Dinos?

[Charley75]

Is this Dinos? If so , how to rid. Tank is only about 2 months old.
90 gal about 100lbs cycled live rock, 120lbs live sand ( bagged stuff). Rock also sat in circulating salt water with heater for a couple months. I have only been testing for nitrates and ammonia , but all have been zero.

 

[andrewey]

It's possible that could be dinos, however other benign and harmful pests are associated with those bubbles. I suggest looking at them under the microscope or doing the coffee filter test to confirm if they are dinos.

 

[darkcurrent]

Yes, looks like it. Have you seen the Dino thread here: Dinoflagellates – Are You Tired Of Battling Altogether?

It looks like you don't have any livestock, you could siphon it all out or try restarting as well.

 

[Charley75]

Couple other pics

 

[Charley75]

Another

 

[Charley75]

I do have fish and a anemone.....just a bit camera shy

 

[andrewey]

It's probably dinos, but I would coffee filter to be sure. I wouldn't reccomend starting over and I don't believe siphoning will be effective as a monotherapy. I would read the first part of the thread @darkcurrent linked.

 

[Charley75]

And of course various snails and hermits

 

[andrewey]

While dino eradication is still in its infancy, I would particularly warn you to be very careful with anything you try given your anemone. Having an anemone in a two month old tank is precarious, but some of the proposed eradication methods have a high likelihood of harming your anemone. I would be warry of anything that seems unorthadox and would stick to the proposed methods suggested in the first post of the linked page.

This isn't to suggest that dino treatments are particularly harmful to anemones, only that for a sensitive organism in a VERY volatile tank, adding treatments that might disturb the fragile homeostasis could push the anemone over the edge. I would do things slowly and make sure not to rush anything you do.

 

[LAreefdude]

It's possible that could be dinos, however other benign and harmful pests are associated with those bubbles. I suggest looking at them under the microscope or doing the coffee filter test to confirm if they are dinos.

How do you do the coffee filter test ?

 

[andrewey]

Here you go

Helpful Method for Identifying Dinoflagellates

I was reading randy holmes article about dinos. He had mentioned that snails will die if they eat dinos. My fishes are not intereted in eating them but ive bought teo snails that one of them eats these algae very much.(Although i think that im sure its dino) One other question is that these...

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