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anarchy
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Yeah and of course the worst comes when im trying to get my tank perfect. It happens i guess. Not sure how i even got them
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anarchy
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But honestly though i like the way my tank is looking minus dino and bubble algae
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Thanks. Honestly i think its a very weak strain. Ive had it for atleast a week or 2 and all the bubbles go away each night and slowly come back throughout the day and it never really grows. The plan is to buy a couple bags of pods. Toss them in and do a 3 day blackout. Havnt done a waterchange in a month but last week i did add 2 gallons of fresh saltwater when the ato went out. So nitrate and phos should be getting up there and the tank is getting dirty. Ill see if the pods and black out does anything and then ill go from there
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xj_matt
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I think I am fighting them too !!!
anarchy
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anarchy
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Does is have all the bubbles in it? And its it brown and stringy?
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Someone just beat dinos in their 180 but i cant remember who it is. Once i figure it out im going to tag them for an id
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Yeah he had a really strong strain that the lighting and peroxide and everything else wouldnt take care of
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[MENTION=50]DanSreef[/MENTION] since you just won your battle with dinos does this look like it to you. Does to me and i know its not for sure unless looked at under microscope but do you think it is?Well my battle with dinos has started
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DanSreef
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Yeah... It was me. Get a sample under microscope. If you have large quantifies of free moving single cell organisms...you got DINOs.
For me they were more of a rust color....not really slimy looking.....almost dust like. I tried blackouts, hydrogen peroxide.... DinoX...just about everything under the sun. I made sure it was DINOs....and then I got dirty. Let the nitrates creep up... Let phosphates go up... In fact... They are still high today. I have a fox face, Naso, yellow and a Tomini tang. Thus far very little algae growth in the tank with those pigs. The idea is let the green algae grow and out compete this strain of DINOs....which worked for me.
Suffice to say... DINOs suck! My variety REALLY Sucked!
For me they were more of a rust color....not really slimy looking.....almost dust like. I tried blackouts, hydrogen peroxide.... DinoX...just about everything under the sun. I made sure it was DINOs....and then I got dirty. Let the nitrates creep up... Let phosphates go up... In fact... They are still high today. I have a fox face, Naso, yellow and a Tomini tang. Thus far very little algae growth in the tank with those pigs. The idea is let the green algae grow and out compete this strain of DINOs....which worked for me.
Suffice to say... DINOs suck! My variety REALLY Sucked!
DanSreef
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Two other ideas that I also leveraged....crank up the flow in your tank.... They don't like high flow... Won't get rid of them...but they don't like it. Second....do you have a fuge? I started a small one...and kept light on in the display for a short period...like 3-4 hours for a couple of weeks. They moved to the fuge...and were much easier to siphon out.
One other thing I heard from Matt up at show tank.... Take out a lot of the blue if you are running LEDs. I was much more blue than I am now. I had read that some varieties like the more blue color spectrum...
The key is making sure you have DINOs by ID'ing under microscope. Then just start working through solutions. If you get lucky you care for it with one quickly. If not....you lose all your corals like I did....I am just now starting to test things with some frags... Good Luck!
One other thing I heard from Matt up at show tank.... Take out a lot of the blue if you are running LEDs. I was much more blue than I am now. I had read that some varieties like the more blue color spectrum...
The key is making sure you have DINOs by ID'ing under microscope. Then just start working through solutions. If you get lucky you care for it with one quickly. If not....you lose all your corals like I did....I am just now starting to test things with some frags... Good Luck!
anarchy
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Thanks for all the help. My tank seems to take care of the dinos on its own. They go away each night and slowly come back. Havnt seen much growth out of them thats why im thinking the 3 day blackout may work for these. Ill update once i start taking care of the issue
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