Potassium nitrate (Spectracide stump remover) dosing steps

mcarroll · Mar 30, 2017

Paullawr said:
Hmmm you haven't had Dino's then....Lucky u.

Ask folks with #chrysophytes who's lucky.

I actually think they're almost the same in effect since dino's are (apparently) a common commensal. As mentioned, I don't have a scope, but I'm almost positive my infestation was heavy with dino's.

Paullawr · Mar 30, 2017

Yeah had them

still thought Dino's were worse.

DarkSky · Mar 30, 2017

I'm taking a sample over to a local college and having a fellow reefer microbiologist take a look and identify what I have. If there are dinos living with the chrysophytes symbiotically, I'll be doing a treatment of metroplex to try and stop them from reproducing. If the dinos are providing the #chrysophytes with nutrients, disrupting that relationship hopefully will kill them off. I'm attempting Vibrant Aquarium Cleaner at the same time, so I hope the 1-2-3 punch of killing off their food supply, physical removal, and vibrant bacteria will be too much for them.

Yes, I'd rather have dinos or cyano at this point. I've dealt with outbreaks of both in previous tanks. They're both easier to deal with than this stuff, imo.

Paullawr · Mar 30, 2017

But...Learnt my lesson ...If you take risks you will introduce.

Paullawr · Mar 30, 2017

DarkSky said:
I'm taking a sample over to a local college and having a fellow reefer microbiologist take a look and identify what I have. If there are dinos living with the chrysophytes symbiotically, I'll be doing a treatment of metroplex to try and stop them from reproducing. If the dinos are providing the #chrysophytes with nutrients, disrupting that relationship hopefully will kill them off.

Yes, I'd rather have dinos or cyano at this point. I've dealt with outbreaks of both in previous tanks. They're both easier to deal with than this stuff, imo.

Cyano. Walk in park. Crikey that's not even a pest. Tank has to be in a bad way to get it. Even so responds to various forms of treatment nicely.

Dino's being easy to deal with. Please whats the secret.

DarkSky · Mar 30, 2017

Metroplex, @twilliard had a sticky post that seems to be the best way at tackling them. Metroplex contains a medicine that disrupts dino's ability to reproduce (since the active ingredient in metroplex targets protozoa, and dino belongs to that family).

After about 3 days of treatment, and an additional 11 days of waiting, the dino outbreak is completely gone from the tanks of people who tried it.

DarkSky · Mar 30, 2017

Here was the thread about it:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/dinoflagellates-dinos-a-possible-cure-follow-along-and-see.253917/

Paullawr · Mar 30, 2017

So you beat them personally with metro? Any other factors?

Paullawr · Mar 30, 2017

Thanks well versed with that thread and no metro didn't work for twillard or I or anyone I know.

Paullawr · Mar 30, 2017

Be nice if it did.

Paullawr · Mar 30, 2017

Twillard then moved to sodium hypochlorite from about page 75 and well he still has them.

My personal experience was that they are totally unbeatable. I killed every other organism that I could see scope or other wise in that tank....And they lived.

DarkSky · Mar 30, 2017

Ah, I read the first 10-20 pages and just saw people saying it had worked. Did it come back in later posts or prove to be ineffective? Everyone that tried it seemed to have positive results.

For me personally, dinos were always beaten with a period of no lights, high flow, and UV.

Paullawr · Mar 30, 2017

Lucky you

DarkSky · Mar 30, 2017

Heck, I even had a patch of dinos in this tank that appeared at the same time as the chrysophytes, and it went away after about 2-3 days, I think the chrysophytes killed it off.