Dinos, Even with decent phosphate readings?
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Kyleovski
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Ye thought it was dinos and worked hard to get nutrients up but it’s not subsided unfortunately
gbroadbridge
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I'm not sure from the photos. It could be a cyano strain.I’ve been battling this for a while now, thought it was dinos but not so sure anymore.
Parms:
Phos: between 0.05 and 0.075 using Nyos test kit
Nitrate: 0.5ppm salifert
Any ID?
How did it start? Did the Nitrate and Phosphate sit at zero for a while?
Once Dino's arrive, raising nutrients will simply feed them, you need something to outcompete them.
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When in doubt, it’s fairly easy and safe to use chemi-clean to rule that pest out.
Just make sure you skim, extra air stone is helpful.
Nitrate low in my thinking. I’d bump that to 5-10ppm, pest stuff loves low/no or imbalanced nutrients
Just make sure you skim, extra air stone is helpful.
Nitrate low in my thinking. I’d bump that to 5-10ppm, pest stuff loves low/no or imbalanced nutrients
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Ye I bottomed out nutrients. So should I dose silicates or something to get diatoms?
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I had Dinos in my 13g Evo tank for over 6 months.
Yes, the thing that seemed to finally defeat it was dosing Silicate and keeping nutrients above zero (but not high) - around 5ppm Nitrate and 0.1 Phosphate.
I also dosed MB7 so I can't say whether it was one or the other or both - or something else all together.
It still took over a month to clear them up.
In your case I'd confirm the problem with a microscope before potentially making things worse.
