Dinos

[Napoliandy]

I am having a Dino problem. I am staying on top of it but I was hoping for some suggestions from anyone who can help. Please tell me how you took care of it.

 

[GeoSquid]

There are a couple big threads on this site about fighting dino's. I had them really bad to the point I was blowing it off corals with a turkey baster 3 times a day. I finally beat them with a different technique than what I've read on here. I had an algae turf scrubber and noticed the dino's liked to grow on it. So, I decided to add a second (both DIY) scrubber. I turned off my skimmer and instead of scrapping the ATS screen, I just rubbed off the dino's with my fingers under tap water. My theory was to promote GHA on the screen by not scrapping and dion's rinse off easily. It took about 2 months and the dino's were gone. I also fed the tank heavily. I do have some GHA in the display now but I'll take that all day long over dino's. I feel the GHA slowly started to out compete the dino's. There are other ways to beat them but them seem like so much more work. I treated the dino's just like another algae succession.

 

[Randomwhiteguy89]

I had a Dino outbreak a few months back I have a nice collection of sps that like cleaner water so I was riding the line at 0 nitrates and 0 phosphates and next thing you know there were Dino’s everywhere I tried so many different methods to remove it with no luck I was on the verge of tearing it apart and starting over, then I came across a thread about vibrant and figured it can’t get any worse why not give it a try I started using the vibrant and adding small doses of nitrates to the tank to keep it around 5 to 10 ppm and 3 weeks in more than half of the Dino’s were gone and at the 5 week mark they were completely gone I did have small patches of cyano show up after the Dino’s died off I’m assuming it was prob because it was feeding off the dead Dino’s but one treatment of red slime remover and it was back to perfection I still use the vibrant and never plan on not using it I do a half dose every other week and I haven’t had any algae in my tank since

 

[Schwartzy]

As others have said, I just got done battling Dino’s in my 50 gallon mixed reef. Was testing at 0 phosphate, 0 nitrate when the outbreak happened. First step for you would be to raise nutrient levels if they are low. I starting feed more and more often, tuned my skimmer down, reduced my fuge lighting cycle, and dosed phosphates and nitrates to get up to .08 phosphates and 10 nitrates. Next, raise your ph. It will help raise oxygen levels in the tank which creates a less ideal environment for Dino’s to thrive. The way I did this is by running an airline tube to the nearest window to feed the protein skimmer. I also added an airstone for an odd week or so. Reducing the display tank lighting cycle is also something I would recommend and something that I did because Dino’s are photosynthetic. I cut mine in half. I also dosed vibrant. This will introduce bacteria that will help out compete the Dino’s once you start slowing down their growth rate. Lastly, I did something a little unorthodox, but something I’ve heard weird success from. Apparently Dino’s, or at least the ones I had, hate higher temperatures. I raised my tank temp up to 80-82 for a week period. 2-3 days after I did all of those things, the Dino’s were 95% gone.