Aluminum leach?

Cflow · Dec 29, 2019

No I’ve dealt with dinos before when doing zeovit a few years back. It killed most of my sps. My current frag tank had then for a little while too but they eventually died out. I don’t have a PO4 supplement besides fish food. I’ll try the skimmate dump. Need to get my snails out so some algae can compete it out for space.

Cflow · Jan 4, 2020

So in dosed some KNO3 and monosodium phosphate to help bring up levels. They are now measurable. The dinos are on the retreat. There seems to be a lot of extra stuff flying around in the tank. I have a triton style sump so no place to put filter socks unless I add hob filter or media reactor with polyfill. I’ve been thinking about dosing H2O2 to eradicate them but I noticed something strange. My yellow tang seems to graze on it. They are definitely dinos but my tang seems to like them. Wondering if I add my turbo snails and sea hair again if they will also chow down.

ScottB · Jan 4, 2020

Cflow said:
So in dosed some KNO3 and monosodium phosphate to help bring up levels. They are now measurable. The dinos are on the retreat. There seems to be a lot of extra stuff flying around in the tank. I have a triton style sump so no place to put filter socks unless I add hob filter or media reactor with polyfill. I’ve been thinking about dosing H2O2 to eradicate them but I noticed something strange. My yellow tang seems to graze on it. They are definitely dinos but my tang seems to like them. Wondering if I add my turbo snails and sea hair again if they will also chow down.

Some Dino species are nontoxic. I have read here several times that pods will eat the non toxic versions as well.

Cflow · Jan 16, 2020

So after aggressively dosing KNO3 and phosphate I was finally able to get a little bit of algae on my glass. The dinos were still floating freely in the water, but were definitely dying off. I eventually broke down and got a jebao Uv sterilizer and threw in a filter sock. After a few days the Dinos are gone! Will slowly taper off uv over a few weeks. Funny how marine pure blocks lead me to Dinos, but I guess I can vouch that uv does help remove Dinos.