Dino

[rick13]

Hi, New to reef to reef. I have a question, don't know if I'm even posting in the right spot, sorry. I have a 28 gallon reef set up for about a year. Got some dino and some cyno. I used chemiclean and cyno went away. Dino isn't to bad but I checked phosphate and was undetectable with hanna checker. Over a couple days I dosed neophos and brought it up to.06ppm. Nitrates have stayed around 5ppm. My question now is that I brought phosphate up do I need to add something like microbacter7 to compete with the diatoms. Should I also aim to keep phosphate around where I am now to keep the new bacteria that I'm adding, fed?

 

[KJ]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[PeterC99]

Welcome to R2R!

Sounds like you’ve got Phosphates & Nitrates at good levels. Let them stabilize and the dinos may go away by themselves.

 

[MERKEY]

HHello and welcome to R2R!

 

[KJ]

Hi, New to reef to reef. I have a question, don't know if I'm even posting in the right spot, sorry. I have a 28 gallon reef set up for about a year. Got some dino and some cyno. I used chemiclean and cyno went away. Dino isn't to bad but I checked phosphate and was undetectable with hanna checker. Over a couple days I dosed neophos and brought it up to.06ppm. Nitrates have stayed around 5ppm. My question now is that I brought phosphate up do I need to add something like microbacter7 to compete with the diatoms. Should I also aim to keep phosphate around where I am now to keep the new bacteria that I'm adding, fed?

Dinoflagellates – Are You Tired Of Battling Altogether?

I don't know what percentage of folks had luck battling dinos with any of the methods in the old Dino thread but it's obviously a very low percentage, so I'd like refresh folks on the natural alternatives and lay out three areas of info: some of the factors that contribute to a dino outbreak...

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[Poof No Eyebrows]

Welcome
I would suggest you slow down and quit adding things to the tank. People are going to ask a few questions. First will be your parameters and second will be at a min a pic of the problem. There are different toes of Dino with different treatment paths.

 

[rick13]

Thanks for the welcome!
Parameters are
Alk 8.9
Salinity 1.026
Calcium 410
Mag 1350
Nitrates 5ppm
Phosphate.06
Temp 78
Wont be able to get a picture till I get home this evening.

 

[Poof No Eyebrows]

Thanks for the additional info. The pics will be extremely helpful. Might even turn out that you don’t have Dino but something else.

 

[|Frank|]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[rick13]

Thank you

 

[Fred2482]

Welcome!

 

[Jeffcb]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[RobertTheNurse]

Welcome to the forum!!

 

[Salty Rambler]

Welcome to R2R, and good luck with your current battle!

 

[G Santana]

Welcome aboard

 

[Fish Think Pink]

Hi, New to reef to reef. I have a question, don't know if I'm even posting in the right spot, sorry. I have a 28 gallon reef set up for about a year. Got some dino and some cyno. I used chemiclean and cyno went away. Dino isn't to bad but I checked phosphate and was undetectable with hanna checker. Over a couple days I dosed neophos and brought it up to.06ppm. Nitrates have stayed around 5ppm. My question now is that I brought phosphate up do I need to add something like microbacter7 to compete with the diatoms. Should I also aim to keep phosphate around where I am now to keep the new bacteria that I'm adding, fed?

Welcome!

Glad you joined. Lots of helpful people here, and this is just 'meet and greet' forum. Depending what your upcoming photo shows, some of the other forum areas are watched by others who specialize in <fill in blank... MANY options lol>

 

[tbrown]

Hi, New to reef to reef. I have a question, don't know if I'm even posting in the right spot, sorry. I have a 28 gallon reef set up for about a year. Got some dino and some cyno. I used chemiclean and cyno went away. Dino isn't to bad but I checked phosphate and was undetectable with hanna checker. Over a couple days I dosed neophos and brought it up to.06ppm. Nitrates have stayed around 5ppm. My question now is that I brought phosphate up do I need to add something like microbacter7 to compete with the diatoms. Should I also aim to keep phosphate around where I am now to keep the new bacteria that I'm adding, fed?

Welcome to the reef!

 

[JL15219]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[jtp7004ft]

Welcome good advice already given above

 

[SPR1968]

Hi and welcome to Reef2Reef!