dinos or not?

[Sam Devos]

Hello everyone,
I am new here on this forum. I started my tank 2 months ago. i have a red sea reefer 450.
I started this tank with 40 kg of dry stone and 20 kg of live stone. I also started with natural seawater.

After one month i had a lot of "brown algea with air bubbles" some people told me i had dino's. so i bought dino x and reduced my light. they also say to put phosphate to 0 and add the dino x. i used a reduced quantity because i have zoa's and montipora in my aquarium.

After three weeks everything was gone so i dosed still 2 dosings of dino x, and after everything was gone i started to bring my phosphate back to 0,04 . after a few days my aquarium is again starting to get brown algeas (i think) but now i dont know what to do anymore, are this algeas i also had cyano bacteries.

I have 2 maxpect gyre 250 in my aquarium, also an jebao 4000liter pump and a Powerfilter.
I use the DSR EZ methode. i have an old microscope and i see this under it. i post pics of all.

Oh, and if i watch this under the microscope nothing moves. some people told me dinos needs to move, if i start watching for minutes, nothing moves

 

[BadFish619]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Mastiffsrule]

#WelcometoR2R

I cannot tell from the scope pic. The second pic does look like Dino as well as your description of bubbles. The 3 rd pic I can’t really tell. I think I see bubbles that look like bubble algae.

We will get some others to look when we bump up to welcome you and look at th3 pics

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Based on what I see, I’m gonna say yes. Just got rid of them in the system. Do they seem lighter in the am and build over the day? If so they go into the column at lights out and can potentially be taken out by a UV sterilizer. That was my way of winning in 24 hrs. A 36w Jabeo UV on 80 gal tank and 40 breeder sump.