HORRIBLE Dino's

[SurfTrack]

I have the WORST Dino's on my sand bed. Its been months and I have done countless water changes - all my RODI water is 0 TDS. I dont even know what to do anymore, I have beat it in the past but Im stumped right now. Literally 30 minutes once the lights go out, it ALL goes away - what should I do? What should I test for? Can I dose anything?

Makes the whole tank look dirty and horrible

 

[Jdadams]

UV sterilizer. Over feed or dose nitrate and phosphate if they are both reading zero.

 

[reefz]

I had a dino outbreak a year ago. No water changes helped it and every medication failed. My cuc didn’t even touch the dinos either. Until I started running carbon and gfo. I also had an extra reactor so I ran bio pellets. The dinos cleared up in a month. Also running the lights with little to no reds, greens, or whites seemed to help. Good luck

 

[SurfTrack]

UV sterilizer. Over feed or dose nitrate and phosphate if they are both reading zero.

I'm going to try this out, I read a few other success stories with the UV sterilizer so we'll see what happens. Thx

 

[Jdadams]

Because at night the dinos are suspended in the water column and will get ran thru the sterilizer and become unable to duplicate so you’ll notice a decrease by the day. Atleast that’s what happened for me. What are your nitrates and phosphates reading?

 

[SurfTrack]

Because at night the dinos are suspended in the water column and will get ran thru the sterilizer and become unable to duplicate so you’ll notice a decrease by the day. Atleast that’s what happened for me. What are your nitrates and phosphates reading?

Kit is expired. I have a new one on the way but im suspecting they're too low.

And yes, after the lights go out - there is zero sign that the Dinos were ever even present anywhere in the system - makes sense why a UV sterilizer would do the trick.

 

[Jdadams]

Those HOB Aqua ultraviolet sterilizers are pretty good and don’t cost to much. And you don’t even have to run it 24/7. Just plug in at night. Although some folks do run UV 24/7 because it helps with other stuff as well, Other bacteria’s and algae’s i believe