I did It everyday usually around 11am my tank is a 90 with rock and sump water I assumed it was around 80 gals of water so I dosed 8ml I didn't start slow or anything like that I just went ahead and put wht I read was safe to put
serious dinos algae problem
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I did It everyday usually around 11am my tank is a 90 with rock and sump water I assumed it was around 80 gals of water so I dosed 8ml I didn't start slow or anything like that I just went ahead and put wht I read was safe to put
GroktheCube
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Macroalgae and coralline algae are not as sensitive to peroxide ime. That said, if you really want to keep it, why not toss it in a bucket of tank water with a bubbler for a few days?
cichlid nutz
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One of the ways H2O2 fights dino's is by hyper-oxygenating the water. You can also help fight it by using a bubbler with a micro-bubble tip in your sump. I would not recommend this in your tank as the bubbles will annoy your corals.
Also be careful of "bursting" the bubbles underwater. Let them come to the surface and pop. Oxygen kills the din's but if they burst under the surface, it can spread them farther.
And I also just started H2O2 dosing and am on 3rd day. 1ml per 10 gallons is the dosage I am using also. If you can get a UV sterilizer, will help also.
Also be careful of "bursting" the bubbles underwater. Let them come to the surface and pop. Oxygen kills the din's but if they burst under the surface, it can spread them farther.
And I also just started H2O2 dosing and am on 3rd day. 1ml per 10 gallons is the dosage I am using also. If you can get a UV sterilizer, will help also.
Also have a hippo and he did fine also feed a pinch of pellets once a day
phillrodrigo
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Glad to see the hippo is still alive. I see your fighting dinos also. Has anyone tried dosing h2o2 while carbon dosing
I battled dino's for months man. There are so many different species that what works for some, will not work for others so it is really trial and error. I went through peroxide dosing, blacking out, no water changes, etc. No real affect as they always came back. What worked for me, and they are completely gone now, was raising my alk. I tested and it was around 5dKH! Raised it up to ~10 using Kent's Tech M and haven't seen a dino in a month. Just another idea to try in the arsenal.
i would advise catching dinos as early as possible. do not let it grow to epic proportions!
i had some recently, i would call it a "mid level" outbreak that occured over a period of about 5 days. once i realized what i was dealing with i did a 3 day lights out, added carbon/gfo in a reactor, crank'd up the skimmer and did daily small water changes. the water changes were really just a side affect of using airline tubing to suction out as much dinos as could every day for about two weeks. i refused to run that water through a sock and return it to the tank (i don't have alot of faith in that!) and i'm not convinced that "no" water changes helps to defeat them. in my experience, the more wc, the better in all situations.
anyway after a couple of weeks, they were gone. this was about 8 weeks ago, and i haven't seen any since.
if you wait until they take over, it would be much harder, i'm sure...
some have had success with algeafix.
i would say siphon, siphon, siphon with an airline tube. you can siphon with an airline tube for like an hour and only remove a couple gallons of water...it is going to have to be every day but eventually you should be able to siphon more than can grow.
i had some recently, i would call it a "mid level" outbreak that occured over a period of about 5 days. once i realized what i was dealing with i did a 3 day lights out, added carbon/gfo in a reactor, crank'd up the skimmer and did daily small water changes. the water changes were really just a side affect of using airline tubing to suction out as much dinos as could every day for about two weeks. i refused to run that water through a sock and return it to the tank (i don't have alot of faith in that!) and i'm not convinced that "no" water changes helps to defeat them. in my experience, the more wc, the better in all situations.
anyway after a couple of weeks, they were gone. this was about 8 weeks ago, and i haven't seen any since.
if you wait until they take over, it would be much harder, i'm sure...
some have had success with algeafix.
i would say siphon, siphon, siphon with an airline tube. you can siphon with an airline tube for like an hour and only remove a couple gallons of water...it is going to have to be every day but eventually you should be able to siphon more than can grow.
phillrodrigo
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My scopas is eating it. There are signs this stuff is coming well there was for me anyways. Everytime I did a water change and poured the water back in the tank I would have all this stringy stuff. Had never seen dino before it didnt look like a algea had no idea what it was. But I was trying to get rid of this unknown stringy stuff. A few weeks later it started growing on the sand bed and was brown. Thats when I finally figured it out.
foundnemo11
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I fought these for a long time..
What worked for me was a blackout
3 days no light ( some people wrap their tanks I didn't )
After that I did a waterchange and vacuumed all of the algae
A few days later I had it growing back a little so I did another blackout
Then a waterchange
No more Dino's till this day
I did about 20% water change each time
What worked for me was a blackout
3 days no light ( some people wrap their tanks I didn't )
After that I did a waterchange and vacuumed all of the algae
A few days later I had it growing back a little so I did another blackout
Then a waterchange
No more Dino's till this day
I did about 20% water change each time
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