Help With Dinos

[toddb93]

Hello everyone, I am hoping to get some help with my Dino issue in my 38 gallon AIO reef tank. It has been about 2 month of having them and about 3 weeks of treating them. So far I have been dosing microbacter 7, microbacter clean, and phyto. Thus far I really do not see any difference in the dinos. Would anybody be able to post a thread with steps on how to beat them or if someone would be able to post how to beat them in this chat. I believe I have the strain which does not go water born as I have been running UV for over a week with no difference. I have not done a water change in a little over a week. My corals (LPS) seem to be taking a hit from this algae as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Uploaded a picture taken a couple weeks ago, it is slightly worse since then. Also worth mentioning I tried some manual removal last night, and the algae that was removed appeared to be green. Is this perhaps not Dino or can Dino look green when out of the water? Thanks again in advance.

 

[j.falk]

Dino is brown and stringy.

 

[The_Paradox]

That looks like algae to me.

 

[toddb93]

Dino is brown and stringy.

Hi j.falk, thank you for replying, yes when looking in the tank most of it appears brown with little air bubbles attached to it

 

[toddb93]

That looks like algae to me.

So not Dino? Majority of what is in the tank now appears more brown, some strings, and air bubbles attached when the lights are on. As well as sand bed, some spots have a brown mat over it

 

[The_Paradox]

Wait till the lights have been on a couple hours then get a photo. Or put a piece of filter floss on the glass opposite a power head and see what starts to develop. That will help limit down what it could be a little more then we can go from there

 

[WestMI-Reefer]

So not Dino? Majority of what is in the tank now appears more brown, some strings, and air bubbles attached when the lights are on. As well as sand bed, some spots have a brown mat over it

That is definitely Dino. The snot bubbles are the tell.
As far as treatment, you will read a huge range of opinions on what to do. Lots of these contradicting each other. I like your approach with bacteria dosing. I’m also fighting dino’s.
The overall conclusion that everyone agrees on, is that it will eventually get out competed and die off. Tank maturity seems to play a big role.
Good luck!

 

[Troylee]

So not Dino? Majority of what is in the tank now appears more brown, some strings, and air bubbles attached when the lights are on. As well as sand bed, some spots have a brown mat over it

Get some pics of the sand bed when you can it will help.. I don’t believe what you show on the rocks are Dino’s even thou I see bubbles… that could be the algae just exhausting..

 

[Bobbyvelvet]

yes that looks like bubble algae .

 

[toddb93]

Wait till the lights have been on a couple hours then get a photo. Or put a piece of filter floss on the glass opposite a power head and see what starts to develop. That will help limit down what it could be a little more then we can go from there

Will do, thank you, I’ll continue to post photos with lights on. Appreciate the help!

 

[toddb93]

Get some pics of the sand bed when you can it will help.. I don’t believe what you show on the rocks are Dino’s even thou I see bubbles… that could be the algae just exhausting..

Would love if that is the algae exhausting lol. But I will post pics later today of the sand bed when lights are on. Thank you!

 

[toddb93]

That is definitely Dino. The snot bubbles are the tell.
As far as treatment, you will read a huge range of opinions on what to do. Lots of these contradicting each other. I like your approach with bacteria dosing. I’m also fighting dino’s.
The overall conclusion that everyone agrees on, is that it will eventually get out competed and die off. Tank maturity seems to play a big role.
Good luck!

Thank you WestMI-Reefer. Tank is just over 1 year old and unfortunately this is the first thing I’ve started battling. Just strange because I haven’t changed any practices with the tank the entire year, and this just randomly occurred.

 

[j.falk]

It could be a blend of dinos and algae.

 

[j.falk]

That is definitely Dino. The snot bubbles are the tell.
As far as treatment, you will read a huge range of opinions on what to do. Lots of these contradicting each other. I like your approach with bacteria dosing. I’m also fighting dino’s.
The overall conclusion that everyone agrees on, is that it will eventually get out competed and die off. Tank maturity seems to play a big role.
Good luck!

I got rid of dinos 3 times in 3 different tanks by removing the entire sand bed and afterwards adding bacteria and pods (Reefcleaners mixed blend). It worked and dinos never came back.

 

[toddb93]

It could be a blend of dinos and algae.

I’m starting to think it is a blend, when I took some out last night, there was green coloration. My nitrates read 0 so I’m going to try dosing nitrate and seee if I can get some other algae growth to starve it out.

 

[toddb93]

Does anybody have any thought on if I throw some chaeto algae in the tank? Would that be beneficial for this?

 

[j.falk]

Does anybody have any thought on if I throw some chaeto algae in the tank? Would that be beneficial for this?

With 0 nitrates already...wouldn't that just add to the problem?

 

[Troylee]

Does anybody have any thought on if I throw some chaeto algae in the tank? Would that be beneficial for this?

If your nitrates truly are zero then no… if you have Dino’s no.. if it’s just hair algae growing on the rocks then yes it would help compete for what nutrients you do have.

 

[toddb93]

With 0 nitrates already...wouldn't that just add to the problem?

That’s what I thought as well, I’m going to hold off of doing that

 

[toddb93]

If your nitrates truly are zero then no… if you have Dino’s no.. if it’s just hair algae growing on the rocks then yes it would help compete for what nutrients you do have.

Thank you Troylee, appreciate that input