Worms Are Eating My Dinoflagellates

[NCreefguy]

Does anyone else know anything about these worms? I can't find a definite answer as to what they are except maybe nematode or ciliate.(and both might be wrong)
I've been battling dinos for probably a year now and nothing has really worked for me or not entirely. I've tried everything from pods/phyto/raising no3/po4/ dinoX /blackouts/h2o2 you name it,I've more than likely tried it. I thought that I was getting somewhere at one point with a few experiments that I was working with on the side but it didn't quite pan out.

Over the past couple months or so(about once a week I look at the dinos under a scope) these worms show up and I've noticed that they are eating the dinos. I have no clue as to where these came from but I do appreciate them eating the dinos for me.
I've got a few tests going now to see if I can get these to reproduce so I can reintroduce them into the tank in greater numbers.

 

[Ty Hamatake]

Breed 'em 'n sell 'em!!!!

 

[NCreefguy]

Breed 'em 'n sell 'em!!!!

To be honest with all the stress that the dinos has caused me, I'd be happy just to get them to clear the dinos from my tank.

 

[Ty Hamatake]

To be honest with all the stress that the dinos has caused me, I'd be happy just to get them to clear the dinos from my tank.

Ha ha, well either way I will be following this thread closely.

 

[Wet_Fretboards]

Breed 'em 'n sell 'em!!!!

I'll take a gallon, please... ;Dead:mad:;Spitoutdummy

 

[Ty Hamatake]

I'll take a gallon, please... ;Dead:mad:;Spitoutdummy

Right? I really want to know if these are common, or if we're at ground zero of something huge! Hey @saltyfilmfolks, do you know anything about these?

 

[NCreefguy]

I'll take a gallon, please... ;Dead:mad:;Spitoutdummy

Hahahaha

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Right? I really want to know if these are common, or if we're at ground zero of something huge! Hey @saltyfilmfolks, do you know anything about these?

Lol.
So I have a confession. I have never had Dino's.
I live in San Diego where it's common to use natural seawater in the tanks. Its only barely filtered by a large settling tank and silica filter.
I don't know af anyone who uses it who has had Dino's.

I put stuff in my tank right from the ocean like a idiot

I dry rock and sand cycled a tank and useing sweater and Fiji mud. I got all kinds of micro fauna.

No dinos.

Jus Sayin.

Who want a bottle of my tank water?

 

[Ty Hamatake]

Lol.
So I have a confession. I have never had Dino's.
I live in San Diego where it's common to use natural seawater in the tanks. Its only barely filtered by a large settling tank and silica filter.
I don't know af anyone who uses it who has had Dino's.

I put stuff in my tank right from the ocean like a idiot

I dry rock and sand cycled a tank and useing sweater and Fiji mud. I got all kinds of micro fauna.

No dinos.

Jus Sayin.

Who want a bottle of my tank water?

I'll take two!

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I'll take two!

$259.56. PayPal only.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Everything eats everything in the ocean food web is what I was tought.
From GARF and Paul B and Julian Sprung , I kinda followed biodiversity as a rule. So having no money for spendy additives and bottles of stuff, I put mud in my tank.

 

[Ty Hamatake]

Everything eats everything in the ocean food web is what I was tought.
From GARF and Paul B and Julian Sprung , I kinda followed biodiversity as a rule. So having no money for spendy additives and bottles of stuff, I put mud in my tank.

Do you have any suggestions to up one's biodiversity that doesn't have reasonable access to the ocean?

 

[Ghxst]

I have images from my microscope like that worm but it's just on a regular strand of algea. I think they just live on or eat all Kinds and everyone has them?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Do you have any suggestions to up one's biodiversity that doesn't have reasonable access to the ocean?

GARF grunge at GARF.org. You can find them on face book.
The Fiji mud was wild. Got corraline I've never seen before and sponges and tuncates and such.
Some of the Wild live rock vendors in fla also sell sand full of bugs.

 

[NCreefguy]

GARF grunge at GARF.org. You can find them on face book.
The Fiji mud was wild. Got corraline I've never seen before and sponges and tuncates and such.
Some of the Wild live rock vendors in fla also sell sand full of bugs.

It's been yearrrrrsss since I've heard anything about Garf.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

It's been yearrrrrsss since I've heard anything about Garf.

Right????

Sally jo has been in pretty poor health so not as active. She seems to have put together a few good folks to help her out now.

As a working guy with time I his hands , I read every crazy page of their website. (Yes still looks like 1993), really shaped my reefing.

Kinda funny so many folks Poo poo GARF.
But some of thier corals are still legendary.

 

[NCreefguy]

Right????

Sally jo has been in pretty poor health so not as active. She seems to have put together a few good folks to help her out now.

As a working guy with time I his hands , I read every crazy page of their website. (Yes still looks like 1993), really shaped my reefing.

Kinda funny so many folks Poo poo GARF.
But some of thier corals are still legendary.

Oh man looking at their site you're right nothing has changed in all these years. It's like a walk down memory lane.

 

[Ty Hamatake]

GARF grunge at GARF.org. You can find them on face book.
The Fiji mud was wild. Got corraline I've never seen before and sponges and tuncates and such.
Some of the Wild live rock vendors in fla also sell sand full of bugs.

SWEET! I didn't know they had this stuff. I have their site bookmarked for their propagation techniques, but had no idea they had as much other stuff as they do!

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Friend them on the FB. Some great pics of 12in deep sand beds probably as old as me.

GARF bonsai growing right next to shrooms And softies and pretty much blowing away mist methods of "modern" reefing.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

SWEET! I didn't know they had this stuff. I have their site bookmarked for their propagation techniques, but had no idea they had as much other stuff as they do!

I blew it a while ago. Five corals shipped for $120.
Idiot!