Where do the dinos go?

[Just John]

Dinos cover the sand when the lights are on and seem to disappear once the lights are off. Where do they go? Do they just lose their color or enter the water column or die or what?

 

[Tbg299]

Dinos cover the sand when the lights are on and seem to disappear once the lights are off. Where do they go? Do they just lose their color or enter the water column or die or what?

I believe they hide in the water, from what I have read.

 

[Tbg299]

Dinos are protists, so they kind of have a mind of their own, figuratively speaking. Probably more like a "hive mind" similar to fungi.

 

[ahiggins]

They clump up during the light cycle and reduce clumping with no lights which means they’re in the water column. That’s why UV sterilizers in high flow areas work on the ones susceptible to UV.

 

[GHOSTLY]

Dinos cover the sand when the lights are on and seem to disappear once the lights are off. Where do they go? Do they just lose their color or enter the water column or die or what?

Could I see it? I think it goes into the water but I would like to see

 

[cedwards04]

Depends on the strand of dino. Some bury down into the sandbed, some disperse into the water column. This is why you can treat some strands with uv and some are not effected at all by uv.