Dino help!

MiniQuaid

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Hi there! Was hoping some of y’all might have some ideas how how to get rid of Dino’s?? Started noticing a small flair up an want to try and get ahead of it before it gets worse!


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Manual removal, water change, total blackout, manual removal, water change... repeat as necessary.

I've read elevated pH can help too.

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IMO - let it happen. Normal size water changes, be sure your filtration is good - don't overfeed etc.

Once I let that process (dino cycle if you will) happen - they went away and have not returned.
 
I HATE dinos. I had it a while back and replaced the sand bed along w a near 100% water change. It tough


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Do you have a microscope to diagnose for sure that it's dinoflagellates and not diatoms? You can also sometimes determine what species with a microscope and different treatments work better on different species. I had mostly ostreopsis and what finally worked for me was a UV sterilizer and 3 day blackout. They actually just came back in the past couple days after two to three weeks of inconsistent care because I was out of town a lot. I think the main thing that made them bloom this time was a lack of nutrients as I wasn't feeding for days at a time in addition to scrubbing off a bunch of nuisance algae that might have been using nutrients before the dinos could. Basically, things got just slightly off balance and they came back. When I got rid of them the first time I also added different types of bacteria, pods, phytoplankton, and macro algae after the blackout to try to diversify my micro flora and fauna.
 
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