Please help me ID this algae

[matthias_bln]

Hi fellow reefers,

I'm not quite sure what's growing in my coral QT tank here:

Thanks and have a great weekend everyone!
Matthias

 

[Miguel Negron]

Hi fellow reefers,

I'm not quite sure what's growing in my coral QT tank here:

Thanks and have a great weekend everyone!
Matthias

Looks like Dino. I may not be an expert but, my tank had this a couple weeks back and I assume I had Dinos. So I raised my nutrients and removed carbon and gfo

 

[matthias_bln]

Looks like Dino. I may not be an expert but, my tank had this a couple weeks back and I assume I had Dinos. So I raised my nutrients and removed carbon and gfo

Thanks, Miguel! Is raising nutrients the only thing you did? Did you manually remove it as well?

Thanks,
Matthias

 

[Molsman24]

Looks like Dino. I may not be an expert but, my tank had this a couple weeks back and I assume I had Dinos. So I raised my nutrients and removed carbon and gfo

How high do you let your nutrient levels rise before restarted either carbon or GFO back into the tank??

 

[sfin52]

Thanks, Miguel! Is raising nutrients the only thing you did? Did you manually remove it as well?

Thanks,
Matthias

@12gallonsofhex my turn.

Bad new folks I have Dino in my tank

I had it in 2017 and it wiped out 90% of my corals. This time I know what I’m dealing with. Cheato dropped phosphates to undetectable levels.

plan.
Dosing refresh than waste away. I worked for cyano supposed to help with Dino as well.

No water changes. New sw seems to fuel growth. So my water changes will be into Into a 5 micron sock into a 5g bucket and dumped back into the tank

dosing phosphates into the tank.



that’s my plan. It worked last time it will work this time.

This is what I did. You can follow the progress on my thread. The dino isn't blooming any more

 

[Miguel Negron]

How high do you let your nutrient levels rise before restarted either carbon or GFO back into the tank??

Honestly I couldn’t even tell you an exact number because I have a 20 gallon and I didn’t have test kits. But, I feed my tank like I had a 55 gallon with 12 fish! Everyday feeding and reef roids until you see another algae compete with it. So once I started seeing algae on the glass I would continue and without cleaning until it got dirty. Now all he dinos is gone and I did a water change and added everything in

 

[Miguel Negron]

Thanks, Miguel! Is raising nutrients the only thing you did? Did you manually remove it as well?

Thanks,
Matthias

Yeah it helped a lot I fed everyday like I had twice the size tank with quadruple times the fish and coral until another algae competes with it. With manual, I found myself seeing it comeback

 

[Miguel Negron]

Yeah it helped a lot I fed everyday like I had twice the size tank with quadruple times the fish and coral until another algae competes with it. With manual, I found myself seeing it comeback

But, you should use a turkey baster and blow it off