Definitely dinos

[MarkaRagnos]

I have Amphidinium cf. carterae. I checked under microscope. What’s the best method of getting rid of that…. Without a uv sterilizer.

 

[Spare time]

What is your phosphate level (and what test kit)

 

[MarkaRagnos]

Hanna and at the beginning they were 0.01ppm magnesium was also low. I was running gfo in a new tank. I was recently told that was a bad idea and to let the phosphates and nitrates come up. It’s a fairly new tank. End of august it was put up and filled. Had old live rock from ten gallon (10lbs) that I knew were going to be leeching phosphates because in that tank the phosphates were so high. Now it’s a 75 gallon with 15 in the sump. There’s about 46 lbs of live rock I got from a friends tank in there as well. And 19 more lbs from the lfs. All live. So I have a large amount of rock. The substrate however is two months old. Just to give you a heads up on where im at. I was feeding only frozen because I was scared to have phosphates in this tank. Im now feeding pellets to fish and reef roids to corals to try to elevate the phosphates. When the phosphates and nitrates are high do you think this will end??

 

[MarkaRagnos]

What is your phosphate level (and what test kit)

I replied incorrectly

 

[Spare time]

Raising phosphates up seems to help eventually in most cases. I usually raise phosphate by dosing), then dose a mix of waste away and eco balance while maintaining the right amount of phosphate (and nitrate). I have also dosed pns probio with these. I am not sure what worked between all of these, and I have used a green killing machine too. Itt seems that upping phosphates back to normal and then giving it a few weeks seems to get me where I want. Again, I can't say what has worked for sure in the mix, but usually raising phosphates back up in the safe range is the unifying relief

 

[MarkaRagnos]

Raising phosphates up seems to help eventually in most cases. I usually raise phosphate by dosing), then dose a mix of waste away and eco balance while maintaining the right amount of phosphate (and nitrate). I have also dosed pns probio with these. I am not sure what worked between all of these, and I have used a green killing machine too. Itt seems that upping phosphates back to normal and then giving it a few weeks seems to get me where I want. Again, I can't say what has worked for sure in the mix, but usually raising phosphates back up in the safe range is the unifying relief

What’s a green killing machine?

 

[dvgyfresh]

This is amphidium and UV isn’t very effective as the hide in the sand vs entering water column at night , these are a hard species to get rid of. Luckily they are also the least toxic , I’ve heard of dosing silicates to boost diatoms which can outcompete the Dino’s

 

[MarkaRagnos]

This is amphidium and UV isn’t very effective as the hide in the sand vs entering water column at night , these are a hard species to get rid of. Luckily they are also the least toxic , I’ve heard of dosing silicates to boost diatoms which can outcompete the Dino’

This is amphidium and UV isn’t very effective as the hide in the sand vs entering water column at night , these are a hard species to get rid of. Luckily they are also the least toxic , I’ve heard of dosing silicates to boost diatoms which can outcompete the Dino’s

This is amphidium and UV isn’t very effective as the hide in the sand vs entering water column at night , these are a hard species to get rid of. Luckily they are also the least toxic , I’ve heard of dosing silicates to boost diatoms which can outcompete the Dino’s

Right. I just read a doctor’s post on here and I even asked him if I should find a way to actually put diatoms in my tank. Many articles say that diatoms slow the swim speed and replication via chemical warfare. I like the natural way. This tank didn’t get to go through the diatoms at all since this popped up first and went crazy with my nutrient deficiency. Thanks. I’ll give it a shot.

 

[dvgyfresh]

No problem , and be sure to have nitrate above 10pm and phosphate above .1 ppm during the process you don’t want to eradicate amphidium and then have another species of Dino take over lol

 

[MarkaRagnos]

I took out the hc gfo I was running. And started feeding pellets instead of frozen food and I feed reef roids to my corals. Hopefully that’ll get them up where I need them. Thanks for your response as well

 

[Spare time]

What’s a green killing machine?

Its a little in tank UV sterilizer. However, as dvgyfresh mentioned it may not do anything if that species is the only one present. I personally believe that phosphate dosing is the best solution, but that it varies in length each time I have seen dinos pop (often seems to depend on how prolific the dinos are atm but I can't say for sure) up and I usually dose those bacterias I mentioned.

 

[Kenneth Wingerter]

Raising phosphates up seems to help eventually in most cases. I usually raise phosphate by dosing), then dose a mix of waste away and eco balance while maintaining the right amount of phosphate (and nitrate). I have also dosed pns probio with these.

While it's typically used for cycling purposes, PNS Substrate Sauce might be a good alternative to PNS ProBio for those wanting to raise phosphate levels (it contains extra phosphate to support bacterial growth during cycling). Also contains an additional species (Rhodospirillum rubrum) which is naturally occurring on reefs and may be a critical piece of 'diversity' that helps to eventually exclude dinos.

 

[Spare time]

While it's typically used for cycling purposes, PNS Substrate Sauce might be a good alternative to PNS ProBio for those wanting to raise phosphate levels (it contains extra phosphate to support bacterial growth during cycling). Also contains an additional species (Rhodospirillum rubrum) which is naturally occurring on reefs and may be a critical piece of 'diversity' that helps to eventually exclude dinos.

I was more thinking dosing probio while dosing phosphate at the same time.

 

[MarkaRagnos]

Its a little in tank UV sterilizer. However, as dvgyfresh mentioned it may not do anything if that species is the only one present. I personally believe that phosphate dosing is the best solution, but that it varies in length each time I have seen dinos pop (often seems to depend on how prolific the dinos are atm but I can't say for sure) up and I usually dose those bacterias I mentioned.

I’ll order more dr. Tim’s. I have the two you mentioned I’ll get the rest as well

 

[Spare time]

I’ll order more dr. Tim’s. I have the two you mentioned I’ll get the rest as well

And like I said, I just kinda threw those in as it's still a mystery as to what part of raising phosphate (or the initial decrease) allows them to thrive. Competition is one idea, but what kind of competition is the question since it's the lack of phosphate resource that seems to be contributing to the problem. Regardless, the Dr tims is cheap and pns products are all around great

 

[MarkaRagnos]

And like I said, I just kinda threw those in as it's still a mystery as to what part of raising phosphate (or the initial decrease) allows them to thrive. Competition is one idea, but what kind of competition is the question since it's the lack of phosphate resource that seems to be contributing to the problem. Regardless, the Dr tims is cheap and pns products are all around great

I’m ordering pms you talked about now. I’m ordering Dino x also just in case. But on another note I’m thinking there may be some diatoms now. Dinos don’t stick to the glass do they? I have phosphates now. 0.12 ppm. Just blew everything off the rocks