O3 and Dinoflagellates

[Rploaded]

I recently had a small breakout of dino's "the dreaded brown bubbly strings" brought on from an outside acquisition, that I did not follow my own procedures on. I ignored it for 2 weeks and finally after they were hanging off my Xenia and the back glass was covered in it I had to make a drastic move.

I was able to kill this by running my tank at an ORP level of 400-415. For 72 hours.

I am not sure why this worked as rapidly as it did but I was a shocked it went away so easily.

Is ozone that effective at clearing up Dino's. I know they plague many hobbyists and I was shocked that I was able to keep my lighting in place and kill it off.

I was wondering if anyone knows why ozone is so effective? Or was I just lucky?

This is not a level I would ever run my aquarium at normally but all corals and fish came out fine in the nano tank, although they looked a bit stressed for the duration at that high level. All corals stayed closed except for my SPS! Go figure on that.

I run GFO so phosphate is 0
No other detectable issues.

PH 8.25-8.45 daily cycle
Alk 3.30 meql
Ca 428
Mag 1420

Thoughts? As of today they have been gone for over a week.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I'm surprised that ozone will have much effect.

How were you using the ozone?

 

[Rploaded]

I'm surprised that ozone will have much effect.

How were you using the ozone?

Its entering via the venturi on the skimmer. I did use a hose on the skimmer pump intake and sucked all the crap off the rocks directly into the skimmer.

Perhaps this method just killed them on contact.....?

Perhaps they just starved in my tank as there really are not an abundance of excess nutrients for them...

I don't know..... Randy you were supposed to send me an award and write about this in science monthly! My whole parade has been cancelled!

:lmao:

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Hey, if it works, we'll be sure to give you an award.

Maybe we'll call it the dead dinos award :lol:

 

[Rploaded]

Hey, if it works, we'll be sure to give you an award.

Maybe we'll call it the dead dinos award :lol:

Lol, saving that image...... I know some have had luck using hydrogen peroxide which I would suspect would raise orp..... Perhaps there is something to that......

You should do an experiment of some sort using real science.....