Plz help not sure if cyano or dinoflagellates

[Wiz]

In the end for me, It was a higher pH, Very little feeding after the blackout, Very low light schedule, And I used a siphon to suck every little bit of it that I could find out every time I saw it over a period of two or three weeks. The siphon went from the top tank to the bottom through a couple of filter pads. It was really hard because it came back every 20 to 30 minutes. And there were times when I could not get to it while at work Or out. After the first week it started coming back slower and slower. Until after week three it just stopped coming back.

 

[Tahoe61]

I fed my fish during the black out.

 

[Duez]

In the end for me, It was a higher pH, Very little feeding after the blackout, Very low light schedule, And I used a siphon to suck every little bit of it that I could find out every time I saw it over a period of two or three weeks. The siphon went from the top tank to the bottom through a couple of filter pads. It was really hard because it came back every 20 to 30 minutes. And there were times when I could not get to it while at work Or out. After the first week it started coming back slower and slower. Until after week three it just stopped coming back.

So you siphoned to your sock filters ? I can do that easy i can set up constant siphon and use it to clear dinos when i see them or can use filter floss in a bucket and poor back in to sump??

 

[Wiz]

My wife hated me for that month. Lol I am not joking when I say I was siphoning every 30 minutes for 3 weeks.I had already had it for a month or two and had tried everything I could think of. But my reef is well worth it, now that it's over lol. Just like most everything in this hobby IME, it is good husbandry that will win. There are no shortcuts

 

[Wiz]

Not the insump socks. I bought a separate sock filled it with different types of filter pads and ran water from the top tank through the sock and into the Sump

So you siphoned to your sock filters ? I can do that easy i can set up constant siphon and use it to clear dinos when i see them or can use filter floss in a bucket and poor back in to sump??

 

[Duez]

I stay on top of my tank my wife was mad 3 days ago lol she is over it but with a black out i dont know if i really need to shipon they become water born after there no lights on right??

 

[Duez]

Can you tell me where and what you got wiz

Not the insump socks. I bought a separate sock filled it with different types of filter pads and ran water from the top tank through the sock and into the Sump

 

[Wiz]

I don't know. I know that mine would disappear overnight. But they would come back 15 minutes after the lights came on. I get the feeling they would not have disappeared had I allowed them to grow but I was siphoning daily so it was a minimum when lights went out.

 

[Wiz]

It was my favorite local LFS. I got the filter sock which I did not pay much attention to which type it was. Then I got filter pads of varying micron. I was not sure what would work so I used a little of everything

 

[Duez]

It was my favorite local LFS. I got the filter sock which I did not pay much attention to which type it was. Then I got filter pads of varying micron. I was not sure what would work so I used a little of everything

Like filter floss carbon pad and phosphate pad maybe a spong and spread it to the out side and let the water hit the mid im going to get a bunch of pads and set up at bucket that drains back to my sump

 

[Wiz]

Use whatever u can. Lol

 

[Duez]

Ok i just saw the had a 7 inch filter sock while i was there yeaterday so ill get that and cram a bunch in there the set up a smaller line to shipon all the time throught it in to a container the fiter that to the sump

 

[Wiz]

Just watch it so it does not clog and overflow the sock

 

[Duez]

Kind of quick but that filter is built now plumbing it in

 

[Wiz]

Cool. Hope it works

 

[Duez]

Lights on for a min to shipon

 

[Duez]

Just watch it so it does not clog and overflow the sock

Got a 7"x15" and have carbon and gfo with 2 pad filters and filter floss in there who knows if it will help but worth a try

 

[Ariton]

Dinoflagellates 99% but to make sure 100%
Take cup of tank water filter it throw the toilet paper, live it for few hours of those thinks come up its dinoflagellates for sure
Check all holes make sure they are food grade or 100% silicon I had the same problem after I change the house my tank is crystal clear
Hope helps for your situation

 

[Duez]

Im shocked on how much the little shipon has pulled out of crap tonight been going for littel over 3 house and theres a ton in the filters

 

[Duez]

Ok update 99% gone the pic is a small colony of dynos this is what to shipon by tomorrow i will have no more dynos hopfully for good the little brown stuff is the dynos in a slow water spot that gets light