Struggling with dinos

dwest · Jan 31, 2020

Qasimja said:
got a link to the one you used?

You get what you pay for. But it was good enough to id my dinos.

Qasimja · Jan 31, 2020

dwest said:
You get what you pay for. But it was good enough to id my dinos.

thanks i was just lookin for a cheap one so i wouldnt waste a lot of money tryin to id the dinos i have and finally knock these out for good

taricha · Jan 31, 2020

saltyhog said:
I may be misremembering but I believe our resident dino expert (@taricha) actually grew out a strain of dinos in complete darkness for a long period of time. I suspect they are never completely dependent on photosynthesis.

Yep. It was large cell amphidinium, and they lost some photosynthetic pigments over 2 weeks in darkness, but they didn't care. No decrease in population or in their movement. Still scooting around.
Edit: darkness is useful for pushing dinos around, but not for killing them.

Mtb_reefer · Jan 31, 2020

Seems like I have some reading up to do lol

Mtb_reefer · Feb 13, 2020

Update on the Dino situation. I got home home from working out of town a few days ago and this is what the tank looked like! I definitely think I’m winning this war now. I’ll post params and my coarse of action if anyone is interested.

Jason mack · Feb 13, 2020

Add lots of phytoplankton and copepods..

zalick · Feb 14, 2020

Mtb_reefer said:
Update on the Dino situation. I got home home from working out of town a few days ago and this is what the tank looked like! I definitely think I’m winning this war now. I’ll post params and my coarse of action if anyone is interested.

Please do

Mtb_reefer · Feb 16, 2020

zalick said:
Please do

So initially I started with water changes, 5g once a week. But that really had no effect or maybe even a negative effect it was keeping NO3 and PO4 at undetectable levels. So I stopped the water changes and started dosing vibrant at 3ml per 20gal weekly, added pods and started feeding more often.other than that just really aggressive manual removal. I’ve been testing every two days watching NO3 and PO4. Today it tested at: salinity 35ppt alk 7.1 ca 475 ph 8.6 no3 3ppm po4 0.03ppm