Is this dino? or is it something from overdosing amino?

[Krissreef]

So recently I found out I have been overdosing acro power (15 ml a day) and Brightwell 2ml every other day. I also dosed alike 15 ml of Phyto 3 times in one week. I noticed this slimy stuff and I stopped everything but feeling a little amount of pellets every day frozen food and kz vitalizer. I purchased reef nutrition live phyto and target fed this and the other few corals I have this stuff on, today they look worse. That gets me thinking it might not be dino. What do u guys it is?

120 gallon
7.8 alk
425 cal
1360 mag
5 nitrates
0.08 phosphates

 

[MTBake]

Kinda looks like dinos to me. Best way to verify is a microscope though.

 

[LxHowler]

Looks kind of like Dino's unfortunately but really hard to tell from a small amount but you have spotted it early which is great. Have you tried a reconstruction test on it (can't remember what people call it normally)

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Or you could try looking through a microscope to 100% sure.

 

[Krissreef]

Trying this now

Looks kind of like Dino's unfortunately but really hard to tell from a small amount but you have spotted it early which is great. Have you tried a reconstruction test on it (can't remember what people call it normally)

Helpful Method for Identifying Dinoflagellates

There have been dozens (probably hundreds) of posts from people trying to identify dinoflagellates in their aquarium. I have posted this in other threads but figured it might be helpful to start a thread explaining this method. Dinoflagellates are single-celled organisms that aggregate to form...

www.reef2reef.com

Or you could try looking through a microscope to 100% sure.

 

[LxHowler]

Trying this now

Best of luck. If you keep getting it you could try a few times. It took me a few times to get it right

 

[Krissreef]

I guess this means its dino? I spoke to a buddy of mine that runs zeovit (my tank started as a zeovit system) he also used phyto and had the same issue. He cleaned it by waterchange and stopped feeding coral foods and aminos. Weird...

 

[LxHowler]

I guess this means its dino? I spoke to a buddy of mine that runs zeovit (my tank started as a zeovit system) he also used phyto and had the same issue. He cleaned it by waterchange and stopped feeding coral foods and aminos. Weird...

Yeah I'd say that looks like Dino's, but you have caught it early so you should be able to deal with it fairly easily. I've found it pretty easy to remove them when they are light.