What Do Dinos Consume to Grow/Multiply?

[Tritie]

I personally would not use organic carbon dosing to try to eradicate dinos since they may well consume the organic perfectly well.

IMO, you want to boost competition, and making sure N and P are readily available, and potentially dosing silicate to spur diatom competition is a good plan.

@Randy Holmes-Farley I would like to spur diatoms as I hear they are good for feeding pods, but I run UV for fish parasites (as well as to continue to fight coolia). On Mack's Dino group they advise against running uv if trying to induce a diatom bloom, but I understand different organisms need different contact times. I've asked on R2R before and on the Dino group but cannot seem to get a contact time for diatoms. Do you know?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

@Randy Holmes-Farley I would like to spur diatoms as I hear they are good for feeding pods, but I run UV for fish parasites (as well as to continue to fight coolia). On Mack's Dino group they advise against running uv if trying to induce a diatom bloom, but I understand different organisms need different contact times. I've asked on R2R before and on the Dino group but cannot seem to get a contact time for diatoms. Do you know?

I'd do it anyway. I don't know contact time for diatoms, but I'm not sure it can prevent them.