Dinos. Anyone know any good products to get rid of dinos?

[tom's_tank]

My tank is suffering from dinoflagellates or a algae/ bacteria that is similar to this. Does anyone know any products from Australia that could help fight this.
I have recently changed my water from tap water to rodi but has not changed much.

 

[AfaceInTheCrowd]

What are your parameters?

Dino thrive in really low/zero nitrate and phosphate...but aside from that, if you have been using tap water (although I don’t know TDS etc of Australian tap water) I would assume you have all manner of undesirables in your water column. I would do a series of water changes over the coming weeks/ months with the RODi (hopefully you have your own filter, not getting from a shop-as this can sometimes be awful, too)to get the tank back on track, you should siphon as much of the gunk out during this process as I possible to remove with 10/15% water changes...if you have a sump add a filter sock and siphon as much out as possible through the sock(so your not replacing too much water at once) I personally wouldn’t be looking for an instant fix of this, it’s going to take a bit of time and effort but you will get it back on track...you could turn your lights off for a while too as this may help, but you need to think of the corals also..

 

[Ludders]

What are your phosphate and nitrate levels like at the moment?

 

[Mikedawg]

Depending on species, uv light is very effective once water parameters are appropriate.

Any remedy starts with knowing what dinos you have and tank conditions.

 

[SMSREEF]

My guess (and it’s only a guess) is that you do not have Dino’s. You seem to have a good number of fish so nitrate and phosphate should be fine or even high.

It’s probably diatoms (which are easier to get under control)

good strategy of manual removal and water changes above from @AnotherFaceInTheCrowd

only thing I would add is a CUC with some snails (trochus, astrea, cerith) and maybe a couple hermit crabs. They will eat the left over diatoms that you cannot manually remove.

this is a good website with info on algae and CUC. I know you are in Australia, but it’s a great resource even if you can’t buy from them.

Nuisance Algae ID Guide- Reef Cleaners

Nuisance Algae ID Guide. Red Slime, Cyano, Cyanobacteria. Green Film Algae, Film Algae. Green Hair Algae. Green Turf Algae. Bryopsis pennata and B. plumosa. Bubble Algae, Valonia. Lobophora. Blue Green Cyano.

www.reefcleaners.org

 

[AfaceInTheCrowd]

Ye as above with SMSreef..I would imagine it to be something other than dinos, I’d guess it’s A bad case of diatom type algae caused by excess silicates from the tap water, I would expect to see an improvement “fairly” quickly once the tap water has been diluted from the system with rhe 0tds water now being used

 

[Ludders]

I share the above thoughts and just to add, it's always better to understand the root cause of any perceived problem than arbitrary dosing the tank with chemicals.

 

[tom's_tank]

My guess (and it’s only a guess) is that you do not have Dino’s. You seem to have a good number of fish so nitrate and phosphate should be fine or even high.

It’s probably diatoms (which are easier to get under control)

good strategy of manual removal and water changes above from @AnotherFaceInTheCrowd

only thing I would add is a CUC with some snails (trochus, astrea, cerith) and maybe a couple hermit crabs. They will eat the left over diatoms that you cannot manually remove.

this is a good website with info on algae and CUC. I know you are in Australia, but it’s a great resource even if you can’t buy from them.

Nuisance Algae ID Guide- Reef Cleaners

Nuisance Algae ID Guide. Red Slime, Cyano, Cyanobacteria. Green Film Algae, Film Algae. Green Hair Algae. Green Turf Algae. Bryopsis pennata and B. plumosa. Bubble Algae, Valonia. Lobophora. Blue Green Cyano.

www.reefcleaners.org

Yeah they do look more like diatoms my parameters are: Ph=8.1 ammonia= 0ppm nitrite= 0ppm nitrate= 0ppm cal=385 mag= 1320ppm alk=7 and i use the quantium mixed macro probiotic salt

 

[tom's_tank]

My guess (and it’s only a guess) is that you do not have Dino’s. You seem to have a good number of fish so nitrate and phosphate should be fine or even high.

It’s probably diatoms (which are easier to get under control)

good strategy of manual removal and water changes above from @AnotherFaceInTheCrowd

only thing I would add is a CUC with some snails (trochus, astrea, cerith) and maybe a couple hermit crabs. They will eat the left over diatoms that you cannot manually remove.

this is a good website with info on algae and CUC. I know you are in Australia, but it’s a great resource even if you can’t buy from them.

Nuisance Algae ID Guide- Reef Cleaners

Nuisance Algae ID Guide. Red Slime, Cyano, Cyanobacteria. Green Film Algae, Film Algae. Green Hair Algae. Green Turf Algae. Bryopsis pennata and B. plumosa. Bubble Algae, Valonia. Lobophora. Blue Green Cyano.

www.reefcleaners.org

Yeah they do look more like diatoms my parameters are: Ph=8.1 ammonia= 0ppm nitrite= 0ppm nitrate= 0ppm cal=385 mag= 1320ppm alk=7 and i use the quantium mixed macro probiotic salt

Yeah they do look more like diatoms my parameters are: Ph=8.1 ammonia= 0ppm nitrite= 0ppm nitrate= 0ppm cal=385 mag= 1320ppm alk=7 and i use the quantium mixed macro probiotic salt

I started using the rodi water 2 weeks ago and I have replaced roughly 150L which is half of my tank. But I can see improvements in the corals from the use of rodi water.

 

[SMSREEF]

Yeah they do look more like diatoms my parameters are: Ph=8.1 ammonia= 0ppm nitrite= 0ppm nitrate= 0ppm cal=385 mag= 1320ppm alk=7 and i use the quantium mixed macro probiotic salt

What is your phosphate level?
What test are you using for nitrate?
Do you have any green algae growing at all or just that brown stuff?

 

[ShepherdReefer]

Time, patience, and no water change (read many articles on this issue and most everyone said no water changes)...making sure you are not adding any phosphates back into the tank, using great water quality from an RO machine. If after many months and the problem is not gone, for me, I used a 36w UV with about 300gph and that eliminated all.