Keys to beating dinoflagellates
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Dack77
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20 20,
Your picture for me is too blurry. I cant really make out what it is. I would try and get a slightly better picture. Maybe try one that is zoomed in like your previous photo and one that has a bit bigger field of view so we can get a better look.
I think I took a photo of the stuff I had, I will try and find it when I get home from work so others can see what I was dealing with. I used the article referenced above as my identification and then mixed and matched what I needed to get rid of them.
Your picture for me is too blurry. I cant really make out what it is. I would try and get a slightly better picture. Maybe try one that is zoomed in like your previous photo and one that has a bit bigger field of view so we can get a better look.
I think I took a photo of the stuff I had, I will try and find it when I get home from work so others can see what I was dealing with. I used the article referenced above as my identification and then mixed and matched what I needed to get rid of them.
My camera stinks, as do my photography skills. That's the best pic I could get, and as of today it's gone (just scrubbed the rocks yesterday). No idea if it'll stay 'gone', but based on past history it'll be back. 
But it looked pretty much like iwishtofish's picture, and that doesn't look like the cyano I'm familiar with.
But it looked pretty much like iwishtofish's picture, and that doesn't look like the cyano I'm familiar with.
law086
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Whatever I have doesn't have those stringy type things on it. It's just a brown / rust colored mat, with some o2 bubbles in it. If I blow it with a turkey baster, they mostly all blow off, but are back the next day.
I'll try to post some pictures later.
Man.. these things suck big time.
I'll try to post some pictures later.
Man.. these things suck big time.
uhuru
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jonathan - yup red tide is caused by dinoflagellates, consumption of seafood during a bloom has been known to cause human fatalities (clupeoptoxism) as some of these dinos carry palytoxin or other toxins
20 20 - when you turn off all your circulation what happens? does it cloud up around the areas it is growing?
20 20 - when you turn off all your circulation what happens? does it cloud up around the areas it is growing?
jnarowe
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20 20: If it doesn't blow off, I doubt it's dinos. It is probably just nuisance algae and the fix for that can be very different than the fix for dinos, although I have red that increased pH can help with some algaes. If it is back when you get home, I take that all back! :lol:
law086: Looks like you got 'em dude. Read the article linked above by Randy. Try testing for silicates as well. I would stop doing water changes and swap out carbon every 3 - 4 days. Try the lights out too. This seems to lower the dinos ability to multiply so that when you attack them, they can't come back as strong.
law086: Looks like you got 'em dude. Read the article linked above by Randy. Try testing for silicates as well. I would stop doing water changes and swap out carbon every 3 - 4 days. Try the lights out too. This seems to lower the dinos ability to multiply so that when you attack them, they can't come back as strong.
Just tested the water, ca at 430, alk 10.8 dKH, PH 8.20, amonium/nitrite/nitrate all 0. My phosphate test kit must be old, water should have changed to some shade of blue, but ended up a slight yellow.
uhuru
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20 20 - you should see a rust tinted cloud around the dinos when you turn off the circulation. it's a very delicate cloud and as soon as you blow at it even a little bit it disintegrates.
At the end of the battle I did have dinos that would not blow off. It was the short thin hairs like yours and stuck to the bare bottom and the panes of the tank. Some of it stuck to the pointed branches of my birdsnest. It was the last of the dinos to go probably about week 5 or 6 of dosing zeovit is when I noticed that stuff finally dying off.
At the end of the battle I did have dinos that would not blow off. It was the short thin hairs like yours and stuck to the bare bottom and the panes of the tank. Some of it stuck to the pointed branches of my birdsnest. It was the last of the dinos to go probably about week 5 or 6 of dosing zeovit is when I noticed that stuff finally dying off.
nismo driver
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20 20 that doesnt sound like dinos your dealing with.
when i got home tonight after a normal light cycle it wasnt too bad, maybe half as bad as it was the last time i ran a full day of lighting.
if i cut all circulation i get the cloud of floating white stringy nasty stuff floating around the tank.
when i got home tonight after a normal light cycle it wasnt too bad, maybe half as bad as it was the last time i ran a full day of lighting.
if i cut all circulation i get the cloud of floating white stringy nasty stuff floating around the tank.
uhuru
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- the stuff reproduces incredibly fast, you should be able to see growth within 5 minutes without circulation to break it up
- I know you're just being humorous but honestly I don't know where that belief comes from that zeovit is expensive, I have an 85g system I'm dosing it on and I only dose like 1 - 3 drops of the additives and not even everyday - IME, now if you have a 500g tank that's a different story but then again EVERYTHING is expensive in that range
- I know you're just being humorous but honestly I don't know where that belief comes from that zeovit is expensive, I have an 85g system I'm dosing it on and I only dose like 1 - 3 drops of the additives and not even everyday - IME, now if you have a 500g tank that's a different story but then again EVERYTHING is expensive in that range
GoldeneyeRet
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Zoom,
I feel your pain.
Keep up the fight you will find something that works!!
Good luck
GER
I feel your pain.
Keep up the fight you will find something that works!!
Good luck
GER
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