Dinos in my refugium

[Keen4]

So I just started up my tank about 2 months ago and its still cycling through nitrates a tad @10ppm. Its a Red Sea reefer 350. 91 total gallon system. I have dinos in my refugium. Should I just keep scraping it off the glass and water changing? What about my copepods? Should I reduce the lighting period? I have 3 fish in the DT.

MG 1440 ppm
Ca 500ppm
DKH 12.5
PH 8.2
No4 .5ppm
no3- 10ppm
I have snails and crabs in there cleaning up quite well but the phosphates I think are helping the dinos grow rapidly. I slowly acclimated the light at 2-4 hrs a day to which its not at 8-12 hrs a day. Maybe too long.

 

[Ron Reefman]

Please don't take this the wrong way, but your post has confusing data. First, it's hard to have dinos in the refugium and not have them spread to the DT. Second, dinos do better in tanks with very low nitrates and phosphates. You say 'you think' your phosphates are helping the dinos??? So what is your phosphate level? In my experience, snail and crabs as well as most other CUC will not even touch dinos. So your saying that your CUC is helping makes me think you have some kind of algae issue and not dinos.

How about a couple of photos?

Oh, an 8-10 hour photo period is not too long for macro algae. But if you have dinos, that lighting doesn't help. And yes, keep cleaning whatever this nuisance algae is out as often as possible.

 

[Keen4]

Please don't take this the wrong way, but your post has confusing data. First, it's hard to have dinos in the refugium and not have them spread to the DT. Second, dinos do better in tanks with very low nitrates and phosphates. You say 'you think' your phosphates are helping the dinos??? So what is your phosphate level? In my experience, snail and crabs as well as most other CUC will not even touch dinos. So your saying that your CUC is helping makes me think you have some kind of algae issue and not dinos.

How about a couple of photos?

Oh, an 8-10 hour photo period is not too long for macro algae. But if you have dinos, that lighting doesn't help. And yes, keep cleaning whatever this nuisance algae is out as often as possible.

Sorry for the confusion. It looks like diatoms. I think I confused that with dinos. I know its not cyanos. maybe brown algae from my nitrate cycle. I just cleaned it all up so cant see it now. I think whatever it was just spread all over my DT now because that water is cloudy. I had this same algae in my 20 gal off and on. Let me see if I can find a recent pic of my sump.

 

[Keen4]

Not sure if you can see it here- maybe if you zoom in. This a about 4 days ago.

Ive also re arrainged the rock and the chaeto so it can have flow from a maxi 400 circulation pump that I had. Now the fuge has flow. I also decreased the lighting a little bit lower and reduced the reds. Im using a Kessil h160.