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Jilly92 · Apr 11, 2021

So I have ostreopsis dinos..AGAIN. 3 months after a devastating tank crash! I first started my main display tank with tap, all of my corals were beautiful and I didn't have any problems except some hair algae. Started using strictly RODI around October and nutrients bottom out and I get dinos. I think I may start adding 5 gallons of conditioned tap to help with nutrients. Does anyone else do this or use tap?

Red_Beard · Apr 11, 2021

My nutrients crashed and I got dinos early on too. I ended up dosing both neonitro and neophos from brightwell. They worked really good to keep nutrients up and stabile. I would hesitate to use tap water because of too many unknowns. If you look at the “permissible” limits of elements in the municipal water quality report you may be surprised what all could potentially be in your tap water. If it was a one time thing it would probably be fine, but if used as a top off source, those levels would climb over time.

Jilly92 · Apr 11, 2021

Red_Beard said:
My nutrients crashed and I got dinos early on too. I ended up dosing both neonitro and neophos from brightwell. They worked really good to keep nutrients up and stabile. I would hesitate to use tap water because of too many unknowns. If you look at the “permissible” limits of elements in the municipal water quality report you may be surprised what all could potentially be in your tap water. If it was a one time thing it would probably be fine, but if used as a top off source, those levels would climb over time.

I may try 5 gallons a month. I will look into neophos. Have you gotten dinos since? Did you blackout or use any other method?

Red_Beard · Apr 11, 2021

Nope, no dinos since. But, to be fair nutrients in the tank are now on the high side.
All i did for dino remediation was to siphon out as much as i could once a week and get my nutients up, both po4 and no3.
Edit: It did take about a month for eveything to stabilize and the dinos to clear once i started dosing, but it did steadily improve from about a week in.

Jilly92 · Apr 12, 2021

Red_Beard said:
Nope, no dinos since. But, to be fair nutrients in the tank are now on the high side.
All i did for dino remediation was to siphon out as much as i could once a week and get my nutients up, both po4 and no3.
Edit: It did take about a month for eveything to stabilize and the dinos to clear once i started dosing, but it did steadily improve from about a week in.

Ok cool, thank you

monkeyCmonkeyDo · Apr 12, 2021

ImaFlippinDolphin · Apr 12, 2021

Tap isn't the easy answer, nitrate is...hear me out. Your tank is new, it has no bioload so dinos can sneak in. You need to add fish or dose nitrate. Tap water is a terrible idea and won't buy much time between outbreaks

Jilly92 · Apr 12, 2021

monkeyCmonkeyDo said:
Fts?

monkeyCmonkeyDo · Apr 12, 2021

What do you have for flow? How bigs your display? I would stop doing wcs and do wcs more spread out with rodi water. No silicate.
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ScottR · Apr 12, 2021

Have you tested your nutrients so you know where they are? I wouldn’t immediately blame RODI. Sometimes when one algae goes away, dinos come in because there’s not much competition but as your tank progresses, other algae and organisms take hold and fight each other for space.

Jilly92 · Apr 12, 2021

ImaFlippinDolphin said:
Tap isn't the easy answer, nitrate is...hear me out. Your tank is new, it has no bioload so dinos can sneak in. You need to add fish or dose nitrate. Tap water is a terrible idea and won't buy much time between outbreaks

I've been running high nitrates

monkeyCmonkeyDo · Apr 12, 2021

Dont dose anything. Looks beautiful.
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ScottR · Apr 12, 2021

monkeyCmonkeyDo said:
What do you have for flow? How bigs your display? I would stop doing wcs and do wcs more spread out with rodi water. No silicate.
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Many people dose silicates to their display to fight dinos to help diatoms to grow. Diatoms are short lived and not as much of a nuisance.