dinos

[KieAnderson]

Hey all, I have a new tank nearly 3 months old and I have Dinos. Last week its was 98% gone and when I water changed using NSW it came back on the rear of my tank.
I had been doing weekly water changes so I decided this week I wouldn't do one and see if it would go 100% before I did a change again.
I went to my LFS for some RO yesterday to top up as my salinity is a little high. Since adding the RO its come back even worse.

Is it something in my parameters that I'm missing?

Could it be something in the RO water from LFS?

 

[mmakay]

Dinos, diatoms and cyano are all very common in a tank that age. For many people it's just a short lived "phase" as the biosystem matures. I would not do anything drastic to try and fix it as you may just cause other, sometimes worse, problems. Just keep your levels as balanced as possible. (That includes not letting nitrate or phosphate hit zero!)

Also, are you positive they are dinos? Do the filter test at a minimum, but try to get a sample under a microscope.

 

[KieAnderson]

Its the snotty looking stuff with air bubbles

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

Tons of variety of dinos but in general confirm it’s dinos, raise nutrients and manual removal. If you can get a microscope/Id you can try blackouts, uv or other methods. Can you describe them? Do they hand in rocks? High light? Low flow areas? Better in mornin or night?

 

[Marc2952]

Dinos, diatoms and cyano are all very common in a tank that age. For many people it's just a short lived "phase" as the biosystem matures. I would not do anything drastic to try and fix it as you may just cause other, sometimes worse, problems. Just keep your levels as balanced as possible. (That includes not letting nitrate or phosphate hit zero!)

Also, are you positive they are dinos? Do the filter test at a minimum, but try to get a sample under a microscope.

Tbh if it really is dinos usually doing "nothing" makes it way worse.

 

[KieAnderson]

Tons of variety of dinos but in general confirm it’s dinos, raise nutrients and manual removal. If you can get a microscope/Id you can try blackouts, uv or other methods. Can you describe them? Do they hand in rocks? High light? Low flow areas? Better in mornin or night?

I have been raising nutrients and manually removing. They tend to be worse come the end of the day and reduce in the dark. I have reduce my white light from 100% to 10%. They do tend to form more in low flow area.

On the back on my tank seems to be air bubbles (definitely not bubble algea) on my rocks its like thick slime/snot with an air bubble at the top.

 

[Sparkyman]

I have been raising nutrients and manually removing. They tend to be worse come the end of the day and reduce in the dark. I have reduce my white light from 100% to 10%. They do tend to form more in low flow area.

On the back on my tank seems to be air bubbles (definitely not bubble algea) on my rocks its like thick slime/snot with an air bubble at the top.

 

[Sparkyman]

I am having the same problem I have a 10 gallon all-in-one nano. I am slowly increasing my nutrients because my phosphates and nitrates were at 0. I went from feeding every other day to every day. I also just added filter floss to the overflow today I plan on changing the filter floss daily. My 1st attempt was covering the quarium with cardboard for 3 days it looked good for about a week and then came back. Once I get my nutrients up I am going to attempt another 3 day blackout I will see what happens

 

[Sparkyman]

 

[Sparkyman]

 

[Cnelson93]

I’ve had luck in my 28g reefer nano finally, I started with manual removal and raising nutrients, it took feeding everyday, 5ml of acropower daily, pinch of reef roids twice a week and dosing 1.5ml of esv bionic nitrate to get nitrates to 10 and phosphate .03-.08. I’ve then been able to maintain them by feeding daily and 5ml daily of acropower. And the big thing that finally got Dino’s on the decline was adding a jebao 18watt Uv sterilizer. I also had to cut my chaeto in half so it wasn’t sucking up the nutrients as much.

 

[KieAnderson]

I had a boyu tl450 and that had a UV in. I've thought about taking that and putting it in my Red sea max nano.

 

[ShepherdReefer]

Hey all, I have a new tank nearly 3 months old and I have Dinos. Last week its was 98% gone and when I water changed using NSW it came back on the rear of my tank.
I had been doing weekly water changes so I decided this week I wouldn't do one and see if it would go 100% before I did a change again.
I went to my LFS for some RO yesterday to top up as my salinity is a little high. Since adding the RO its come back even worse.

Is it something in my parameters that I'm missing?

Could it be something in the RO water from LFS?

I am dealing with the same issue. Every time I would do a water change, the Dinos will come back with a vengeance. I read an article, performing a water change to rid of the Dinos is a bad idea, that Dinos thrive in nutrient-starved tanks and cleaning the water will eliminate nutrients and allow the Dinos to thrive further...that is what happened to me. The article did advise to remove the Dinos manually and use sock filters to catch the Dinos...so I found a 10 mico sock filter, should be arriving today and will try that. I guess my water is to good...we will see.