Who has won the war on dinos?

[wareagle]

I consider mine to be under control. I only have a very small spot of them on the sand. I had a very mild case compared to some of the horror shots on here I've seen people dealing with. I had zero phosphates because I didn't follow the directions on Phosguard and believed it would actually leave the P04 at .002. I went to zero P04 and ended up with Dino's on the sand bed and on the glass along the sand bed. I noticed the biggest change when I started dosing neophos and the Dino's have slowly been replaced by algea and cyano. Some of the cyano is even going away on it's own. I took direct action against them with a UV light that is meant to go in a sump/filter. I made a shield and handle for it, then I held it directly on them on the sand, they are dying. Let me know if you want to see a picture of the UV contraption I made.

 

[Jonreefer]

I battled with them for a while. I had them down to just a few strands here and there. I put a 24w UV on my 40B and ran it for 2weeks. They were totally gone from anywhere in the tank. I had a bunch of other algae growing and was good. They showed up again about 2weeks ago. Ran the UV again for a week and it seem to do nothing. Right now I am dosing DinoX and did a 3day blackout. I pulled off my coverup and I can see where all the Dino were its just a bunch of white stringy stuff left which i assume is dead Dino groups. I am going to continue my DinoX treatment for another 10days. So I am having up and down battle with them

 

[Acuario]

Osteo, gone in a day with an oversized UV. I lost too many sps. That was almost a year ago now.

 

[Ernie C]

Osteo, gone in a day with an oversized UV. I lost too many sps. That was almost a year ago now.

Did you ever remove the UV?

 

[Acuario]

No, my tank is doing great. I kept the UV and removed my skimmer.

 

[Rich Klein]

Osteo.

"Let nature clean it up with a bit of help from my wifes toothbrush."

LOL - have beaten Dino the same way.

1) Add NO3 and PO4 to ~ 10 and .1 respectively to encourage macro algae growth. Plus I dosed a bit of silicate a couple of times. Backed-off of both when hair algae started blooming along with some pretty colors of Cyano.
2) Let the tank heal naturally. All Dino was gone in 4 weeks after doing the above, and that was 3 months ago. Did some major siphoning of crud as the Dino began to die.
3) Added Pods, worms, brittle stars, and many pin cushion urchins .

My corals made it through and are thriving. I'm doing what I hope is the final hand removal of Hair and Turf algae, and am using my wife's toothbrush. I did giver her a new one though. ;-).

 

[Tamberav]

ostreopsis dinoflagellates

Took me 4 days to kill it using DIY coral snow and blowing it off the rocks/corals. Was going to hook up UV but didn't have to. Been a few short months I think?

Also nutrients did raise a bit on their own during it.

 

[Hemmdog]

I had dinos in my 90 gal month 4. It killed all my sps from my tank transfer and a few lps. I had it for about 2 months due to low nutrients in a new tank. I introduced a few more fish to always have detectable nutrient and haven’t seen any dinos since.

 

[MTBake]

I battled ostreopsis for 5 months.

I beat them with increasing no3 and po4 and adding a UV into the display. I use the 24 watt green killing machine in my 40 breeder.

They've been gone for almost a month now.

 

[dugthefish]

I didn't want to buy a UV or use chemical treatments. I beat them with a fairly simple and holistic approach: increase nutrients (via dosing, reducing skimmer runtime), increase biodiversity (several Dr Tim's products, pods/phyto, rock/sand from a different system), reduced photo period/intensity, and manual removal. Haven't seen any in a couple months.