dino

My coral quarantine thing is currently going through Dino’s. I did a black out and I’ve been adding beneficial bacteria every day. Today I vacuumed out as much as I could off of the egg crate and will do so again in another day or two. If I scrub the coral skeletons on my torches would it be...

Hello, I am looking to see if this is Dino? This is in my Coral quarantine tank and I was getting ready to add coral to my display tank and I want to know if this is Dino and what your recommendation is to beat it? Also I assume it’s a bad idea to add the coral to my display? Clean them and then...

Hi everyone, Have some algae growing on my back wall for the past few weeks. Phosphates read 0.00 on hanna, so I'm thinking Dino maybe? Nitrates also around 5ppm What do you think?

The role of iron in the growth of dinoflagellates is well characterized, so nothing written here is novel- I simply wanted to validate a pet theory of mine and provide documentation in case anyone finds this post of any interest later. I set up an experiment* and dosed experimental containers...

I have been battling dinoflagellates for awhile now and feel like im starting to beat them but want to make sure. This is a sample from my tank on april 24th. I know these are dinos but when I took a sample today I didn't see these but seen what I thought looked like little copepods. I'm not...

Hello, I am looking for some feedback on SPS corals (and tank in general) after battling a dino outbreak. 1 year old tank (112 gallon)....full parameters below. Had a substantial dino outbreak/plague. Humbling but rolled with the punches as I knew that, being new to the hobby, there would be...

Greetings! I have an established 37 gallon reef tank that recently had an outbreak of dinoflagellates (Ostreopsis). Unfortunately, the tank also has a seal that is going bad (developing some larger bubbles), and so I'm using these circumstances as an opportunity to upgrade to a larger 130.4...

Dinos after filtering clear water through coffee filter

Now that I've finally gotten rid of the turf algae in my tank, I'm now battling my first real outbreak of dinos in my 16 month old tank. I think it probably has to do with switching over to the Zeovit system 4 months ago, and having an ULN system not allowing the Dinos anything for competition...

Well I’m having a little issue. Seems it has gotten out of hand pretty quick. Can you tell what this is from the pics? I don’t see any air bubbles at all, anywhere. So hoping not Dino’s. Was thinking Cyano but chemiclean isn’t doing anything to it.

Alright Guys & Girls, like the title says I have encountered a new roadblock in the hobby. This thread will show you guys every step I take to battle this annoying pest and hopefully after I win this war you guys could look back to this thread to follow my steps and not make all the mistakes I...

Hello everyone, as the title indicates I need help identifying what kind of dinoflagellates am I fighting here. Thanks for the help

Interested in hearing what others are doing! Do others maintain a full time coral QT or do you just set one up for the 76day period when you receive new batches of coral? I have been maintaining a full time 29g coral/invert QT for the past year. It has been headaches to say the least... It...

I have been having an ongoing problem. I keep getting a green and sometime brown stuff on my sand. Currently it is green, growing some hairs and there are bubble starting to form. I will give you a little history. This has been an on going problem. When I had the skimz cheato reactor, I had...

My tank is about 4-5 months old and this problem seems to never go away.

We have had an outbreak of Dinoflagellates...which we had originally thought was just diatom (fairly new reef, 1.5 months old). TL;DR don't over feed your new reef!!! (I know better too, that's the worst part :() First misdiagnosis lead us to Vibrant to attempt to control the alleged diatom...

About 2 weeks ago i noticed i had some cyano bacteria, so i ordered chemiclean and that took care of things. Then last sunday i noticed some more (or so i thought) coming up so i treated it with chemiclean again. The first time it was cyano but this time im not sure. Ive asked a friend and he...

I will log my progress on this thread so I can see what I did and what the result will be when it's all said and done. Background I have been battling Dino for a while now (8+ months). I think I have an idea where it came from. I believe, (I could be wrong though), it came with a Pink...