What is this?

[WSM]

I have been battling what I thought was cyano for quite some time. I dosed chemi clean yesterday but it seemed to make whatever this is explode. Is it a form of red dinos?

It also seems to be wrapping around the heads of my hammers and the tips are falling off.

I don’t have a micro scope but any insight is helpful. It wasn’t wavy yesterday more of a mat typically of cyano.

 

[tbrown]

Dinos? How are your nutrients?

 

[WSM]

Dinos? How are your nutrients?

No4 5
Phosphate 0.04

When I checked before chemiclean

 

[tbrown]

Using Hanna ULR Phosphate?

 

[tbrown]

My phosphates got down low and it took me about a week to get rid of dinos afterwards once I got them back up.

 

[WSM]

Using Hanna ULR Phosphate?

Yes Hannah checker

 

[WSM]

My phosphates got down low and it took me about a week to get rid of dinos afterwards once I got them back up.

Does this look more like Dino’s to you? It has changed appearance since I put the chemi clean in.

 

[tbrown]

I'm really not an expert on identifying. Mine looked similar.

 

[WSM]

Just did another test
Phosphate 0.04
Nitrate 3

 

[tbrown]

Dinos can "sting" corals and they're often a symptom of low nutrients. There's a good possibility that you've got them. 3 and 0.04 are fairly low and could have easily hit 0 recently and allowed the dinos to get a foothold.

I got rid of mine over the course of about a week by turkey basting them off everything, running UV, bringing my phosphates up above 0.1, and hanging a small piece of filter floss in the display tank. They'd grab onto that and I'd rinse them every night before the lights turned off and again when I got up to go to work in the morning.

Like I said, took about a week but they disappeared.

 

[tbrown]

I should mention that depending on the type of dinos, treatment can vary. That's just what worked on mine.

 

[Uncle99]

How old is that system?

If chemi did nothing then could be be diatoms, Dino’s or a mix of the two pest stuff.

Do some/all disappear after lights out? These ones easy to target.

 

[WSM]

How old is that system?

If chemi did nothing then could be be diatoms, Dino’s or a mix of the two pest stuff.

Do some/all disappear after lights out? These ones easy to target.

It’s a lagoon 25 11 months old. I just put the chemiclean in yesterday 23 hours ago.

Yeah it seems like at night it’s mostly gone. Then comes when lights come on.

 

[Uncle99]

It’s a lagoon 25 11 months old. I just put the chemiclean in yesterday 23 hours ago.

Yeah it seems like at night it’s mostly gone. Then comes when lights come on.

Those are sounding like common golden Dino’s.
To rid, it’s a numbers game. You need daily reduce their numbers while ensuring chemistry is point on and stable, which favours the good guy stuff, that’s those processors which keep rocks clean and sand white.

UV when lights out, change socks/filter just before lights on, while lights on, a light vacum of the surface sand all while adding bacteria daily and a weekly splash of phytoplankton.

If chemistry stays super stable, especially Alk, Salinity and Temp, and at one point, the good guy population just outcompetes not just Dino’s, but other pest stuff as well like GHA.

Nitrate is fine but I’d bump your phosphate to .1ppm to .15ppm otherwise you risk that pest stuff staying put.