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  1. A Dinoflagellate Treatment Guide

    A Dinoflagellate Treatment Guide

    As the title suggests, this is intended as a short guide on what to do when you suspect dinoflagellates are trying to overtake your system. It is an attempt to boil down the protocols discussed across 11,000 posts in this "Are you Tired" thread along with thousands of other dino threads. I did...
  2. Z

    How to (at least temporarily) get dino(amphidinium) off frags/coral?

    So I've got dino, I was out of the country for 4 months unexpectedly and had to ask my brother to take care of the tank, of course I couldn't ask for all the care a reef tank needs, which led to me getting home and finding both dino and cyano. I've already done a lot of reading on dino, I'm...
  3. D

    Help with formulated plan to beat dinos.

    so I’m currently battling dinos and this is my plan of action using Brightwell Aquatic's NeoPhos and NeoNitro. both nitrate and phosphate have bottomed out and are at 0ppm. tank lights have been off for 2 days and dinos have died down very slightly. temp has been raised to 79 degrees also. can a...
  4. S

    Dinos?

    Are these are diatoms or dinos ? it is a new tank however I used some rock from my old tank and most is dry rock. here’s the photos , I also used the towel method. I have a microscope coming tomorrow.
  5. V

    Dino’s and should I be worried?

    Hi again. So my tank is around 4 months old now and been going through all the uglies. I am happy taking things slow and really not bothered about the uglies all that much. It recently went through a massive GHA bloom which I mostly left to its thing while manually removing some and it’s now...
  6. GP0801

    Brown algae and bubbles suddenly all over my tank

    I'm pretty new to the aquarium thing but everything seemed to be going so well the past few months and all of a sudden today the tank and equipment is covered in this brown stuff and bubbles. There were even patches of sand flying around because the bubbles were carrying them through the water...
  7. wonderbassist

    Cyano/Dino outbreak

    I’ve got some microscope pictures! I have a Cyanobacteria outbreak, it’s starting to grow over some corals. I used chemiclean 2 weeks ago, did the 20% water change after and have continued with my weekly 10% maintenance changes. The cyano came back way worse, I’ve also been dosing vibrant. I see...
  8. R

    Diatom? Dino?

    Hi my tank is ~3 wks old, and recently seeing growth of these brown stuff. Small patches has showed up a few days after i had turned on the light (which is about a week ago) and i think its growing a lot faster these 2 days. I would like to think its diatoms cuz my params are Salinity: 1.025...
  9. Z

    Leaving on a night light? During a intentional tank blackout.

    TL:DR can/should I leave a very low wattage "night light" on during a blackout to reduce the likelihood of my fish from accidentally swimming into an anemone? So I have, something (algae/Dinos/whatever*) that I am planning on doing a 3 day blackout for. Last time I did a blackout I lost a...
  10. F

    Dinos quick question ❓

    I am battling dinos currently and just wanted to ask. Is my answer as simple as I think? I am thinking all I have to do is dose phosphate to get rid of them. My current parameters are: Temp 74-75 Salt 1.025 Amonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrate 10 Phos 0 Cal 400 Mag 1340 Alk 8.0
  11. M

    Best bottle bacteria for Dino’s

    So I’ve been dealing with Dino’s for a while and I want to know what’s the best bottled bacteria to use while battling Dino’s. I used microbacter7 but don’t really know how effective it is.
  12. O

    Name that Algae!

    We’ll here we are again with another episode of, “Name that Algae”! I apologize ahead of time for the terrible picture quality, but it’s the best I can do. It’s almost like a hair algae it’s dark green and doesn’t come off easily. This is also coupled with red slime. Best guess I have is Dinos...
  13. diamondreef

    Dino? Best way to treat?

    Just noticed these small silver balls and a reddish brown film .. more on the back of my rock. How do I stop this from spreading!?
  14. DJTJ

    Are these Dinos?

    Hey everyone, my tank has been cycling for around two months now and I have noticed that the water has become super cloudy over the past week. There are these little brown nubs that form a web over the sand. Are they Dinos? I had three fish ready from my 30 day quarantine and was wanting to put...
  15. thatone08

    No diggity, no doubt, it’s dinos!

    Hi, 2 month old tank, 20 gallon Red Sea Max nano. Started with dry Carib sea life rock, and fritz turbo start to cycle. About a month completely dark, to avoid a really bad ugly stage(or so I thought). Fast forward fish, a handful of corals, lights on. 2 weeks later, what looks to be diatoms...
  16. I

    Adding Fish/coral with active Dino outbreak

    Hi all, just a post as I can’t find much on it online. Is it possible to add new fish or corals to a tank that has a Dino outbreak? just curious thanks
  17. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    Fallow, What to feed tank?

    I current have 1 CBS and 10 cerith Snails in my display that I have begun to fallow. I have some Coraline algae in there too. I'd like to eradicate my spionid worms aswell, but in order to do that I'd need to have no food come to the bottom. Another thing is if I have no nitrates...won't...
  18. A

    Questions about prorocentrum

    Hi everyone, I've posted multiple threads of my battle with prorocentrum dinoflagellates, and I believe I am in the later stages of the outbreak (knock on wood). Anyways I did end up removing the sand, and I don't regret it because I like the way bare bottoms look. Now I know that prorocentrum...
  19. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    How toxic are my Dino's to my fish?

    I have small cell amphidinium dinoflagellates in my tank. Was wondering what affect the Dino's have on my fish as I am currently not running carbon. My tang seems to be breathing a little bit faster than normal. Could it be from the Dino's toxins?
  20. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    Nitrates bottoming out, no phosphates.

    So...I've never been able to detect phosphates in my tank, it's been a little more than 3 months now. I am currently at 2 nitrates, was 5 last week. I am starting to see small cell amphidinium Dino's starting to spread. Should I increase feeding? Or let it be? Or any other suggestions would be...
  21. A

    Getting worse before it gets better?

    Hello, I have posted earlier threads of me fighting dinos, and I’m taking all the steps that I really can at the moment. Phosphates up, phyto, Uv, blackouts, h202, manual removal, and lastly silica. Here’s the problem, the dinos have moved from the sandbedbfurther up onto the rocks, and are...
  22. C

    Is thiz dinos?

    Just started dosing phosphate, and will begin dino X tonight as I believe its dino algae? Battling few months now, and tried feeding heavier, lowering phosphates originally with GFO, and manual removal. Covering all rocks and coral ATM, so at this point it's time for dino x. Hanna phosphates...
  23. A

    Dinoflagellate ID help

    Hey y’all, just took a microscope video of some dinos, but I can’t quite make out what species. Can anyone identify? PS: videos usually work on a laptop or desktop from my experience. #reefsquad
  24. S

    Second Opinions Never Hurt - Dinos?

    Hi, all! First time posting but here’s another algae ID post. I don’t believe they’re diatoms. They sorta look like dinos but don’t have the characteristic trapped air bubbles. It’s brown, it covers the rocks, tank walls, and only the sand that is in the light. What do you guys think? Tank has...
  25. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    These may not be diatoms anymore...

    Are these diatoms still or could they be something different, or are diatoms dying and reforming? I'm confused. I'm at about.the 1 month, 1 week mark since putting biospira and first fish in. Some of this algae is Dark brown, some very light brown. Some rust colored (a yellowish rust) like...
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