How did YOU beat Dinos?

[mermaid_life]

I beat dinos by first suctioning and filtering water through a 10 micron sock. Then I feed until I saw some green algae come in. Then I actively held back the algae by scrubbing to keep nutrients from being sucked up and adding phyto daily.

Now I have minimal nuisance algae, plump lps, and no dinos! I also have sps not dying... Not to the point I would call thriving yet .... Just not dying...

 

[vetteguy53081]

First- Check phosphates and nitrates to assure theyre not elevated.
Here is full program:
Prepare by starting with a water change and blow this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles.
Turn lights off (at least white and run blue at 10-15%) for 5 days and at night dose 1ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights. If you dont have light dependent coral- turn all lights off.
During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as bacter 7) per 10 gallons.
Clean filters daily and DO NOT FEED CORAL FOODS OR ADD NOPOX as it is food for dinos.
Day 5,, you can start with blue lights - ramping up and work your white lights up slowly

 

[EagleEye121]

I was just curiuos. There are so many different methods. I had success by raising my nutrients and dosing live phyto!

+1

Turned out my rock was absorbing all my NO3 and PO4, keeping them at 0. Manual dosing of seachem nitrogen and phosphorus started the improvement and dosing phyto keeps biodiversity high and thriving

 

[EagleEye121]

+1

Turned out my rock was absorbing all my NO3 and PO4, keeping them at 0. Manual dosing of seachem nitrogen and phosphorus started the improvement and dosing phyto keeps biodiversity high and thriving

Also no water changes for about 2 months. I’d blow off rocks daily and siphon sand/crud weekly through filter pads and put the water back in the tank

 

[Ta2oodfreak]

3 day blackout along with dosing hydrogen peroxide and some additional bacteria. A 50% water change or so and cleaned all the frag holders. 4:1 H202 dip and gentle cleaning for the worst covered corals (mainly zoas) for what the dosing didn't wipe out. Brought lights back on blue only and very low. Tossed a small $20 UV light in the open chamber of the sump (nano AIO).
Monitoring parameters now and upped feeding a bit. Looks like I am in the clear!

 

[NigelRichardson]

Strombus snails worked wonders for me

Went from horrible brown sand to almost crystal clear pretty much overnight - literally - one night, and its been under control since.

Wonderful little critters - who would have ever thought snails could have a personality !

 

[Cavalina]

Q: How did YOU beat Dinos?​

A: An asteroid?

Sorry, bad Dad joke, couldn't help myself.

 

[rc1626]

First- Check phosphates and nitrates to assure theyre not elevated.
Here is full program:
Prepare by starting with a water change and blow this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles.
Turn lights off (at least white and run blue at 10-15%) for 5 days and at night dose 1ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights. If you dont have light dependent coral- turn all lights off.
During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as bacter 7) per 10 gallons.
Clean filters daily and DO NOT FEED CORAL FOODS OR ADD NOPOX as it is food for dinos.
Day 5,, you can start with blue lights - ramping up and work your white lights up slowly

Worked for me. Had a little cyano too so ran some chemiclean first for two days. Did a water change and followed above directions. I'm about two weeks out from last peroxide and microbacter7 dosage and thankfully no sign of a return.

 

[lakai]

lights off for about a week (not blackout) while dosing bacteria and no3 and po4. Accidently mixed my po4 to 3x strength and didn't know it. Phosphates skyrocked to over 3.0 and the dino's haven't come back since. sps tank and only lost a few frags but everything else started doing very well.

 

[ScottB]

There are thousands of DIFFERENT types of dinos. There are 5 common nuisance dinos in our captive systems.

Over time, in the "Are you tired" dino thread, different treatment methods were developed according to which species are present.

The first task is to ID which species you have, then do a bit of research on what works best for your species.

 

[H3rm1tCr@b]

The only thing that really worked for my dinoflagellate strain was removing the food source: mass amounts of detritus I didn’t know existed. I noticed that my NO3 and PO4 levels were elevated, there was a ton of hair algae etc. UV helped a little but I needed to find the source of the bloom. My strain (I think it was Coolia) I noticed held a high preference for growing on detritus covered objects. I believe that it used the detritus as both an anchor and a food source. A DIY project and a lot of cleaning later the hair algae and dinos slowly melted away. My corals are now happy and I’m ready to try a bubble tip anemone again.

 

[EvanDeVita]

Depending on the dinos:
Raise NO3 and PO4
Lower NO3 and PO4
UV filter
Blackouts
constantly stirring the sand

 

[LDog74]

Filtered sand twice a day through a 1micron sock.
Dosed live phytoplankton.
Slowly raised NO3 to 10-15 & PO4 to .03-.10 and checked nutrients daily for two months to make sure I was maintaining. Knock on wood they don‘t come back!

 

[dmantz1]

Once you have the N03 to 3-15 & P04 to .03-.10 just add iron ie. Chaetogro or Ferrion by Brightwell’s. You’ll see the Dino’s start to disappear in days. It worked on my 2 tanks.

 

[Reef junky 305]

I beat dinos in about 5-7days.

I ran extra filter floss and would siphon into a filter sock placed in the sump to manually remove as much as I could added a big uv sterilizer with the pump was in the display and returning back into a filter floss cup..I also added micro bacter7 ....haven't seen them since but now I run uv 24/7

 

[MrStoffel]

I beat them by using micro bubble scrubbing, a powerfilter and dosing tunze care bacter.
They were gone in about a week. Was struggling for 3-4 weeks before i switched to microbubbles+power filter.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Turned out my rock was absorbing all my NO3 and PO4, keeping them at 0. Manual dosing of seachem nitrogen and phosphorus started the improvement and dosing phyto keeps biodiversity high and thriving

I know this is a few months old, but I wanted to clarify that rock cannot bind nitrate. Calcium carbonate does bind phosphate, but if nitrate is declining, an organism is consuming it.

 

[sagedrake690]

I was just curiuos. There are so many different methods. I had success by raising my nutrients and dosing live phyto!

If you got a problem, theres an animal for it. Bioactivity will outcompete them. Nerites are a good choice. They eat cyano and dinos. They dont do much though.

 

[lakai]

after trying all the methods I started to dose nitrate and phosphate, got the mix incorrect and accidently overdosed phosphate to 0.7. Dinos were gone within a few days but then I had this green cyano problem that lasted for weeks.

 

[euphygarden]

Lots of chaeto to sequester nutrients!