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I stirred the tank up pretty good and cranked my 2 mp40's to 100% (90g tank). Here's what I did:
How I beat them.
Run the finest filter sock you can get your hands on (clean regularly)
Run as much carbon as you can (the dinos can be toxic)
Run a UV sterilizer, the dinos release into the water column at night
siphon out as much as you can before starting (I probably did a few 20-30% water changes)
I dosed KZ Coral Snow at night as it claims to bind to the dinos
I dosed lanthum cloride to reduce p04
I dosed twice the recommended dosage of phyto plankton to compete with the dinos
The dinos were just about gone in 24 hours. I think my only mistake was not turning the lights out for the 2 days while I was waiting for the UV to arrive.
If you have a few days to kill you can read the horror stories here-http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2307000
This looks like Diatoms to me. How mature is this tank?Currently battling this as well. This is about as bad as I've had so far. At this point, I'm just letting it be. Only have my anemones in there, and they barely get fed. Hopefully they starve out. Lights on 5 hours a day, to make sure the anems fine.
I've wanted to get a cuc, but when this dies, o2 level is going to plummet.
Great thread.... Here's what I'm fighting with not much luck....any recommendations? What kind is it?
All that bright green stuff on my sand.
Currently battling this as well. This is about as bad as I've had so far. At this point, I'm just letting it be. Only have my anemones in there, and they barely get fed. Hopefully they starve out. Lights on 5 hours a day, to make sure the anems fine.
I've wanted to get a cuc, but when this dies, o2 level is going to plummet.
Based on what I can see from the picture on my phone and in current lighting I would not say dinos.That would be nice too
I've tried a couple of things already to combat dinos, lights out and h2o2 dosing via a doser then a 40% waterchange (helped a little then they returned)
Stopped waterchanges and over fed, most successful at lowering amount of dinos however algea then takes over. And ironically waterchange and manual removal of a large amount of algea allowed the dinos to return.
I did daily 20% waterchanges in conjuction with over dosing h2o2 at night and this did nothing.
I have not gotten a uv sterilizer
I have not removed my sandbed
I have not elevated ph
I do overskim with an oversized skimmer
I do run filter socks
I run rox.8 carbon
My personal experience has been this: letting the tank get "dirty" caused a drastic reduction in the amount of dinos that grew every day, to the point where I felt comfortable ordering more coral. Before the new coral got here I did a large waterchange and removed probably 40% of the algea growing in the tank. This caused the dinos to return (they have never been to plague proportions, but they bother corals enough to have some tissue loss and it continues from there)
Tldr; tank gets dirty from feeding and no wc, algea grows, dinos dis spear, I clean tank and remove algea, dinos return.
My thoughts are removing the algea and cleaning the tank removes the competition for nutrients for the dinos and they start to bloom. So if I add 2 litres of pods, add some bottled bacteria every so often (maybe a couple strains) and maybe even add a small piece of live rock and cup of sand from an established tank I might be able to compete with it.
I am no scientist or expert, these are just my observations.
I think mine is cyanoBased on what I can see from the picture on my phone and in current lighting I would not say dinos.
HOW EVER I am extremely far from being an expert. If you are unsure of what it is, try getting a sample to a microscope somehow (I went to a local vet office) look at 100x mag and take a video. Then compare videos online to see if it is dinos and what species exactly
Good luck
How should I combat this? My RO unit is on order, I use store bought RO for the moment. Light schedule, water changes. I do about a 5g every other day Atm nitrates still hit 5-10 ppm as per API.. I've been toying with the idea of setting my 10 gallon up, to save the major coraline growth and anemone. I'd do this to scrub down the rock and h202 treat the tank itself. From what I heard, the rocks may be leaching the nutrients, the no3/4 that I'm battling.