dinoflagellates

[ZANYMASTER]

Does anyone know what it is and how to get rid of it?

 

[Solace Aquatics LLC]

I found a great article on it once, but I forget the link, I wil look for it again, but it has something to do with Reef Alchemy.

 

[prattreef]

They are a pain to deal with. Siphon out as much of the snotty brown slime as you can, improve your water quality as much as you can, turn your lights off for as long as you can without killing things and be patient. A UV sterilizer may help too. More often than not they crash and disappear as mysteriously as they appear, but it could take weeks or even months IME.

 

[daaznmofo]

i thought i read somewhere about lowering pH. maybe i'm not remembering right.

 

[pnoyreefer]

Dino are like AEFW on SPS.. They are tough to battle and have know 2 people that have break down the tank due to this. I agree with Randy ..siphon as much as you can .. do waterchange weekly if you can.. About the lights is a 50/50 some tried it for 3 days and Dino is still there. There is a thread over in Rcentral about people battling it and ways to deal with so I suggest check on that forum as well. Goodluck with everything.

 

[daaznmofo]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-11/rhf/index.php

 

[ZANYMASTER]

Actually,I read it was getting the PH higher.Using Kalk slowly to get it up around 8.4.It's a freaking eyesore but will continue to battle until I win won't quit.

 

[daaznmofo]

sorry, i didn't remember which way to go with pH until i re-read it.

 

[Galantra]

Yea it is i currently have it myself and it now attaches it self on my sps and killing it. It has lessen but is still around. I tried rising my PH didn't help much i been in my tank every day stiring the sand and brusing the rocks. I tried also adding the sugar to battle with the nitrates and since i done that it has not been on alot of my rocks. You just have to constanly be on top of your tank.

 

[AlohaTropics]

Hey what ever happened with the Dinoflagellates? How did you get rid of it? I think I've got it now...bubbly snot...

 

[junglebase]

Hey what ever happened with the Dinoflagellates? How did you get rid of it? I think I've got it now...bubbly snot...

All i can say is Yikes, that is the toughest among the reef problems anyone can encounter!!! i believe he got rid of it by breaking down his tank.....

 

[AlohaTropics]

Well that just sucks. I'm trying to raise my pH up to around 8.5. Also gonna try Chemi Clean. Heard that helped a lot of people with no side effects.

 

[ZANYMASTER]

Chemi Clean is only good for Cyanobacteria I believe.This is a old thread.It beat me and I since set up a new tank some time ago Felix.

 

[AlohaTropics]

Wow, sorry to hear. I'm pretty determined to beat this thing. Its only in my frag tanks so thats good. My frag tanks are bare bottom so I can just pull out the egg crates, rinse them off and syphon anything out that was under them.

Chem clean says it kills off bubble producing the algae, so I'll give it a try. It seems as I raise the pH (at around 8.4 right now) they dont grow as much. We'll see. Fortunately, it hasn't affected my corals at all.

Question, why I blow this stuff around, it turns white and a lot of it actually floats to the top of the tank where I can just scoop it out. Is this the dead algae thats white? It looks like white snot.

 

[fali]

If its that brown slimey stuff that looks and feels like jelly, had that problem too. I had a bare bottom tank, didn't do water changes, used tap water, no macro algae for nutrient export and it got out of control. Once i added a skimmer, set it on full blast, then added sand it completely disappeared after a while and never returned. I also still use tap and have no macro algae.