Dino control?

[JKDMan]

Have any of you guys been successful at controlling dinos by increasing nutrients. After upgrading my skimmer I started getting more Issues with dinos. For the past few weeks I've been getting undetectedlevels of Phosphate and Nitrate on my API kits. I've seen several sources say that having such low Nutrients can contribute to dinos. I wanted to know it's any of you have been successful with increasing nitrate and phosphate to control dinos. I think I'm going to try lowering my light intensity and turning my skimmer off for a few days, as well as manual removal during water changes to see if that helps

 

[vetteguy53081]

Prepare for a water change and blow this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles.
Turn lights off for 5 days and st night dose 1ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights
During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as bacter 7) per 10 gallons.
Clean filters daily and DO NOT FEED CORAL FOODS OR ADD NOPOX as it is food for dinos.
Day 5,, you can start with blue lights and work your white lights up slowly

 

[Cole.mormon]

50 watt uv sterilizer
or in tank version

 

[taricha]

After upgrading my skimmer I started getting more Issues with dinos. For the past few weeks I've been getting undetectedlevels of Phosphate and Nitrate on my API kits. I've seen several sources say that having such low Nutrients can contribute to dinos.

API kits don't really offer the PO4 sensitivity to answer.
People talk about low PO4 being associated with dinos in the context of values being "low" on a hanna ULR P test that can distinguish between say 0.02 and 0.05ppm PO4.

 

[JKDMan]

Prepare for a water change and blow this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles.
Turn lights off for 5 days and st night dose 1ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights
During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as bacter 7) per 10 gallons.
Clean filters daily and DO NOT FEED CORAL FOODS OR ADD NOPOX as it is food for dinos.
Day 5,, you can start with blue lights and work your white lights up slowly

What about corals light

 

[PicassoClown04]

What about corals light

Many should be okay with no light for a few days.

 

[vetteguy53081]

What about corals light

You can run 10% blue. Only 5 days and coral will be highly affected if that Dino isn’t rid of

 

[Willbiker]

I am also battling dinos and in my opinion blackouts only temporarily halt the dino. Waste of time. Here is what I have done which is working for me....slowly, set up a large uv with slow flow rate, up nutrients to 0.1 phosphate and 10ppm nitrate either by feeding heavy or dosing, dose microbacter7 or vibrant to help increase bio diversity, STOP ALL WATERCHANGES, turn off white light and stick with blue,

My dino is slowly going away now but this battle takes months. Dont use any chemicals like dinox, do it the natural way as above.

The only way it will stay away is by having a mature tank and to not let nutrients hit 0

Good luck!

 

[anthonygf]

I am also battling dinos and in my opinion blackouts only temporarily halt the dino. Waste of time. Here is what I have done which is working for me....slowly, set up a large uv with slow flow rate, up nutrients to 0.1 phosphate and 10ppm nitrate either by feeding heavy or dosing, dose microbacter7 or vibrant to help increase bio diversity, STOP ALL WATERCHANGES, turn off white light and stick with blue,

My dino is slowly going away now but this battle takes months. Dont use any chemicals like dinox, do it the natural way as above.

The only way it will stay away is by having a mature tank and to not let nutrients hit 0

Good luck!

That is a good plan. But wouldn't be wise to turn off the UV for a few hours when adding bottle bacteria?

 

[Willbiker]

That is a good plan. But wouldn't be wise to turn off the UV for a few hours when adding bottle bacteria?

Yes correct. I turn skimmer and uv off for 4 hours. I also added an air stone to my sump to help keep o2 levels up. Its working, it just takes time

 

[Willbiker]

How are you doing with it? Any improvement since you posted this thread?

 

[Reef Guy Ronnie]

Some great suggestions here already stated.
Personal experience- I worked on increasing nutrients by dosing PH and Nitrate directly and I ran a UV Sterilizer for about a week or two weeks time. When dosing nutrients, still go slow, and TEST!

 

[anthonygf]

Yes correct. I turn skimmer and uv off for 4 hours. I also added an air stone to my sump to help keep o2 levels up. Its working, it just takes time

I run my skimmer when lights are off and let it drip on the filter media, just incase it starts to skim very wet on it's own which it has done a few times a year.