Corals unhappy

[JACKS REEF]

Okay guys so my daisy polyps and lots of my soft and lps corals have been unhappy for the past week. So I did a water change thinking that would help but I ended up finding out that I have Dino’s. From day 1 I always thought that my tank was too high on nutrients but I guess now I have too low nutrients. I thought I had Cyanobacteria but I guesss now it’s Dino. So I am feeding more heavy now and turned my skimmer off what else should I do to eradicate the dinos?

 

[vetteguy53081]

As soon as tonight or tomorrow night turn lights off for the next 5 days . Using a turkey baster blow the stuff loose and net or siphon up. Also at night, add 1ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10gallons for the next 5 nights.
During the day, add 1ml of liquid bacteria per 10 gallons.
Continue to feed fish as normal BUT DO NOT FEED CORAL FOOD TO CORAL OR ADD NoPox to tank which will feed Dino.
Day 6, turn blue lights to normal schedule and whites at 10%, then add whites 5.% each day until normal schedule.
Good Bye dinos !!

 

[Vwluv10338]

What are your numbers? I beat dinos when my nutrients dropped to zero. I removed my skimmer cup (kept it running for air) and dosed nitrates and phosphates. A bunch of my macro in my fuge had died but since I was dosing every day the macro came back and dinos went away in a week.

 

[Randomwhiteguy89]

Did you check that it’s Dino’s with a microscope it kinda looks like cyano from the photos

 

[JACKS REEF]

Did you check that it’s Dino’s with a microscope it kinda looks like cyano from the photos

Yeah but from siphoning out the Dino’s it looked like Dino in the water colum but cyano at the bottom where I siphoned which is very weird

 

[Randomwhiteguy89]

If it is dinos I beat mine with vibrant I kept my skimmer running and started dosing vibrant and nitrates and went from doing a 10% water change every week to every other week within a few weeks they were gone I did have some cyano blooms after I’m guessing from the Dino’s die off I just doses chemiclean once and that disappeared I’ve been doing a half dose of vibrant every other week since as a safety measure and my tank stays Dino and algae free

 

[Randomwhiteguy89]

Honestly if you know you have cyano I would treat that and see how the tank looks after it’s a 2 day process and it’s super easy you add the chemiclean give the tank 48 hours and do a 20% water change within the 48 hours the cyano will die off I’ve done this same treatment on multiple tanks with no negative effects just make sure your tank has a strong supply of air I usually just take the skimmer cup off and let it keep running

 

[Hincapiej4]

How do you find out you have dinos in that fashion? " From day 1 I always thought that my tank was too high on nutrients but I guess now I have too low nutrients. " This tells me you aren't doing your testing. All you can do now, is feed the nutrients more and wait.

 

[JACKS REEF]

How do you find out you have dinos in that fashion? " From day 1 I always thought that my tank was too high on nutrients but I guess now I have too low nutrients. " This tells me you aren't doing your testing. All you can do now, is feed the nutrients more and wait.

Look at the first pic

 

[Hincapiej4]

Sorry what I meant is, you kinda just "OOPS I have dinos, I thought it was algae?" But the only reason you didn't see it coming is cause you weren't and didn't test phos/nitrate?

 

[JACKS REEF]

Sorry what I meant is, you kinda just "OOPS I have dinos, I thought it was algae?" But the only reason you didn't see it coming is cause you weren't and didn't test phos/nitrate?

Yeah exactly I don’t usually test for nitrate and po4 because it’s just not very an important value but I guess I will now.

 

[Hincapiej4]

Not an important value? It's just as important as alk....