Anecdotal: Dinoflagellates 0 Ram 3

[RamsReef]

Don't know the strain, no microscope.

Fought it 3 times and won on different tanks, no damage to SPS, Torches, LPS, Zoas, Inverts, anything.

Step 1:

Add nitrates right away to ensure it is above 0.

Step 2:

Add metro, 1 scoop per 10 gallons.

Step 3:

Repeat for 4 days.

Step 4:

Dinos are gonner.

I add a pump and a filtersock, with the pump blowing into the filtersock right into the tank to help filter the water. You have to blow off the dinos still, this only makes it so they don't reproduce, does not remove them.

Your millage may vary.

I've come home from 2 weeks away from home (Field work) done this setup for the days I'm home, left, and came back to a clean tank.... On three different occasions now, it doesn't even phase me now.

Ram.

 

[Tahoe61]

Interesting.

Just for clarification, Metro, Metronidazole?

 

[RamsReef]

Seachem MetroPlex for specific.

And from reading @Diesel SPS tips I might just dose it into my main tank for sps which seem to die slowly for no other reason (Stable lighting and parameters)

 

[rockstarta78]

Interesting find. Isn't MetroPlex more of a fish medication? Since it is a treatment for protozoan and anaerobic bacterial diseases. Wonder how it effects dino. Have you seen any adverse effect to your CUC? Are you dosing it in your DT?

 

[jd371]

Did basically the same thing last year when my tank had Dinos. The only exception was instead of a pump and filter sock in the tank I used a spare canister filter and UV. The canister and UV were on a timer to operate at night when the Dinos are in the free swimming stage and in the water column. The canister had no filter media in it, it was just used to move water from the tank through the UV and into the filter sock in the sump. Every night before the lights shut off I would blow the Dinos off of everything with a turkey baster to get it into the water column and I adjusted one of the Ph's so it would move the water towards the canister filter intake. The next morning I'd remove the filter sock from the sump with the Dinos in it and replace it with another. This with the Metro I dosed in the first week and the Dinos were gone within a couple of weeks. I kept this set up going two weeks after there were no signs of Dinos present before breaking it down and putting away.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Did basically the same thing last year when my tank had Dinos. The only exception was instead of a pump and filter sock in the tank I used a spare canister filter and UV. The canister and UV were on a timer to operate at night when the Dinos are in the free swimming stage and in the water column. The canister had no filter media in it, it was just used to move water from the tank through the UV and into the filter sock in the sump. Every night before the lights shut off I would blow the Dinos off of everything with a turkey baster to get it into the water column and I adjusted one of the Ph's so it would move the water towards the canister filter intake. The next morning I'd remove the filter sock from the sump with the Dinos in it and replace it with another. This with the Metro I dosed in the first week and the Dinos were gone within a couple of weeks. I kept this set up going two weeks after there were no signs of Dinos present before breaking it down and putting away.

Was this a positive Id with a microscope ?

 

[RamsReef]

Interesting find. Isn't MetroPlex more of a fish medication? Since it is a treatment for protozoan and anaerobic bacterial diseases. Wonder how it effects dino. Have you seen any adverse effect to your CUC? Are you dosing it in your DT?

Not my find there is a huge thread on it. I've dosed in in 3 different tanks, all containing inverts, one having sps, lps, zoas, everything, others having lps and zoas.

 

[Muttley000]

What did you guys use to add nitrates?

 

[RamsReef]

I used seachem nitrate stuff but you can use potassium nitrate.

 

[jd371]

Was this a positive Id with a microscope ?

Yeah, no doubt checked with a scope.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yeah, no doubt checked with a scope.

Thank you.

 

[Patricedion]

I used seachem nitrate stuff but you can use potassium nitrate.

Is your Seachem stuff nitrogen flourish? I've call the Seachem lab and told me not to use the product in a reef tank, but it seems that a lot of people do it. I cannot buy the stump remover because nitrates products like spectrocide are illegal in Canada since 2013.

 

[RamsReef]

Im in canada, you can get the stump remover you just have to go way out of your way to get it. I think planted guy in sask sells nitrogen. But yes seachem stuff, smells like mint or something, refreshing.

 

[Memoreefs]

when you say repeat for 4 days, is it every day? or every 4 days

 

[Patricedion]

Im in canada, you can get the stump remover you just have to go way out of your way to get it. I think planted guy in sask sells nitrogen. But yes seachem stuff, smells like mint or something, refreshing.

Thanks

 

[RamsReef]

when you say repeat for 4 days, is it every day? or every 4 days

Everyday for 4 days. @twilliard was doing 3, I did one extra.