dinoflagelates

I was thinking about something a little different here, we surelly do not have a simple solution that works for all dinos, unfortunatelly, but for a long time we started to understand what are great conditions that predict dino problems in the future. So this list is kind of a joke (many items...

Hello there, just as a small preface I have been in the hobby for about 5 years and now am coming back from a break. I have an 80 litre nano that is now 2 months old. Nutrients were a problem because they were super low super fast. I did use exclusively live rock and a little bit of live sand to...

Keith from the 3 Glass Walls series shares with us his dinoflagellates outbreak along with his plan of attack for their removal. Join in and learn about how you can kick those pesky Dino's. Shop the Marine Depot website to get the resources you need to eradicate Dinoflagellates.

Hello everyone, a pretty silent member for about a year now. I am looking for help with my 125G sps tank. It is currently about 4 months old. It was started with dry rock and dry sand. I used a lot of MB7 to kickstart the cycle to start adding fish. Ammonia and nitrates were gone after three...

Im battling some red dusty algae all over the sand and rocks in my tank. I have never seen diatoms or cyano present like this so im not sure what it is or how to treat it. Its a fine dust that settles into a sheet on the rocks. Its not the typical dark purple/red of cyano. Its fire engine red...

I have some brownish stringy algae on the sand bed. Here’s some scope pictures with a link to the video. One person said diatoms already but I’d like to get that confirmed. Thanks! https://youtube.com/shorts/bIbPYK4BhB4?feature=share

Alright, hopefully the video provided a bit of a light-hearted intro to a not-so-light-hearted topic of discussion....Dinoflagellates!! I know this topic has been beaten to death, however since I gather that it is probably the #1 discouragement and source of abuse for those unlucky souls who...

Hi all, my tank has been running for about 2 months now and in the last couple of days I have had an outbreak of algae. At first I thought this was just the diatom stage as I haven’t had any yet, but I notice some stringy down bits growing on my rock today. This stuff is growing really rapidly...

I'm try to get better way to start.... let me star explain my situation. I have 55g tank display more 20g sump, I never had any kind of nutrient export except Skimmer now my reef have 1.2 year, always runt at 0 Phosphate and 0 nitrate and salinity1023, PH:8, Calcium 420, KH:8.4, mg:1100, Because...

Hi ip french , i have change all of my rock in my reefer 170 ,for marco since 2 month and now i have à invasion of dino i think but which ? i post photo , and also can you tell me the best solution ? I have tried 4 dose of DINO X FAUNA MARIN and at the day 8 so 4 doses there were even more so i...

Hi all, My tank has been absolutely overrun by dinoflagellates. To fight them off, I first did a three day blackout--which helped for a day, before they came back. I just did another three day blackout while following the Dr. Tim's dinoflagellate routine. Things look better, but they are...

Brand New Aqua 8 Watt UV Sterilizer HOB for Tanks up to 70 Gallon. Never used, bought to remove Dinos $75

I have this stuff all over the sand. 5 nitrates, 0.19 phosphate. Any thoughts? Seems too heavy to effectively siphon out. Blows off the rocks and frags very easily. Goes away at night, comes back strong during the day. Orange picture has a yellow lense over the camera, bluer one does not.

I’m guessing this is Dino, what kind is it?

I’ve been trying to battle this ‘brown algae’ for quite a long time now. I’ve finally gotten a microscope to observe all the cells in my aquarium. Does the picture below look like Dino cells. The cells do move around and they go away at night and come back in the day. This makes me think it is...

Hey, I've been battling one or two of the three that I listed in the subject. Ive been trying to maintain nitrates at 2-5, and phosphate has been 0.05. I have been dosing neonitro and Microbacter7. Here's a video of the algae under the microscope:

Hey everyone, I have a pretty new tank setup. 100 gallon DT, 32 gallon sump. About 120ish total volume. I used cycled media from a previous tank to help get this one going, along with Dr Tims bacteria. It is about a month old. Here's my stock: 2 clowns, 1 royal gramma, 1 BTA, 1 Rock Nem, lps...

I have never come across this algae before. It looks sorta like dinos or diatoms. It is a brown hair that turns into a brownish white snot. It comes back fast after manual cleaning and leaves white fibers behind after I scrub. It grows on the rocks and glas and sand... but not on the corals...

so i think i have dinos in my sump or something like that i’ll post a few pictures and i know they aren’t the best pictures but they where the best i could get and i’ll also try to describe it it’s like a weird matt with bubbles in it or could this be something else

So ive got a pretty nasty dino outbreak in my 150 gal. They spread over the entire tank in less than 2 days from when i noticed them. I added vibrant this past monday at the reccomended dose and by thursday every acro i had has bleached white and died and my lps that were doing great ( torches...

Over the course of my 5 years in the saltwater side of the hobby, I have had my fair share of fights with everything from parasites, to nuisance dinoflagellates/cyano/algae. I can say my current system has been clean and running beautifully for awhile now, and I haven't had a run in with Dino in...

Hey everyone need help with UV flow rate because I know it’s vital for actually being affective. Currently I have a 9 gallon tank and bought and 8watt UV sterilizer. (Aqua brand) At what flow rate should my pump be? I don’t wanna go to fast but don’t understand the math for it

I have a reef tank that most likely has either brown diatoms or dinoflagellates growing on the gravel/sand. Tank is at least a year old. Tests indicate excellent water quality with the possible exception - API kit shows nitrate @ 0 & phosphate checker shows it @ 0.03 so maybe too low? meaning...