Dino id

Aquajan · Mar 5, 2022

Hi,

I have dinos for about two months.
I waited to let it just go away but it does not seem to happen any time soon.
It is mainly on the glass, some on the sand and nothing on the rock and coral for as far I can see.
It seems to dislike high flow.
It does not grow near power heads and I got two tanks (one high light/flow and one low-mid light/flow tank) tied together with one sump and the low flow tank has mutch more dinos.
The low flow tank is about 7 months old started with dead rock and live sand.
The high flow tank is 2.5 years old.
I also have a fuge with cheato and it does not seem to have dinos there altough flow is very low in there.
The nitrate is 5 and phosfate is 0.06.

On the pictures I did not clean the glass for one week on both tanks.

Can any one ID these dinos based on this photo?
The 40x on my microscope does not work for some reason (blurry) so I can only make a 10x25= 250x picture.

I hope some one has a keen eye to see what we are dealing with here.

vetteguy53081 · Mar 5, 2022

Looks like Osteo and will need pics under white light to see the tank appearance. As for battle:
Prepare by starting with a water change and blow this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles.
Turn lights off (at least white and run blue at 10-15% IF you have light dependant corals) for 5 days and at night dose 1ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights. If you dont have light dependent coral- turn all lights off.
During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as bacter 7 or XLM) 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 - ramping up and work your white lights up slowly

Aquajan · Mar 5, 2022

Hi, thanks for replying.

Im gonna order some bacteria and pick up the peroxide tomorrow.
Is uv gonna do anything against these dinos?

Here are some daylight pics.