Hi everyone
I’m having a dinos outbreak since 3 or 4 months in a reef tank (13.5g) with a high bio load (nitrates hovering 40 to 60ppm and phosphates around 0.5). My lion fish is already to big for this aquarium which difficults to maintain lower values. (I’m preparing a 100g aquarium to transition him in some months)
I have ID dinos as Amphidinium with a cheap microscope. I have tried several methods to eradicate an none seems to help.
I began using phosguard and performing water changes to decrease nitrates and phosphates. I tried a 3 day blackout. I raised the Temperature to 28 C. I tried elegant coral method. Even though, Amphidinium goes into the sand bed, I tried also running an UV sterilizer. Nothing worked at all.
Now as a desperate measure I’m trying Dino X I’m on the Second dose and Dinos seem to be there as always.
I’m ready to begin dr’tims method if Dino x doesn’t work. But I’m loosing the hope now. I have invested a lot of effort and money trying everything I can.
Any advice would be very appreciated.
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I’m having a dinos outbreak since 3 or 4 months in a reef tank (13.5g) with a high bio load (nitrates hovering 40 to 60ppm and phosphates around 0.5). My lion fish is already to big for this aquarium which difficults to maintain lower values. (I’m preparing a 100g aquarium to transition him in some months)
I have ID dinos as Amphidinium with a cheap microscope. I have tried several methods to eradicate an none seems to help.
I began using phosguard and performing water changes to decrease nitrates and phosphates. I tried a 3 day blackout. I raised the Temperature to 28 C. I tried elegant coral method. Even though, Amphidinium goes into the sand bed, I tried also running an UV sterilizer. Nothing worked at all.
Now as a desperate measure I’m trying Dino X I’m on the Second dose and Dinos seem to be there as always.
I’m ready to begin dr’tims method if Dino x doesn’t work. But I’m loosing the hope now. I have invested a lot of effort and money trying everything I can.
Any advice would be very appreciated.
![image.jpg image.jpg](https://test.reef2reef.com/data/attachments/2616/2616426-2612aae6001e7af1af2b372eb19e331b.jpg)
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