Horrible Dino Outbreak

[M Woodhill]

I myself became very allergic this summer so I went home for about 1 and half months. I left the tank to a buddy that doesn't know this business very well. All she knows is that never letting the storage tank run dry.

When I came back, gee, so horrible outbreak of dino. I siphoned and reaquascaped. the ritteri and the rbta sure **** it off.

However, they both survived the outbreak. Some corals and my resplendent anthias and yellow tang jumped! What a pain in the ***. The sunburst anthias stays in contrast--good.

The ritteri has grown to its full. It lost half of its tentacles when I purchased it.

 

[M Woodhill]

Sorry quick click.

Here is the red and green bta.

 

[OrionN]

Very nice anemones. I am fighting Dino myself. Fortunately my Dino is not toxic to the other animals in my tank.
I don't think there is any sure way. Zooxanthellae in our corals, clams and anemones are Dino. This servery limit our ability to kill Dino without bleaching and killing our corals and anemones. For me suction with water change, skimmer and increase circulation is the only way to limit the impact of Dino in one of my tank. I isolate equipments used, feeding cups, pipettes to keep this horrible Dino from spread to my other systems.

 

[M Woodhill]

I guess I should feed the two anemone a little. Haven't fed them ever since months ago when I got them home.

 

[M Woodhill]

Very nice anemones. I am fighting Dino myself. Fortunately my Dino is not toxic to the other animals in my tank.
I don't think there is any sure way. Zooxanthellae in our corals, clams and anemones are Dino. This servery limit our ability to kill Dino without bleaching and killing our corals and anemones. For me suction with water change, skimmer and increase circulation is the only way to limit the impact of Dino in one of my tank. I isolate equipments used, feeding cups, pipettes to keep this horrible Dino from spread to my other systems.

any good way to siphon? i often suck the tentacles into the tube. then the ritteri totally freak out

 

[OrionN]

When I suction near the anemone, I just careful control flow (hand control). Cut off suction with hand. I irritated my anemone with the tube, he contracted a little then I suction near the foot.

 

[b0bab0ey]

I fought (and won) a pretty bad dinos outbreak in my old tank. I would siphon it out, ran GFO and all that. But I think what really turned the tide was when I started going lights out for 3 consecutive days, once a month, every month. I would even cover the outside glass with black garbage bags to keep any ambient light out. It would always take a few days for my corals/GBTA to bounce back, but they always did.

It didn't work right away, but every month it seemed I would have less & less dinos to battle. After about 5-6 months, they were completely gone. Good luck.

 

[OrionN]

I won my Dion outbreak also. It is a 30 g tank so I just change 33%-50% of the water weekly, sucking Dino out as much as I can, other than that, I just maintain the tank as usual. Fair skimming and adequate feeding for my 4 fish, (one cube of mysis almost every day PM for my Marine Betta and pair of Onyx and flake food in AM) The Marine Betta just pick at the rock.

 

[M Woodhill]

I've started dosin Ultra Algae X

Both anemone reacts normal to it and it does work on dinos. it's retreatin rather apparently after first 2 dosin. but bad news cyano stroke back, replacin dinos

I'm shuttin the system down after the cycle then renovate it to zeo system