Refugium

Carlos31 said:
I don't have any in my display tank yet but I was told it could be Dino
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Def Algae problem Bro I just bought 6 handfuls of chaeto from ReefCity Friday and want Mark pulled it out to bag it up looked nothing like your pic ...perhaps the chaeto Xperts will be here shortly ,there stuck on the QT thread at the moment .
 
If the bubbles are actually being produced by the algae it really looks like Dino. The issue there is, you should just pull everything out of that fuge and start over. Dino is something that will take your system over and never look back. If it is just bubbles stuck to the outside of the algae it could be hair algae and could be diatoms. At that point just deal with the nutrient issue and you'll be good to go. Try turning the fuge light off for one night (I know you texted me that you always have it on) and see if the algae shrinks/disappears until you turn the light back on. That is a telltale sign of Dino but not the only indicator.


Personally, if I had something that looked like that in my fuge, and none of it in my DT, I would kill the pumps, siphon the fuge, toss everything in there that can't be bleached and reused, and start the fuge over again. Dino has caused many many reefers to start over and some to just ditch the hobby all together.
 
Thanx guys and ted I sure gonna do that this weekend I been having a busy schedule this week till Saturday I'll be removing all chaeto and restarting my fuge. What should I do to the pieces of live rock that I have in there ?
 
Better nutrient export and a couple turbo snails. What size is your tank, what skimmer, what kind of livestock?
 
Friday night I cleaned out my refugium sucked up ever slimmy stuff n thru out all my chaeto but I'm concern if I should take out my miracle mud also and rocks that I had in there ? Any suggestions ?
 
Carlos31 said:
Friday night I cleaned out my refugium sucked up ever slimmy stuff n thru out all my chaeto but I'm concern if I should take out my miracle mud also and rocks that I had in there ? Any suggestions ?
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I would take everything out of the sump clean and start over. Bleach all equipment that is used.
 
Yes, everything in that fuge, but honestly if the same stuff is in your display tank that might be a waste of time. Dino treatments are weird but with your skimmer you might try carbon/microbacter dosing (addition if microbacter tends to help with slime type "algae"). The other recognized treatment is just letting it starve itself out, meaning no water change, for 3-4 months and dealing with the residual hair algae that will generally pop up in the interim.
 
Right now in my DT it's lil not much but I know it will be appearing some. I did some research an they said turning off the lights for 3 days it may go away for those 3 black out days so I'm trying that for now. But deffinetly I'll be removing my mud n rinsing out my pump n skimmer
 
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