Hello! Quick question - Has anybody used Dino-X? I have Dinos and was thinking about using it. I have tried most other things but to no avail. All thoughts are welcome! Thanks!
Dino-X to treat Dinos.
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Both nitrates and phosphates are near 0. I have a lot of biological filtration (relative to the fish load) so even when I try to take out the chemipure and the purigen, they still stay at 0. I have even tried to dose nitrates and phosphates but they stay near 0. Obviously, I don't want to dose too much as I have always been told that nothing good happens in a reef tank quickly. 
My tank is about a year old but I have struggled since day 1. I seeded the tank with biological media from a FOWLR tank that I have at home but it does not have the dino problem. They probably came in on a frag. I dip but maybe did not dip enough. Of course I keep my lights lower in that tank so that may have something to do with it.
IMO and what I would do. You need to get your nitrates and phosphates to a measurable level.
If I had a skimmer - shut it off for 12 hours out of the day.
Stop feeding pellets / flakes if doing so
Start feeding frozen - and feed a little more than you think you need. Let there be some leftover food floating around and let your cleanup crew handle it.
Get rid of purigen & chemipure.
Increase flow a bit - and be patient.
Dinos are not something you can prevent from getting in your tank - just like cyano - you just need to make your environment not conducive to an explosion in growth
If I had a skimmer - shut it off for 12 hours out of the day.
Stop feeding pellets / flakes if doing so
Start feeding frozen - and feed a little more than you think you need. Let there be some leftover food floating around and let your cleanup crew handle it.
Get rid of purigen & chemipure.
Increase flow a bit - and be patient.
Dinos are not something you can prevent from getting in your tank - just like cyano - you just need to make your environment not conducive to an explosion in growth
Got it! Thanks! I will do these things and keep working on it. As you know, patience is hard to come by sometimes!
some of us have tried to raise the temp to 82 to get rid of dino.....well at least it worked for me and some people that i know of.
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+1 on getting the nitrates and phosphates up. I would suggest nitrates above 10 ppm and phosphate above 0.05 ppm. Also, turning the skimmer off is very important. Need to let the good bacteria have a chance to multiply before they are removed. It's also better to turn your skimmer off at night. That's when the good bacteria does not have to compete for the nutrients with the photosynthetic Dinos. Dinos and Cyano are attached to surfaces so they don't get skimmed. The way to beat dinos is to get enough good bacteria to outcompete them.
As an experiment last weekend I did something to see if it worked. I have two nano tanks. One is less than a year and has had dinos for two months or so. I wasn’t too worried as I think of this as part of a tank maturing. It wasn’t super bad just mainly on a frag rack. So I knew the phosphate and nitrate levels were higher in my older 30 gallon than the newer 25 lagoon. So I took 2 gallons from the 30 just swapped out two gallons. Next morning dinos were gone and didn’t grow during the day with lights on. For the last week no dinos! So I am a firm believer in some Nitrate and some phosphate being good for a balance. The reason the dinos occurred in the first place was using Vibrant to kill some bubble algae and it zeroed out nitrate and phosphate. Lesson learned
