dinoflagellate

In today’s video Blaine takes us on a crash course on Dinoflagellates. One, if not the biggest reason, why so many aquarists get out of the hobby is dinos. Let’s get a better understanding of why these problems occur, how we can identify these dino strains, and how to properly rectify these...

Hey guys! Long time listener, first time caller here. I without a doubt have Dino’s. I was wanting to pull on this group of experts to try to land a positive ID on what type I have. They mostly remain on the sand. Dont retreat much after a night of darkness. They did however disappear after a...

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...

I am looking to buy a UV Sterilizer to fight dinos. I was looking on amazon and see "Jebao PU-36 Pond and Aquarium Clarifier, 36-watt" Would this be okay for killing dinos in a salt water tank. My DT is 60 gallons and i have a 20 gallon sump, all in all i have around 65 gallons of water in the...

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some help identifying the Dino’s that are in the pictures attached. At least I believe they are Dino’s. I have seen similar pictures that allude them to being either Coolio or amphidinium but they don’t seem to match exactly. Can anyone help me in IDing these and the...

Hi All, I seem to have a dino outbreak... Tank was doing great but I introduced some Ich and used PolyLabs Medic (which seemed to work) and at the end of he course the tank is now covered. Just need to identify to mitigate. I've looked at tons of pics and my pattern recognition must not be...

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...

I am writing to you all because I would like to discuss what I believe algaecide has done to my tank and figuring what to do now. Let me first begin by explaining my hypothesis as to the reason that drove me to use API Algaecide in the first place. The Algae Bloom 1. I introduced ~15 Mexican...

My microscope isn’t the best but do these look like large cell dinos and what is this microscopic red worm?

Hey all, I don't have a microscope. Just want to know of there's a way to tell the difference between cyano and Dinos without one. The video attached is what I have in my tank currently. T

So I’ve been running my first reef tank for about 4 months now. 30 gallon with 10 gallon sump. About 5 gallons of the sump space is setup as a refugium. Never really had much of an ugly phase until a month and a half ago when I had a huge dino outbreak. Within a few days everything was...

Hi everyone. I have had my 20g up and running for 6 months now and have recently encountered. Sorry for the poor photo quality but my microscope does not magnify much more while maintaining clarity. Please help identify the type of dino and what you guys have experienced in the best way to...

I was gifted a mature, stable, but neglected 75g reef a few months ago, quickly added a lot of fish without quarantine and had A very mild ich outbreak. Started dosing Polyp Lab Medic in response and a few days later, I noticed small amounts of dinoflagellate algae everywhere in my display tank...

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...

The third nutrient is my theoretical thinking on nutrients and understanding of aquarium stability and balance. The third nutrient or Carbon is a nutrient that not often talked about and little is known of its function and effects to the other Nutrients in reef aquaria, not much is know to...

When i try to scrape it off it disperses like sand. Everything is turning brown, even the substrate and glass. I tried buying a phosphate test buy i could find it here so i’ll try and see if an aquarium store can perform the water tests. The ammonia is at 0.25ppm and salinity at 1024

Hello, I'm looking for experienced reefers that have cases of Dinoflagellate getting expulsed out from the Gorgonian on a regular basis. I have a Gorgonian Pterogorgia citrina (at least I think?) and on a regular basis it expulses a bunch on Dinoflagellate from its body, It's literally in...

Let me introduce myself, my name is Paulo Scaldaferri, a Brazilian reefer who have been dealing with dinos as a special area of interest: I had it on my own tanks many times before and sometimes for months. This led me to an avid interest of study of those alveolates, including reading many...

Which strain is this? 40x magnification. I looked at images of Ostreopsis and Prorocentrum on Google but they look similar to me. Thanks

Hi guys, I've been reading this group for many months.:) 6 weeks ago I started my cycling of a 43 gallon tank without fish and with dry rock and live sand. There is no longer ammonia or nitrites and nitrates are at 100 ppm (Red Sea) and phosphates are barely detectable, 0.01 (AF) or zero. For...

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...

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...

Have some snot on the back glass, that's growing in an interesting pattern. It's ONLY growing on the glass, and both the turbos and nerites are eating it, so I don't think (fingers crossed) it's dinos. Some of the strings are nearly a foot long, but no bubbles. Where it's growing best is on the...

So my tank has had dinos for a few months, going from good to bad good to bad to worse, with recently being REALLLY bad. Here is a pic from a month or two ago. And here is what it looks like now. To be honest, im really not sure what I did. I manually removed it now and then. the biggest...

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...