Which one?? Ostreo Dinoflagellates

[Jilly92]

Dealing with dinos since December and once again starting to lose inverts from ostreopsis. Phosphate was .02. What phosphate additive should I use? My plan will be blues only for 5 days ramp down then up, adding peroxide at night. Any other advice?

 

[CoralClasher]

Do you have fish that get food? If you are going to do the light trick I would not dose phosphate till the day you start the lights. If you can see strings of Dino they are probably controlling the nutrients and after a few days you might have plenty of nutrients. I’ve done a few three day blackout and nutrients go up without dosing.

 

[Jilly92]

Do you have fish that get food? If you are going to do the light trick I would not dose phosphate till the day you start the lights. If you can see strings of Dino they are probably controlling the nutrients and after a few days you might have plenty of nutrients. I’ve done a few three day blackout and nutrients go up without dosing.

Yes 3 clowns 1 false lemonpeel. I'm not doing a blackout though, that's too risky for me. I have what looks like huge thick cobwebs on my back glass and balloons on my rocks and more cobwebs on the sand now which I know is totally out of control. Positive ostreopsis ID on my microscope. While I was on vacation I had someone watching the tanks and just gave them the schedule of turning blue on frag tank every other day, which has eradicated the dinos (for now) and now I have some bryopsis. The main tank was on automatic lighting schedule and I wasn't there to blow the rocks off and scrape the back wall, so understandably it's taken over and something drastic has to be done or the corals are gonna start dying off. I thought about adding some macro algae and dosing p04 asap. Why wait for p04?

 

[CoralClasher]

Dino are not fun. DE filters work pretty good. With lights off or down low turn all water movement off for twenty minutes then filter the heck out of the water. Macroalgae doesn’t like hydrogen peroxide and Dino like hanging on it. Neophos by Brightwell is what I’ve used for dosing.

 

[CoralClasher]

If you don’t want to mess with the lights I’ve had good luck with the bacteria method from elegant corals to stop a Dino bloom.

 

[Jilly92]

Dino are not fun. DE filters work pretty good. With lights off or down low turn all water movement off for twenty minutes then filter the heck out of the water. Macroalgae doesn’t like hydrogen peroxide and Dino like hanging on it. Neophos by Brightwell is what I’ve used for dosing.

Whats DE filters? Ya I guess they just want to cover/smother everything. Thank you for the tips! I might try that plan of the peroxide lowlights microbacter7 doesn't work.

 

[CoralClasher]

I use a magnum water polisher with diatomaceous earth. Be careful mixing methods. Don’t dose phosphate if you do the bacteria method but filtering before the bacteria method works.

 

[Jilly92]

I use a magnum water polisher with diatomaceous earth. Be careful mixing methods. Don’t dose phosphate if you do the bacteria method but filtering before the bacteria method works.

Ya someone said to wait until the light come back fully before dosing phos. Diatomaceous earth never heard of it. I will look it up

 

[Jilly92]

I use a magnum water polisher with diatomaceous earth. Be careful mixing methods. Don’t dose phosphate if you do the bacteria method but filtering before the bacteria method works.

Does DE bring on diatoms? It has silicates or something?

 

[CoralClasher]

Diatomaceous earth is diatoms. You can find it at most pool stores.

 

[CoralClasher]

I’m actually charging my DE filters now as a monthly tank cleaning. Five gallon bucket of RODI and 6 TBSP diatom powder run for ten minutes then into tank for 12 hours.

 

[Jilly92]

I’m actually charging my DE filters now as a monthly tank cleaning. Five gallon bucket of RODI and 6 TBSP diatom powder run for ten minutes then into tank for 12 hours.

Wow pretty cool, never seen this method! I will have to try it out for sure, ty

 

[Jilly92]

Wow pretty cool, never seen this method! I will have to try it out for sure, ty

Do you have a cannister filter

 

[CoralClasher]

DE filters are really old school. A good UV filter might be better but I’m too cheap to get a good one.

 

[CoralClasher]

Do you have a cannister filter

Yes but not on my reef tank. Refugium with macros and occasional mechanical filters.