Prorocentrum battle - Help!

[clhardy5]

So, I've been dosing silicate (sponge excel) for 4 weeks now in my battle against Prorocentrum. When I test, I get a silicate reading that ranges between .09 - 1.04 using the Hanna ULR test. Although I can see some diatoms under the microscope, it doesn't appear that their numbers are increasing - certainly not a 'bloom', and the dinos are still winning. Should I increase what I'm currently dosing? If, by how much? how often?

I've also been sucking as many dinos off the sand bed once a day with my turkey baster - but, the tank pretty much looks the same as it did 6 weeks ago.

Do I keep doing the same? Or are there other things I could also try?

 

[LiveWire]

I have been fighting the Dino's as well but have not used the Sponge excel. Hopefully someone will be able to answer your question. I have heard about dosing sponge excel but my dinos are effected by UV so that along with higher temp and dosing MB7 and phyto have been keeping everything in check. Although I have not done a water change in some time so hopefully when I do they don't go crazy again. I will be following along to see how things go in your battle.

 

[brandon429]

how many gallons is this tank, there's a certain option for smaller system that is very powerful.

 

[Mmcghee102485]

I have been fighting the Dino's as well but have not used the Sponge excel. Hopefully someone will be able to answer your question. I have heard about dosing sponge excel but my dinos are effected by UV so that along with higher temp and dosing MB7 and phyto have been keeping everything in check. Although I have not done a water change in some time so hopefully when I do they don't go crazy again. I will be following along to see how things go in your battle.

What type of Dinos did you have? What temp did you raise your tank to?

 

[clhardy5]

how many gallons is this tank, there's a certain option for smaller system that is very powerful.

It is a 32 gallon biocube. Interested in the powerful fix

 

[brandon429]

Algae Identification

Any opinions on what type of algae this is growing on my rocks and sand bed?

www.reef2reef.com

-do we tend to follow through with predictions or vary wildly in outcomes there


-that is 100% reef surgery, nothing is more thorough.

-substitute any invader you want for the algae they had, it doesn't matter. if you are truly interested in arresting the issue, starting from the clean condition is powerful our pics show, and this is one job of about 400 others can link.

 

[brandon429]

the method does not harm a reef if you run it on a perfectly running tank. here's a 120 gallon doing exactly without variation the steps above.

120 gallon rip clean

I’ve decided to perform a rip clean on my 120 with 100% new water. The tank has been running for 5 years and was battling Dino for several months. I used the bacteria method from elegant corals and worked great I haven’t seen Dino in months now. But I tried several other methods including...

www.reef2reef.com

Jons tank above was -post invasion- when he rip cleans a perfectly working reef as a preventative four times over in that thread. He took our approach to the extreme, which I enjoyed logging on file. This is safe biology we run. Give the links an earnest read, this could be a balance gainer for you.

 

[brandon429]

Corals prefer an overnite option vs months of extended param changes, dosing, response, or the other end of the common spectrum which is to invade your tank fully with gha and cyano

how do our after pics look

 

[brandon429]

I’m sure you wanted something less shocking lol doesn’t everyone though

following the common path gets us dinos though

It seemed logical that in your research identifying them and being unhappy with them you have already seen treatment options for dinos online, huge sticky thread up top etc


we at least didn’t post a common option, common options only help about 30% of the time per the sticky, I think we get twice the compliance rate above.