Nutrients high for dinos now this

[Cbones1979]

My nutrients have been higher past few days now this all over sand, rocks, and some corals. Still using h2o2 and bactra7. I have a UV coming tomorrow. Overdoing it or on track for slow success?

 

[Malifry97]

The second pic Looks like GHA to me. #reefsquad

 

[GoVols]

Dino's are more common to kick in when your phosphates and nitrates bottom out.
Low nutrients.

@Cbones1979

Can you try the below with a coffee filter as the strainer?

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

 

[Cbones1979]

Dino's are more common to kick in when your phosphates and nitrates bottom out.
Low nutrients.

@Cbones1979

Can you try the below with a coffee filter as the strainer?

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

 

[Cbones1979]

Dino's are more common to kick in when your phosphates and nitrates bottom out.
Low nutrients.

@Cbones1979

Can you try the below with a coffee filter as the strainer?

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

If not dinos will a uv sterilizer help me with any other forms of algae?

 

[Cbones1979]

The second pic Looks like GHA to me. #reefsquad

If it is, I guess a uv light won’t help at all.

 

[GoVols]

Going to post the below, for the trigger of dinos taking over a reef, and what to do

 

[Cbones1979]

Going to post the below post for dinos

Thanks. My water is a little dirtier. I increased feeding, slowed filter down, and haven’t changed water in weeks.

 

[GoVols]

Thanks. My water is dirty. I increased feeding, slowed filter down, and haven’t changed water in weeks

High nutrients should not fire up a dino outbreak.

So, It's most likely algae, unless you #'s bottomed out and you saw this at that point.

I think UV will only kill free floating algae.

 

[Cbones1979]

I think UV will only kill free floating algae.

Thanks

 

[Cbones1979]

Phosphates up to .42.
Ph 8.4
nitrate 10-20
alk 9

 

[Marc2952]

Phosphates up to .42.
Ph 8.4
nitrate 10-20
alk 9

Thats really high phosphates try keeping it at .1 or below, i did that mistake and my phosphates for some reason kept rising and hit a ridiculous 2.87 on the hanna checker.

 

[GoVols]

Phosphates up to .42.
Ph 8.4
nitrate 10-20
alk 9

If your dino free, you might want to get a reactor and tumble some gfo inside it, to help lower your phosphates.

or tumbling inside a mesh bag should work too.

Bring it down nice and slow:
Start off with 1/3 of the recommended dose in order to not shock your reef and be able to dial in the correct dose. Keep testing.

.03 to .05pm would be great, but .1ppm or lower should be fine.

You should see your algae fade away with lower the phos.

I'd leave the nitrates alone, there's some great reefs as high as 40ppm.

 

[Cbones1979]

Thats really high phosphates try keeping it at .1 or below, i did that mistake and my phosphates for some reason kept rising and hit a ridiculous 2.87 on the hanna checker.

Yeah, I’m going to back to normal feeding etc to try to slow the increase

 

[Cbones1979]

If your dino free, you might want to get a reactor and tumble some gfo inside it, to help lower your phosphates.

or tumbling inside a mesh bag should work too.

Bring it down nice and slow:
Start off with 1/3 of the recommended dose in order to not shock your reef and be able to dial in the correct dose. Keep testing.

.03 to .05pm would be great, but .1ppm or lower should be fine.

You should see your algae fade away with lower the phos.

I'd leave the nitrates alone, there's some great reefs as high as 40ppm.

Yeah I have hob filter I could bag some.

 

[Malifry97]

If your dino free, you might want to get a reactor and tumble some gfo inside it, to help lower your phosphates.

or tumbling inside a mesh bag should work too.

Bring it down nice and slow:
Start off with 1/3 of the recommended dose in order to not shock your reef and be able to dial in the correct dose. Keep testing.

.03 to .05pm would be great, but .1ppm or lower should be fine.

You should see your algae fade away with lower the phos.

I'd leave the nitrates alone, there's some great reefs as high as 40ppm.

But he isn’t dino free so he shouldn’t use GFO yet

 

[GoVols]

But he isn’t dino free so he shouldn’t use GFO yet

I said... If your dino free

 

[Malifry97]

lol
I said... If your dino free

Lol sorry I have NO IDEA how I missed that haha

 

[GoVols]

Lol sorry I have NO IDEA how I missed that haha

No worries

I can't tell if op's dino free or not

 

[GoVols]

@Cbones1979

Your thread "header" is kind of confusing.
Nutrients high for dinos now this

Do you still have dinos or are they gone from... upping your nutrients?

Thank you