 100% dino and cyano free, and I've also done waterchanges during the past month, so I think that battle is done. I even went straight to my normal photoperiod - Everything finally looks good again. I had a small flairup of cyano about 2 weeks ago, but the peroxide dosing makes short work of it.
Best $.65 spent in the hobby thus far!!
Best $.65 spent in the hobby thus far!!
Rodrigo_BG
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where do you guys buy H2O2?
Ycore
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Rodrigo_BG
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thanks
NICE!!! good for you man!! im glad you were able to kill those little buggers!
jkopp36
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I've been following this and several other thread for awhile now as I am slowly but surely battling my dinos with all the remedies but still not quite there. The question I'm hoping other dino battlers can help me with is what effect dinos would have on urchins. My snails have all died off because of the dinos and I need something to help keep up with other types of algae. I thought I had the dinos fought back enough to add some new snails but they didn't make it either. Maybe a hardier snail species that dinos won't kill as easily (I had mostly astrea before)? Just looking for something to take clean-up duties over that won't quickly die. TIA.
sneeyatch
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would anyone be willing to post pictures of their dinoflagellates? ive googled images and alot of different things pop up. ive heard that they are brown but i know theres also brown hair algae. just something to help ppl diagnose their tank properly.
I didn't take any pictures, but you can tell the difference. Dino's look like a brown slime / goo. Think of a messy, brown cyano infestation on steroids. It will grow long and stringy and spreads so fast...
I have a longspine urchin that was in a smaller tank that had some dino's, but that tank didn't have a plague of dino's either, just a little bit and the urchin was fine. If you're looking for an awesome cleaner (not sure how it would hold up to the dino's) go with a dolabella type sea hare. Make sure it's a dolabella. Those things eat anything.
milkman55
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I have been fighting dinos for about 4 months. It is starting to come under control after I figured out more about how it works. My belief is it started because I added a liter of Ecobak pellets to my 200 gal system, continued with my 2 cups of GFO and knocked the Nitrates (.2) and Phosphates (.02) down to near zero in "record time". Too much shock to the system all at once. If I had to do it over again, I would gradually add the pellets (like they say, nothing good come fast in this hobby). I think the pellets are doing a good job, maybe too good. I did lights out several times and withheld water changes. What I finally tried which seems to be working is turning off the GFO and letting the water "dirty up" a bit. My dino seems stalled out and not growing right now.
I added a sea hare (looked like the picture of a dalabella that I found) shortly after the outbreak started and it died after about 10 days. What I learned at that point is how toxic the dinos are for livestock. My 14 assorted fish were fine for about 3 months, but in the last month I lost my pair of sleeper gobies that shifted the sand. My theory was the dino finally built up enough in the sand that their constant shifting finally got to them. They died within a few days of each other with no ill effects. Everything else looks to be doing fine.
I added a sea hare (looked like the picture of a dalabella that I found) shortly after the outbreak started and it died after about 10 days. What I learned at that point is how toxic the dinos are for livestock. My 14 assorted fish were fine for about 3 months, but in the last month I lost my pair of sleeper gobies that shifted the sand. My theory was the dino finally built up enough in the sand that their constant shifting finally got to them. They died within a few days of each other with no ill effects. Everything else looks to be doing fine.
dan223
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Several times Ive cleared my tank of dino's in 3 days. I put fresh filter floss in a hang on filter and change it every morning. The dinos break apart and go into the water column every night and are easily filtered out. Every moring when you replace the floss youll notice its brown, full of the dino's. After 3 days they are gone and I usually ran the filter for a total of 5-6 days to be safe. They did not return either time.
