Dinoflagellates – Are You Tired Of Battling Altogether?
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mcarroll
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Huh...they seem to be irregularly shaped and (like you said) clear.
Amoeba?
And you're saying that this appears to your eyeball to be brown and stringy??
Can you post a closeup of one of the patches as well as a full tank shot?
Amoeba?
And you're saying that this appears to your eyeball to be brown and stringy??
Can you post a closeup of one of the patches as well as a full tank shot?
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Ozone "can" kill anything.
The question is whether a dose that the rest of your tank can handle will do anything to a dino.
I'm not aware of any research like that (yet) so I dunno.
My guess is that dino's would begin spore formation due to the stress so it would be a temporary "solution" at best.
saltwaterpicaso
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was just curious because I use ozone and didn't notice any effect but uv did but I still have it on rocks and sand and looks way way better I just blow it off sand and rocks daily but notice by next day its no where as bad as was hoping in time it goes away after all methods adding the uv was the best
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Large cell AmphidiniumCan anyone identify this dino? for me.
Here is one under high mag. And one under low. Looks purple under low. It is mobile and swims quite fast sandbed is so brown. It came after I used chemiclean to rid cyano. Now it is everywhere on sand, but no rocks.
Phosphate is 0. Nitrate is 1.5 ppm. I stopped gfo and switched to algea scrubber awhile back Should I add nitrate?
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Here is a short video as well as a full tank shot. Sorry about the washed out colors. But basically its brown in color.
New tank issues.
How old is the tank and what type of filtration are you running? No3 and Po4 tests?
yea its a new tank. This is a Triton setup with large chaeto fuge I also have a skimmer. My N04 usually stays around 10PPM or so. My P04 usually measures around 5 on the ULR Phosphors tester but bottoms out every few days. I usually put some food or seachem phosphors to keep it up. Just was trying to figure out what it was since nothing matches it when I look under the scope.
Does anyone know how much I should dose my 25 lagoon ehich is prob about 16 gallons of water volume starting off with using seachem flourish phosphorus and seachem flourish nitrogen and how to go about dosing everyday and how much to test I have salifert test kits . Thank you
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Hi all, here with some good and bad news. 4 days with out UV still not even one cell of ostreopsis visible under the microscope, all I can see is those round golden motionless cells. The bad thing is my tank dont look to good couse those golden cells took over, the good is they dont seem to bother corals.
Here is a video I took of how it looks in the tank.
I really understant the importance of having microscope couse if I didnt I would be sure I have dinos.
Hope one day someone will help me to identify whats this.
Have a nice weekend.
Here is a video I took of how it looks in the tank.
I really understant the importance of having microscope couse if I didnt I would be sure I have dinos.
Hope one day someone will help me to identify whats this.
Have a nice weekend.
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Maybe this?
http://www1.ci.uc.pt/pessoal/nunogdias/algario/gloeothece.htm
I'm still dead set on cyano. Might not be the good(safe?) kind though.
Jolanta
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They are round cell, gold color and dont look like those couse those are green and oval shaped and remembre I treated my tank maybe three weeks ago with red ciano rx, I think if they were ciano they would be dead with medication. Those things I have dont go to water column in the night, they stay the same in the rock at night and a daytime.
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Slowly reading this entire thread. Still Can t tell if I have ostepsis or
Amphidinium. If anyone can help will help me decide on uv or not.
Amphidinium. If anyone can help will help me decide on uv or not.
Can anyone identify this dino? for me.
Here is one under high mag. And one under low. Looks purple under low. It is mobile and swims quite fast sandbed is so brown. It came after I used chemiclean to rid cyano. Now it is everywhere on sand, but no rocks.
Phosphate is 0. Nitrate is 1.5 ppm. I stopped gfo and switched to algea scrubber awhile back Should I add nitrate?
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RedneckReefer68
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I'm about ready to throw in the towel on these things. Nothing is working and they keep coming back more than before [emoji35]
I didn't see any affect running it at 450mv. Though I suppose if you moved it up further it would start to oxidise them. Problem is how high do you go before it kills everything else.
UV works differently from ozone. Radiation damages the cells DNA.
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I used red ciano rx couse of a friend from spain who erradicated ostreopsis with it but in my case it didnt work.
They do look kind like in the video you posted but they are getting really dark in color now and have a very long stips. I think I had the same in my big tang and it went away when I started to feed natural frozen food, first it was kind of light in color and like white short hair algae, then it changed to golden and longer strips with bubbles and then it got really long and dark waving with water movement and then disapeared eaten by my tangs. Bad thing I can put a tang in my nano
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