dinofillegates

I have a new tank, around 3 months old with a handful of corals and 2 Clownfish. Within the last few weeks my Nitrates and Phosphates have both dropped to 0 (using Hanna checkers for both). These Dinos started showing up recently as well. I've been dosing NeoNitro and NeoPhos trying to get my...

i have dinos in my tank, I set up a UV sterilizer turned the lights off and blacked out the tank. My concern is I have an acro coral frag, a birds nest, monte a bunch of SPS, a leather and other softies, as well as a bubbletip anemone. How long can I safely black out the tank before my coral...

I am certain that I have dinos in my tank as the sand, rocks, and glass are becoming covered in stringy algae that has a lot of bubbles wrapped up in the dinos. Will someone please help me ID what type of dino this is though and possibly give me some steps to take in order to defeat these...

Just did a water change yesterday. Got back home from work and notice this red stringy algae not sure need help identifying

Hi all, trying to figure out if I’m experiencing the start of dino’s in my system. They don’t look like dinos under the scope however they appear like them with stringy snot and looks as if they disappear when the lights go off. Hopefully the video is good enough! Thanks :)

Hello everyone, I need help to stop second guessing myself. I think I have identified the sludge in my tank as Ostreopsis Dino’s. Can anyone help me confirm? Screenshot of test results attached. Tank has been up 8 months. Thank you in advance.

This is in a 20 gallon AIO with a protein skimmer, UV sterilizer (recently added) and some matrix carbon in the back. It seems to get less apparent at night which leads me to think it's Dinos, but the microscope couldn't magnify enough to get 100% verification. Yes my Nitrate and Phos need to...

I've had a dinos outbreak in my tank, not sure what type yet, but it doesn't go into the water column at night and grows on the sand, rocks and a little on the glass. I've been cleaning up the dinos every day to every few days, but everytime I do it my corals close and get really ticked off...

I've been struggling with dino an hair algae for about a year. Sometimes it looks like it's getting better then it just blows up. I've used both vibrant and dosing peroxide on my old 40 gallon... the problem I'm having is on my 150 gallon acrylic aquarium. Would peroxide be a good option? I've...

Hi All, 400L Tank details: 1 3/4 year old. Fully stocked with coral, fish etc. Salinity: 1.025 SG PH 8.0 Alkalinity 9.3 dkH Nitrate: 9.0 ppm Phoshate: 0.12 ppm Calcium: 440 ppm Mag: 1450 ppm Started battling with Dinos ~6months ago. Dinos were confirmed from microscope. Although exact...

Hello all, I noticed some dinos about 3 weeks ago. I'm pretty sure the triggering event was me trying to really kill off some hair algae. I scrubbed rocks a whole lot, disturbed the sandbed, and my nutrients got too low. Amateur move. The system was not happy with this. Dinos quickly ensued...

My thought is this is Amphidinium. agree? Some seem to have more pronounced beaks than others. Looking at the display tank, there are some small areas of mats on sand in certain areas. Some long strands of dinos that cling to corals and glass. 2 pictures here 2 videos here Video 1 (I...

I had a brown/green algae problem a while back that was completely eradicated but now it’s coming back looking different - it has bubbles. I did increase light in the tank to help my corals regrow after the past algae bloom, since i dimmed the light for a few weeks to control the algae. My...

Hey all! I have had my tank up an running for almost a year now and for the past few months I have had a bad case of what I think to be diatoms or dinos. Both my phosphates and nitrates are a little over 0 (API test, but it's the best I have right now). I recently acquired a TDS meter and the...

What I thought were Diatoms turned out to be Dinos on most of substrate and tank walls. I bought a microscope to verify. Photos and video are attached. These were my parameters last night Before I dosed Phosphate per some research cause they were bottomed out. Temp 81 Salinity 1.026 Ca 340 KH 8...

Hi all, I recently set up a new 30 gallon reef tank and am trying to figure out what to do. For some background, I have a 13.5 which I bought a rock that had 3 awesome nems on and placed it in my tank knowing the previous owner had dinos. This sparked the dinos in my 13.5 which I have recently...

I am planing on using a microscope in an attempt to identify the type of dinos that I have. In your experience, for what type of Dinos does Sillicate dosing work?

Hello to all, I have a 2 month old 10 gal tank with soft corals and a small clownfish. I had some algae that I was allowing to grow and it started dying off. I tested and nitrates slowly went from 10ppm to 0pmm in less than I week. I believe that now dinos are showing up (thats why I preferred...

Hi all, I’ve noticed an increase of brown patches on my sand bed. 5 days ago my phosphate was 0.22, today my phosphate is 0.07. Do you think it’s dino’s or diatoms? Not the clearest shot but hopefully you’ll be able to tell?

I finally beat Dinos - hopefully, for good this time. After trying several methods from raising nutrients, chemical treatments, and water changes I invested in a UV sterilizer. I was a bit hesitant investing in equipment and was ready to scrap the project and start fresh - thank goodness I...

https://youtube.com/shorts/MHGivRhw3hw?feature=share Hi guys! Can anyone help me ID what dinos I'm dealing with? Based on the circular structure in the center of the cell and the symmetrical oval shape I'm guessing Prorocentrum. Also, is it possible that I have 2 kinds of dinos? Some of them...

Hi everyone! I am looking for some help to eliminate or at least cut back the Dino problem in my tank. A little background, I have a 15 gallon nano reef that is around 8 months old. I am running an AI prime as the light, no skimmer, and a fluvial UV sterilizer in line with a Oaze 30 gallon...

Hey everyone! I have a Innovative marine fusion pro 25 lagoon. It just finished cycling a couple weeks ago, i finally noticed some algae other then the ones i saw during the cycle start to appear. However, unfortunately it may be dinos. Can anyone help me id this to verify? From what i can...

Hello, first of all, sorry for the low quality of pictures. If anyone has any idea what this may be (algae, Dino’s, cyano?). A little background, I have had this tank for nearly a year now, about 2 months in, this spider web looking stuff (hard to see in the photos but it is a dark brown/reddish...

hello and thanks in advanced. I have set a new tank up and it’s around 10 days old at this point. Over the last two days a huge coating of brown algae I believe to be diatoms has covered my rocks, sand and glass. however it is also covered in air bubbles which makes me think it’s not diatoms...