Fighting Dinos Question

aLu · May 6, 2022

So I have been working to fight some dinos which took over my sand bed. I worked thru the water chemistry side and have steady good numbers. I worked thru verifying my RODI water has zero TDS. I also worked thru doing a 3 day blackout which admittedly did the best but they did come back after a few days. Finally I purchased a gyre and using my existing two wave makers have worked to adjust the flow patterns near the sand bed. This where there is very strong flow has worked to keep them down. However it’s so much flow that I’m adjusting the sand dunes daily and have had to move my soft corals down to my sump. My Zoas are also not fully opening now either due to the flow increase. Is this amount of flow right or should I stop and try a different solution for these dinos. Was thinking about trying a UV for a week or two to see if that helps. Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.

AydenLincoln · May 6, 2022

aLu said:
So I have been working to fight some dinos which took over my sand bed. I worked thru the water chemistry side and have steady good numbers. I worked thru verifying my RODI water has zero TDS. I also worked thru doing a 3 day blackout which admittedly did the best but they did come back after a few days. Finally I purchased a gyre and using my existing two wave makers have worked to adjust the flow patterns near the sand bed. This where there is very strong flow has worked to keep them down. However it’s so much flow that I’m adjusting the sand dunes daily and have had to move my soft corals down to my sump. My Zoas are also not fully opening now either due to the flow increase. Is this amount of flow right or should I stop and try a different solution for these dinos. Was thinking about trying a UV for a week or two to see if that helps. Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.

Try Microbacter7 and a clean up crew if you don’t have one but honestly sometimes you just have to wait for it to die down.

DeniableArc · May 6, 2022

aLu said:
So I have been working to fight some dinos which took over my sand bed. I worked thru the water chemistry side and have steady good numbers. I worked thru verifying my RODI water has zero TDS. I also worked thru doing a 3 day blackout which admittedly did the best but they did come back after a few days. Finally I purchased a gyre and using my existing two wave makers have worked to adjust the flow patterns near the sand bed. This where there is very strong flow has worked to keep them down. However it’s so much flow that I’m adjusting the sand dunes daily and have had to move my soft corals down to my sump. My Zoas are also not fully opening now either due to the flow increase. Is this amount of flow right or should I stop and try a different solution for these dinos. Was thinking about trying a UV for a week or two to see if that helps. Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.

Hi, I did not get an id on my Dino’s but just days after a quality UV the battle was 80% won. I still run a uv 24/7 just for the water clarity and overall fish and aquarium health.

aLu · May 6, 2022

AydenLincoln said:
Try Microbacter7 and a clean up crew if you don’t have one but honestly sometimes you just have to wait for it to die down.

I did order some more snails as I was very sparing with them since I didn’t want them to starve. Also I haven’t tried microbacter so I can give that a shot to see what it will do.

aLu · May 6, 2022

DeniableArc said:
Hi, I did not get an id on my Dino’s but just days after a quality UV the battle was 80% won. I still run a uv 24/7 just for the water clarity and overall fish and aquarium health.

Can I ask which one you use?

DeniableArc · May 6, 2022

aLu said:
Can I ask which one you use?

I use a fairly cheap uv made for ponds called pond one cleartec 18w. And my tank is 65 gallon. I believe the most important thing is to set it up to pump directly from display tank.

aLu · May 8, 2022

DeniableArc said:
I use a fairly cheap uv made for ponds called pond one cleartec 18w. And my tank is 65 gallon. I believe the most important thing is to set it up to pump directly from display tank.

Awesome thank you.

DrMMI · May 8, 2022

I used the elegance coral dino treatment on both my tanks which worked well. I started with a 3 day blackout just to give myself a headstart.

aLu · Nov 23, 2022

I am hoping to get this thread going again as I am still fighting them. I am now running a UV light, GFO, carbon, and harvest charro weekly. All of the corals seem happy and I only have 6 small fish. I have also upgraded my RODI system with the silicate buster but still no dice. I am completely at a lose and not sure where to go next. Need some help please. Also before anyone asks my nitrates and phosphates are at zero or near zero steadily.

RBReefer · Nov 24, 2022

aLu said:
I am hoping to get this thread going again as I am still fighting them. I am now running a UV light, GFO, carbon, and harvest charro weekly. All of the corals seem happy and I only have 6 small fish. I have also upgraded my RODI system with the silicate buster but still no dice. I am completely at a lose and not sure where to go next. Need some help please. Also before anyone asks my nitrates and phosphates are at zero or near zero steadily.

Hello, I also had a Dino issue recently. Luckily for me a UV light is working. During the research I did I found many opinions that said zero phosphates and nitrates could encourage Dino growth. I was in the process of raising nitrates and phosphates because I was at zero on both. Whether that contributed to my issue and than raising them also helped get rid of them is possible.

oreolk · Nov 24, 2022

aLu said:
I am hoping to get this thread going again as I am still fighting them. I am now running a UV light, GFO, carbon, and harvest charro weekly. All of the corals seem happy and I only have 6 small fish. I have also upgraded my RODI system with the silicate buster but still no dice. I am completely at a lose and not sure where to go next. Need some help please. Also before anyone asks my nitrates and phosphates are at zero or near zero steadily.

get rid of the GFO. Dinos will thrive in low phosphates