Dinoflagellates – Are You Tired Of Battling Altogether?

[ScottB]

producer told me it has but they have to be metabolized so it's safe to use. honestly, i'm not sure. i'll stop it.

any food corals safe to use? Better if with a dosing pump

I have personal experience with aminos producing an ostreopsis outbreak -- long after I thought they were gone. It was AcroPower.

I cannot speak to other coral food products. I only use fish poo now. A lot of it.

 

[iLMaRiO]

I have personal experience with aminos producing an ostreopsis outbreak -- long after I thought they were gone. It was AcroPower.

I cannot speak to other coral food products. I only use fish poo now. A lot of it.

Thought the same, as i'm dosing EasySPS and now I have ostreos. I was ostreo free (not visible even with microscope) for months.

 

[chema]

is safe to use EasySPS Evo when fighting dinos?

could be a coincidence but ostreos camera back after i started to dose EasySPS Evo (not sure if It was already here before dosing, i've fighted them 2 or 3 months ago and i've thiygh they was gone)

UV running every night from months but plumbed in sump, yesterday After seeing ostreos, i've plumbed it directly in DT and running h24

As far as I know Easy SPS evo is just a mixture of marine phytoplancton, therefore it should contain no amino acids.

 

[chema]

It has been two weeks since I started dosing silicate. Yesterday I took samples of a couple of areas with a a putative good Amphidinium infestation (sand covered with a brown-dark brown layer). One of the samples showed mostly diatoms (two predominant species, C. closterium, and an elongated one that could be Nitzschia spp.) ) with a few Amphidinium cells. The other sample was the opposite, mostly Amphidinium with some diatoms.

I think the treatment is working and the diatom population is increasing and , in some areas, overcoming Amphidinium.

 

[Xytrax]

Agree proro.

The little ones look to be chrysophytes. As an algae type, it should respond to an algaecide like Vibrant or AlgaeFix dosed with care.

Thanks for answer! I took some new samples today and now im even more confused.

They do look like dinos, but they are bright green. Could this really be chrysophytes?

 

[ScottB]

Thanks for answer! I took some new samples today and now im even more confused.

They do look like dinos, but they are bright green. Could this really be chrysophytes?

What level of mag is this? I can't confirm any dinos in those photos?

 

[Xytrax]

What level of mag is this? I can't confirm any dinos in those photos?

1000x with oil immersion objective.

 

[saltyhog]

At 1000x...those are not dinos.

 

[Xytrax]

At 1000x...those are not dinos.

Ok, thank you!

 

[dkrupenn]

Hello, I have some algae/bacteria growing on the patch of substrate. Visually it looks identical to the Brown algae (diatoms) and looks similar to chrysophytes. Do you know what it is and the best way to deal with it?

 

[Kevinkmk]

Hi everyone

I have Dino issue for a month already. Installed UV in display and maintain a higher nutrient during this period. They wipe out my acros frag. Now, they don’t grow on the rocks again. However they kept populating on my back black glass and the wave pump. I tried to ID them but I am really bad at it and can’t identify them. @ScottB and @taricha would you please help?
Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/DgULtuPedcs?feature=share

 

[iLMaRiO]

Ostreopsis Ovata.

 

[ScottB]

Hello, I have some algae/bacteria growing on the patch of substrate. Visually it looks identical to the Brown algae (diatoms) and looks similar to chrysophytes. Do you know what it is and the best way to deal with it?

That is not a common dino at all, and unlikely to be. We only see about 5 of them. If this is greater than 400X you are looking at something else. What magnification?

 

[ScottB]

Hi everyone

I have Dino issue for a month already. Installed UV in display and maintain a higher nutrient during this period. They wipe out my acros frag. Now, they don’t grow on the rocks again. However they kept populating on my back black glass and the wave pump. I tried to ID them but I am really bad at it and can’t identify them. @ScottB and @taricha would you please help?
Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/DgULtuPedcs?feature=share

@iLMaRiO nailed it.

Size of UV? Flow speed? Gallons in display? UV should be able to do most of the work for you if sized properly with a good bulb.

 

[Kevinkmk]

Ostreopsis Ovata.

@iLMaRiO nailed it.

Size of UV? Flow speed? Gallons in display? UV should be able to do most of the work for you if sized properly with a good bulb.

That is not a common dino at all, and unlikely to be. We only see about 5 of them. If this is greater than 400X you are looking at something else. What magnification?

Thank you all! This is under 100x and I ran 15w uv with around 200 gph in a 65 gallon display. Bulbs is only six months old. If this is Ostreopsis Ovata, continuous UV should be able to get them out eventually?

 

[taricha]

Hello, I have some algae/bacteria growing on the patch of substrate. Visually it looks identical to the Brown algae (diatoms) and looks similar to chrysophytes. Do you know what it is and the best way to deal with it?

That is not a common dino at all, and unlikely to be. We only see about 5 of them. If this is greater than 400X you are looking at something else. What magnification?

Actually, this is going to be large cell amphidinium. It looks very different because his microscope is imaging the cells differently, but all the structures are there. I'd bet it's a fancier scope than we're used to.

 

[iLMaRiO]

second day after UV plumbed directly in DT and running almost h24. no visible changes regarding ostreos here. strings are still in the same places (dead corals, glasses, sand) and in same quantity

 

[saltyhog]

second day after UV plumbed directly in DT and running almost h24. no visible changes regarding ostreos here. strings are still in the same places (dead corals, glasses, sand) and in same quantity

What size is your UV and what size is your tank? What size/flow pump are you using?

 

[iLMaRiO]

What size is your UV and what size is your tank? What size/flow pump are you using?

55w, 400 liters net, pump around 700 liters

 

[iLMaRiO]

Asking for a friend of mine.
Are these porocentrum only ? @ScottB @taricha