Can I just ignore dinos?

[Solasis]

Hey everyone. To be honest, I had no idea what dinos were supposed to look like. Well I was reading some posts and came across a picture of them and I definitely have them in my tank. I had a lot of these brown ones with the bubble attached, but those have mostly passed now.

Now, I seem to have some long green algae looking thing with bubbles on the end like that. I assume another form of dinos?

Well, my question is, can I just ignore them until my tank starts to stabilize? It's only around 2 months old with very little fish. Yeah, they are ugly, but I don't mind too much. It seems my tank has already been able to naturally beat the brown dinos, now I've just got these green ones. Can any fish be harmed? I do have yellow tangs.

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

I tried it once. It worked for 8 straight months. Then I just couldn't ignore them any longer.

 

[Solasis]

I tried it once. It worked for 8 straight months. Then I just couldn't ignore them any longer.

I see. But I wont have any fish deaths, right? I'm worried about the tangs possibly trying to eat one and then ingesting the toxins.

 

[Dan_P]

Hey everyone. To be honest, I had no idea what dinos were supposed to look like. Well I was reading some posts and came across a picture of them and I definitely have them in my tank. I had a lot of these brown ones with the bubble attached, but those have mostly passed now.

Now, I seem to have some long green algae looking thing with bubbles on the end like that. I assume another form of dinos?

Well, my question is, can I just ignore them until my tank starts to stabilize? It's only around 2 months old with very little fish. Yeah, they are ugly, but I don't mind too much. It seems my tank has already been able to naturally beat the brown dinos, now I've just got these green ones. Can any fish be harmed? I do have yellow tangs.

Dinos are never green. The green slime might be cyanobacteria.

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

I see. But I wont have any fish deaths, right? I'm worried about the tangs possibly trying to eat one and then ingesting the toxins.

They are actually toxic.

 

[Solasis]

Dinos are never green. The green slime might be cyanobacteria.

Here is what it looks like. Lights are out right now so this is just with a flashlight
As you can see there is some of that brown **** in the front but its mostly green now

 

[Solasis]

They are actually toxic.

Yeah. But is that mostly just towards inverts/corals or fish?

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

What's on your sand is absolutely dinoflagellates, yes you can mostly ignore them. But out of control they are toxic in large numbers. Let me find the link to the big dino thread or the condensed one. Brb.

 

[Solasis]

What's on your sand is absolutely dinoflagellates

No sand in this pic. This is just rock and the left is glass. That first pic is a stock photo I found, it's what I used to have but that is gone now.

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

No sand in this pic. This is just rock and the left is glass. That first pic is a stock photo I found, it's what I used to have but that is gone now.

My mistake.

 

[Solasis]

My mistake.

No problem. I'm assuming I was bottomed out on everything when I first started my tank since it was a single anthias and wrasse in a 300g. I have since added 4 tangs and fed more heavily, stopped using filter socks, and skimmer has been run less. Green algae seems to have outcompeted it. Do you have any idea what the green stuff is with bubbles though?

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

No problem. I'm assuming I was bottomed out on everything when I first started my tank since it was a single anthias and wrasse in a 300g. I have since added 4 tangs and fed more heavily, stopped using filter socks, and skimmer has been run less. Green algae seems to have outcompeted it. Do you have any idea what the green stuff is with bubbles though?

I'm leaning blue green cyano on that.

 

[Solasis]

I'm leaning blue green cyano on that.

That seems to be right. I'll have to go get a phosphate checker, I assumed it would be quite low.. but maybe not with cyano. Or is cyano just something that happens in new tanks until other organisms establish?

 

[Dan_P]

Here is what it looks like. Lights are out right now so this is just with a flashlight
As you can see there is some of that brown **** in the front but its mostly green now

@taricha, I was thinking only cyanobacteria, but structure on glass makes me wonder if this was too simple of a call.

 

[taricha]

Well, my question is, can I just ignore them until my tank starts to stabilize? It's only around 2 months old with very little fish. Yeah, they are ugly, but I don't mind too much.

You absolutely can ignore early stage nuisance - just suck out anything that is annoying enough to bother you and let the tank stabilize.

 

[taricha]

@taricha, I was thinking only cyanobacteria, but structure on glass makes me wonder if this was too simple of a call.

It's an unusual form whatever it is. I still vote cyano, until microscope pics make me reevaluate.