Dinoflagellates my experience......h2o2 reefing tool!!!!!

[Fish_BowLisha]

A light at the end of the tunnel

 

[graham_kyle1]

There's a biologist kicking around forums named Pants.....very knowledgeable on Dino's, if you can determine what kind you have (need a microscope) you will be able to further narrow down what you can do.....I don't have a microscope so I don't know strain I have but I know for a fact that its Dino's. Been dosing peroxide recently bumped to 2mg/10g, did 5 days blackout and haven't done a water change, while I gotta admit my water looks like crap with fine white particles (hopefully dead Dino's!) From a distance my aquarium looks better than it has in awhile. Its only about 6 months old. If they come back I'm going to add MB7 and phytoplankton in an attempt to outcompete Dino's for nutrients/food. Despite not doing water changes for about a month my NO3 and PO4 levels are still undetectable. Curve5 skimmer refugium and running phosguard and phosban (switch between them) tank is a 36Bow sump is a standard 20G homemade. Going to give a couple days of light so my corals don't die, then for about 5 days do only about 3 hrs of day white lights, I'll do actinic for most of the day. Ive been seeing pods in my sump and worms in my sand, which i haven't seen in awhile.....still have brown strings but few and they don't seem to be growing......Here's hoping!

Dino's SUCK!!!!!!

Not sure if its related but I lost a maze brain coral and my branching hammer isn't nearly as green as it should be.....since before the dyno outbreak....think I cranked my 27" razor too high....reduced lighting and started reef foods......hardest fight I've come a gross yet these Dino's.

 

[Bokevince]

Hi grahan!
Do you have pictures of your dino?
What do you think about my algaes?
Dino, or cyano, diatoms?
How old is your tank now?
Dino's never came back?
Thanks

 

[Bokevince]

Hi graham!
Do you have pictures of your dino?
What do you think about my algaes?
Dino, or cyano, diatoms?
How old is your tank now?
Dino's never came back?
Thanks

Edit : graham

 

[Russ265]

I did the h202 method and it definitley kicked them back. however i misdosed not thinking at a 1:1 ratio. 1ml:1 gal.
it ravaged the dinos, irritated the corals (none died yet), but it did kill my cleaner shrimp, and my pistol shrimp is MIA.
due to such a huge dose, i dont plan on resuming and going the black out method to finish off what is left in the tank.

 

[Wild1]

Im an old guy & never learned the Metric system, so I have a 90 gal. reef tank with a 30 gal fuge, would someone please help me out in ozs as to how much to dose my tank with Hydrogen Peroxide. Thank you in advance

 

[brandon429]

Why not post a full tank shot to see the best way or if its the right need



A fuge with macro is a peroxide target both for the macros and the stores of organic waste people like to junk into refugiums.

A full tank shot helps to get a real plan

Show your target reason for the peroxide

 

[Wild1]

I don't anything in my fuge except sand lice rick & some Chaeto. Here's a shot of my tank sand bed I took last night, no full tank shot but soon

 

[brandon429]

zoanthids are highly tolerant of typical peroxide dosing. but, I think that's cyano not dinos so id just siphon remove it a few times I wouldn't dose it just my opinion

 

[Wild1]

Agreed I wont dose, going the siphon route for now...Thanx all

 

[brandon429]

and if it doesnt respond to a couple weeks siphon we go to town

 

[Russ265]

and if it doesnt respond to a couple weeks siphon we go to town

im about to remove corals and bomb my tank.

 

[brandon429]

sounds like
waaaaaar

no bacteria w be harmed in this transaction. oversized uv, used for ponds, we've done wonders with btw... pond sterilizer on nano reef in our big peroxide thread was key swing vote lol
B

 

[brandon429]

also, in spite of my clear peroxide bias in most cases i am required by nerd honor to report anything which may work better


and the new dinoxal treatments is beating peroxide massively at killing dinos. peroxide still king for many others tho lol

dinoxal, amazing outcomes on its threads. i trust threads when patterns develop

 

[Russ265]

also, in spite of my clear peroxide bias in most cases i am required by nerd honor to report anything which may work better


and the new dinoxal treatments is beating peroxide massively at killing dinos. peroxide still king for many others tho lol

dinoxal, amazing outcomes on its threads. i trust threads when patterns develop

if it is dino-x i heard it killed algae

i dosed 300ml tonight after removing all my more sensitive sticks and clam

 

[Russ265]

That is a dinoflagellate. There is a good chance it is this one, or something related. I've been wanting to dump some in someone's tank for awhile to see if it would clear up a dino bloom, but no one has wanted to be my guinea pig.

Can you get some video with higher magnification to confirm my suspicion?

im your huckleberry.

 

[Amit Kumar]

Put sand on top to cover it up and it'll die that how I got rid of mine.

 

[natas]

You either did not have dino or a very weak strain of it for something like that to work.

 

[Russ265]

Put sand on top to cover it up and it'll die that how I got rid of mine.

ill be sure to cover them with sand

 

[Amit Kumar]

No it was alot, not on the walls or anything. I took a brush and scrubbed the rocks. Not as much for the bacteria would be lost. But I got rid of mine and did a heck of a waterchange.