Oh no here we go!

In a vivid aquariums video the rep speaks of successfully killing Diatoms with bakers yeist. However he describes dinos in his comments as in 1" long and stringy. So maybe this is a cure for both or your issue. Something to investigate
Never could replicate their success with bakers yeast. Tried it many times.
Phosphates likely to harm coral, where bleach doesn't seem to as much..
Excessive PO4 only inhibits calcification. Might cause some browning in color also. Excessive nutrients in general however can lower ph and/or cause alk swings which is more likely to do harm to coral. PO4 in of itself won't harm them. A debatable suggestion that I like to make is, raising Alk to support increased nutrients can help with calcification and PO4 reduction through calcium phosphate precipitation. :)
 
I believe we should look at this as a cause of a bloom and generally not ID with a scope. IME the introduction is the only change. Again very common.

I've seen tons of tanks without eggcrate going through blooms, so I highly doubt it's a source, just a coincidence. I don't think there's any "food" source to fuel dino growth in plastics, but if your theory proves wrong, I'd love for that to be an explanation.

My 2 personal tanks, from about 2 years ago, went through blooms of O.Ovata with only live rockw and sand in the tank. It was all nutrients, competition.
 
@mcarroll here is the frogspawn I was talking about.

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This is how it's been looking for the last 2 weeks.
 
My own opinion of Euphilia and Zoanthids outside of this discussion is that sometimes they are very touchy corals. Rarely can folks explain why they close up when they do. Stress, almost surely....but the cause is usually mysterious. Torches are easier than zoanthids, but still touchy and react for seeming mysterious reasons.

So given the amount and nature of corals doing well and the peculiar habits of the ones that are questionable (zoa, euphilia, toadstool) – and given the sighting of some green algae on the glass – it seems like you've got to be in the process of turning the corner on this.

I'm a little anxious to see if nailing >0.10 ppm PO4 (new/higher recommendation) will have a more noticeable effect on the dino's themselves. :)
 
My own opinion of Euphilia and Zoanthids outside of this discussion is that sometimes they are very touchy corals. Rarely can folks explain why they close up when they do. Stress, almost surely....but the cause is usually mysterious. Torches are easier than zoanthids, but still touchy and react for seeming mysterious reasons.

So given the amount and nature of corals doing well and the peculiar habits of the ones that are questionable (zoa, euphilia, toadstool) – and given the sighting of some green algae on the glass – it seems like you've got to be in the process of turning the corner on this.

I'm a little anxious to see if nailing >0.10 ppm PO4 (new/higher recommendation) will have a more noticeable effect on the dino's themselves. :)
I dosed .02 po4 this morning per discussion last night. I'll check measurement tonight and see what it looks like.
 
How much quantity is that going into your system, BTW? Just curious.
 
I should have asked this with the last question....how many mL of KNO3 solution are you adding daily, and is it the DIY formula?
 
I should have asked this with the last question....how many mL of KNO3 solution are you adding daily, and is it the DIY formula?
I'm not adding daily. It's the DIY kno3(the two tablespoon instruct.) I'm dosing every other day at 2ml.
 
As soon as it's possible, I'd break that down into an equivalent set of daily doses.
 
Well I know many will swear that I didn't have a dino outbreak but I am very certain is was and I am pretty certain it's gone. It was so bad that I could dip my arms in the tank and the rust colored akgae would be covering my arms when I removed them from the water. The strings were 6-8 inches long and everything was covered! Couldn't keep it off my corals. Would blow it off and minutes later they would all be covered again.

I added a HUGE ball of Chaeto in my refugium and a Kessil grow light a few days before I left town around the 30th of June I believe. I noticed right off the bat that the Chaeto was catching strings of the algae all in it. I decided to leave the grow light on 24/7 and left town. I got back yesterday and to my surprise it looked like almost all the algae was gone. Today I am certain it's gone. Also no strings of algae in there with the Chaeto and the Chaeto has grown by at least 25% in a week.

Just wanted to update you!
 
Well I know many will swear that I didn't have a dino outbreak but I am very certain is was and I am pretty certain it's gone. It was so bad that I could dip my arms in the tank and the rust colored akgae would be covering my arms when I removed them from the water. The strings were 6-8 inches long and everything was covered! Couldn't keep it off my corals. Would blow it off and minutes later they would all be covered again.

I added a HUGE ball of Chaeto in my refugium and a Kessil grow light a few days before I left town around the 30th of June I believe. I noticed right off the bat that the Chaeto was catching strings of the algae all in it. I decided to leave the grow light on 24/7 and left town. I got back yesterday and to my surprise it looked like almost all the algae was gone. Today I am certain it's gone. Also no strings of algae in there with the Chaeto and the Chaeto has grown by at least 25% in a week.

Just wanted to update you!
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Its ok everyone can send me the love they had for Rev. Ill use it on my Dino, lol.
 

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