Anyone ever beat dinoflagellates?

Tangwich · Mar 21, 2015

Good news is I have never had to deal with dino in any of my past tanks. Bad news is that now I am fighting a losing battle against it in my sps tank. Weird part is that, as some of you know, my sps tanks is connected to an lps/softy tank and my show fuge and neither of the other two tanks show any signs of this nuisance algae.

Am trying to get ideas on how to eradicate it before I just decide to hit the restart button. Anyone successfully beat dino? If so, what did you do and for how long? Thnx

watchguy123 · Mar 21, 2015

Take a look at these, there are lots more threads

http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/ree...ng-tool.html?highlight=Dino+hydrogen+peroxide

http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/ree...e-dinos.html?highlight=Dino+hydrogen+peroxide

http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/ree...de-reef.html?highlight=Dino+hydrogen+peroxide

Tangwich · Mar 21, 2015

watchguy123 said:

Thanks Mark...sadly I tried peroxide and this strain is the toxic type that looked at me as I injected peroxide and it laughed in ny face. Tried manual removal and water changes and nothing. Comes back like homer Simpson's beard 10 seconds after he shaves. Lol

Tangwich · Mar 21, 2015

Did a lot of research and my last resort is black out for 3 days, just worried about my sps.

newtothis · Mar 21, 2015

This is how I treated mine.
Lg WC (siphon out as much as I can, than I netted all free floaters).
Taped my tank with trash bags(even the top /cover) for 4 days.
Dosed 2 bottle of bacteria(instant ocean bio-spira, or anything you can get ypur hands on)
I have also read, that something in brightwell magnesium that helps eliminate it as well.
Basically you have a nutrient/ bacteria unbalance in your tank. Whats bottling, is that your their tank is uneffected
GL, broheim

Tangwich · Mar 21, 2015

newtothis said:

Cool thnx...now for some questions..

1. Will my sps be unnafected or should I move them to another friends tank?
2. Do I have to black out all 3 tanks or just the sps tank since they all share the same water?
3. How long did you go lights out for it to work?

newtothis · Mar 21, 2015

Tangwich said:

1. Your sps, lps, zoas will be fine. In nature, they go through days (evn weeks) with no sunlight, due to storms/ hurricanes and adverse weather conditions.
2. Sure, why not.
3. I went 4 days of total darkness. Basically you don't want no light penitration, to give them any hope. All the articles that I've read, basically said to do a 3 day of darkness, but none ever mentioned to cover the top or to dose bacteria. From my research, it stated that, the beneficial bacteria has either insufficient or none to counter the dinoflagellates invasion. Hence my decision to to do a complete blackout with covers and to dose bacteria. The lights was also off for the durations of treatment. Keep in mind, that their are a few variety of dinoflagellates (some are easier to eradicate than 0thers)

newtothis · Mar 21, 2015

Tangwich said:

1. Your sps, lps, zoas will be fine. In nature, they go through days (evn weeks) with no sunlight, due to storms/ hurricanes and adverse weather conditions.
2. Sure, why not.
3. I went 4 days of total darkness. Basically you don't want no light penitration, to give them any hope. All the articles that I've read, basically said to do a 3 day of darkness, but none ever mentioned to cover the top or to dose bacteria. From my research, it stated that, the beneficial bacteria has either insufficient or none to counter the dinoflagellates invasion. Hence my decision to to do a complete blackout with covers and to dose bacteria. The lights was also off for the durations of treatment. Keep in mind, that their are a few variety of dinoflagellates (some are easier to eradicate than 0thers)

Tangwich · Mar 21, 2015

newtothis said:

1. Your sps, lps, zoas will be fine. In nature, they go through days (evn weeks) with no sunlight, due to storms/ hurricanes and adverse weather conditions.
2. Sure, why not.
3. I went 4 days of total darkness. Basically you don't want no light penitration, to give them any hope. All the articles that I've read, basically said to do a 3 day of darkness, but none ever mentioned to cover the top or to dose bacteria. From my research, it stated that, the beneficial bacteria has either insufficient or none to counter the dinoflagellates invasion. Hence my decision to to do a complete blackout with covers and to dose bacteria. The lights was also off for the durations of treatment. Keep in mind, that their are a few variety of dinoflagellates (some are easier to eradicate than 0thers)

Great, will try that and report back. Thnx

JOSE CASAS · Mar 21, 2015

Jess try Rowaphos and should take care of your problem. U have high elevated silicates. Wish u luck.

Tangwich · Mar 21, 2015

JOSE CASAS said:

That's what so puzzling profe....I just got my results and all my levels were spot on.

Silica: 0.5
Phosphates: 0.02
Nitrates: 0.9

Tangwich · Mar 21, 2015

But I will try rowaphos first and see if the profe still has it. Lol

djam · Mar 21, 2015

I just beat mine this week. I've been fighting it for 4 months and it was getting worse and worse, to the point where I was considering a complete shutdown, scrap all my rock and corals (keeping my fish in a temp solution) and starting again. I was doing water changes every week and all that seemed to do was make it grow faster.

I did 3 things 2 weeks ago and here is what I did.

1. Changed out all the filters on my RO/DI (they were only 4 months old, but I suspected them)
2. I had a power failure on my maxaspect lights, so landed up running only 2 of the 4 lights (tank looks kind of dark).
3. Added Phosguard and Purigen
4. Dumped a 1/2 of bottle of bacteria in the tank (I was thinking this was a problem).
5. siphoned everything I could in a big 60g water change over two days.
6. went out of town
7. the person who was supposed to feed my tank, well she kind of sort of forgot 1/2 the time.

My rocks are now bare and my corals seem happy.

Tangwich · Mar 21, 2015

JOSE CASAS said:

Oh yeah, it's official..you just got your max 11th polyp via yours truly. Dont ever forget who gave it to you hard...no jomo lmao

Tangwich · Mar 21, 2015

djam said:

I just beat mine this week. I've been fighting it for 4 months and it was getting worse and worse, to the point where I was considering a complete shutdown, scrap all my rock and corals (keeping my fish in a temp solution) and starting again. I was doing water changes every week and all that seemed to do was make it grow faster.

I did 3 things 2 weeks ago and here is what I did.

1. Changed out all the filters on my RO/DI (they were only 4 months old, but I suspected them)
2. I had a power failure on my maxaspect lights, so landed up running only 2 of the 4 lights (tank looks kind of dark).
3. Added Phosguard and Purigen
4. Dumped a 1/2 of bottle of bacteria in the tank (I was thinking this was a problem).
5. siphoned everything I could in a big 60g water change over two days.
6. went out of town
7. the person who was supposed to feed my tank, well she kind of sort of forgot 1/2 the time.

My rocks are now bare and my corals seem happy.

Thanks for chiming in....at this point, the algae is getting a hold of the base of my sps frags and starting to choke them out so am gonna go shopping tomorrow and also cut down the light schedule and see how it goes. Thnx again.

JOSE CASAS · Mar 21, 2015

Tangwich said:

lmao.....

JOSE CASAS · Mar 21, 2015

also try to keep the tank temp close to 77

dose bac
skim wet
use filter sock to catch all the crap, then change out 1-2 days
siphon out all that you can
lots of flow hth

are you bb in that tank.?

Tangwich · Mar 21, 2015

JOSE CASAS said:

Check
Check
Check
Check
And check

And yes bb

newtothis · Mar 21, 2015

JOSE CASAS said:

Jesse is always BB..

JOSE CASAS · Mar 21, 2015

crank the floe in that tank my brotha....Preferably the return.

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