Brown dino problem?

[Mattl22]

Having a real bad brown cyano or dinoflag.... Problem some of my zoos are closed up will chemi clean red slime remover help this at all ? I'm thinking about a 40% wc but usually do 8 gallons every 2 weeks gonna do like 30 gal try and nip this thing now it's gettin worse and worse
Any tips ?
Thanks for ur help

 

[MIKE NY]

it's brown with some bubbles and stringy causing zoas etc.. to keep closed it's dino...DON"T use red slime remover!.....water changes, carbon maybe increase or change more often your phosban...it's caused by high phos, nitrates, silicates etc...even though your test kits are reading zero they are there because the dino is growing....

 

[Mattl22]

Mike I changed my carbon and phosban and added extra and phosban i'm gonna do a 20 gal wc tomorrow I turned the lights off should I keep them off for a day or 2 ?

 

[MIKE NY]

turning the lights off for a few days may or may not help...it never did for me, but a few days w/o lights may effect some corals. Whenever I get dinos I do daily 5-7 gallon water changes siphoning the sand along with an old toothbrush on the rocks getting out as much as I could...along with my usual weekly water change does the trick in a week or so....got them the last time from over dosing AAs and feeding too much...

 

[JimmyR1rider]

Turning your lights off doesnt rid you of the problem, it masks it.

As soon as you reintroduce your original lighting cycle back in you'll have a repeat performance of the nuisance you're trying to get rid of. You have to rid the system of whats causing it by narrowing it down. Once you find out what it is you can then use any chemicals or what not to keep it away.

Good luck

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

Do you run ro/di?? Maybe you have to change pads? Do you have a tds meter, i need to stop by and see whats going on

 

[ZANYMASTER]

Large wc's won't help cause it may cause a mini-cycle.Smaller ones and use good carbon cause all will leach Po4's back into the tank.If it's Dino Flagellates,it's a tough one to get rid of.They feed on iron and wc's make it worse.Gotta starve it out.Getting the PH like to 8.6 will help too short term.

 

[Mattl22]

Ok so I'm gonna turn lights on when I get home and do a 5 gal wc I'll do them every day for a week see how that goes
Jarrett Lmk when u can stop by could use some feed back on tank and the way its set up !


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[Mattl22]

Today I'm gonna do my 3rd 5 gal water change my corals seem pretty pissed with all the tinkering going on one really green sps lost alot of color hopefully 3 more 5 gal wc over next 3 days will do the trick

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[Mattl22]

Ok done 5 5 gal wc tank looks better but still getting alot of Dino my clean water has po4 in it but I'm getting 0 tds do I need a new membrane


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[MIKE NY]

0 reading coming out of the unit the membrane is good ...there maybe some phos in the salt mix..what salt are you using?

 

[Mattl22]

Instant ocean I switched to tropic marine for a bit but didn't notice a difference for. Double the price


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[MIKE NY]

I've been using IO for years too without a problem..just have to bump up the cal and mag which I buy in bulk. I've tried different brands over the years and couldn't justify the extra expense either...how are you testing the phos?

 

[Mattl22]

I'm using a test kit I know they suck I had a Hanna checker the 50$ one and thought it was worthless

 

[MIKE NY]

so are test kits...LOL mine always read 0, but sometimes I still get algae issues...you got a PM

 

[Mattl22]

This is starting to kill my corals lost like 4 sps frags I have a new air water ice rodi coming this week so I turning lights out for 3 days then when I get new rodi I'm gonna do 15 gal wc 2 a week

 

[ZANYMASTER]

You did not specify with if it's the brown Dino or the Other one that looks like snot?Snot one is Dino flagellates.It took out my 90g some time ago.

 

[Mattl22]

It is Dino flagnettes


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[Mattl22]

It killed everything in ur 90 ?? Couldn't get a Handel on it??


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[ZANYMASTER]

Nope.Tried the lights off for 24 hours but it comes back.There was one thing I bought that kind of worked which was some German Product called Ultra Algae X.it's very potent and if used wrong,it can kill your fish.