Legit Answer to Beating Dino in 2021 (Amphidinium dinoflagellates in reef tank) 

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Good info. Glad you got it under control.

Your videos are always a blast

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Congratulations on the victory!

SEE YA 🦖! Well done on the war! Great update and always good to see a success story with what worked and what didn’t! Nice video!

Love your posters, tanks beautiful as well

Great video bro!!

Great information!

Appreciate the time you put into this video! Just got my first case of dinos and they appear to be amphidinium like yours. So frustrated! Well going to start by bumping nitrates and go to battle! Lets do this!

Amazing video as usual. Congrats on 60k🐠🦑🦐🦀🐠

Turned out so good 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

What's up man!! I haven't seen your videos in years! Your tank looks great 👍 👏 I remember being a member of your comment section from like 4-5 years ago when we convinced you to switch from using Walmart RO water that had like 200 tds!! I'm gonna be a frequent watcher of youtube again and look forward to binge watching this tank build playlist

Job well done Mis is just about almost gone as well I just took the approach with Dr. Tams refresh and waste away then I just let my tank go on and my tank is starting to look good as well

Good job beating the dinos! Just got a Fiji leopard wrasse and a Solon wrasse this morning!

Good job

Thumb up pal you did great job. i beat mine by accident but a good accident 😆😆I had caulerpa algae on my live rock only a tiny bit and I had green hair algae then the hair algae spread like wild fire and then the caulerpa algae grew starved out the hair algae and got rid of all my syno algae. I now keep caulerpa algae in my tank all the time thick and no algae at all it's a miracle algae I highly recommend it to any saltwater aquariums. Love your channel. And love your tank keep up all your hard work....

Congrats! I did too. I hooked Seachem Phosphorus and Nitrogen up to an auto-doser until cyanobacteria exploded. It's still exploded however I have setup a algae turf scrubber in my sump and have already harvested a decent amount of turf algae from it. The turf algae in my display has stopped growing and the cyanobacteria is somewhat subsiding. There's no more Dino and no bubble algae currently.

Great video. I’m dealing with this now I think in my 25 gallon after getting through a diatom bloom. My nitrates were at 15 so I did a 25% water change but might need to feed heavy to get ‘em back up. Im also seeing a lot of algae on the glass so I’ll leave that there to help outcompete these Dino’s!

thank you for this. i just bought the pocket microscope to id what i have. i thought i may have diatom... but it looks like i may have dino based on your experience. thank you for the vid!!!

Thats great. I just beat the same Dinos myself in just under 3 weeks. Raised my tank temp to 82.5 and increased the bioload by adding 2 more fish and feeding more (My tank was too clean). Tiger Conch was also a beast eating the dinos like crazy. My tanks a Waterbox Cube 20

Sick tank

I beat mine about a week ago. Raised the temp to 82, raised nitrates, and phos, then dosed silica. Just in time to transfer everything over to a 180 in a couple of weeks.

WOW! I think this video just gave me a revelation! I have been batting my brains outs as to why the dinos are no longer on my sand bed and rocks but still all over the walls! I was just about to switch what I am doing and move on to something else. If I understood correctly are you saying that that is the good bacteria or is that the last to go is on the glass? . Its been such a long battle but I do remember at one time the sand was snotty. I had been dosing mb7 and vibrant about every 3 days. The last month or so I increased it to every night alternating each one and added 2 low watt in sump uv sterilizers. Its been a while since I could see the whole sand bed from acclimating 2 batches of corals. Today I turned all white on and sure enough not a speck of red/brown or anything. But the funny thing is I have some dusty stuff covering on my rocks. After watching this it made me think maybe its the dinso that were once on rocks desinagrating and maybe thats why its looking dusty! The up close of the glass on your looks exactly like mine! You are saying you beat it so I guess I have to! YAY! If I keep dosing will the glass keep looking like that? I am a little confused as to why you said you kicked it yet its still on glass so please explain! PLEASE Thanks . I love you and your wife! You guys are so cute together!

Thank you for the video. I have a 240g (48x48x24) tank that has been up and running almost a year. I have been battling dino and cyano for the last 3 to 4 months. Phosphate has been in the range you mentioned, however with my API test, the Nitrates read 0. I understand the API test kits are not the best out there. Anyways, I'm going to give the Ocean Magik from Algae barn a try. I have been dosing the Brightwell bacteria and will continue. Looks like I've been committing the cardinal sin of syphoning and disturbing my sand bed, which I will stop. Thanks again for the video. Ted

Just wanted to share with you. Houston and I had a breakout in the 125. We used dino-x and within 2 days it was all gone. (ALL) gone and now 1 month later it is still all gone. Since then though we connected a Icecap turf scrubber so not sure if that is why the dino (AND) algae has not come back but I promise that dino-x with beat anything on the market in it is the 1 single product on the market that i would stand behind 100%.

I want you know I watch all your RU-vid videos and the one about the dinos I learn from your mistakes and that’s why I went a completely different direction than you and also I raise my temperature to 81 1/2°. I’ve been in the fishtanks for less than 11 months I was scared so bad with the Dino and I can’t believe how easy I beat it out. It was a mess in the beginning. Hope you have a happy free Dino life

The goby pack , awesome

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I've been battling this since January of 2021...it's been a long grind. Just started dosing SpongeExcel to try and induce a diatom bloom. These things are a NIGHTMARE. Thanks for this video.

I love the thumbnail 😆😆

Mr. clean that’s a good look on you

Did you not do any water changes? Or water changes without touching the sand or glass? I have SCA right now

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I recently set up with dry rock.... well I've had about 10 setups since 1998. All my previous setups were with LR. This new setup I had Dino for the first time in my reefing career. Dumped in a bunch of live phyto i'm talking 500ml a day for a week. This did the trick and I'd recommend this approach to anyone. Well done for winning the battle though mate

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Thank you, lost 3 torches (I'm super bummed). Going to battle it with sponge excel, and microbacter 7. And getting my nitrates and phosphate balanced. And stop scrubbing my tank with a tooth brush.

Great overview of your experience and great guidelines. Luckily my dino was the other type and my cheap UV sterilizer and a little hydrogen peroxide helped too.

What test kit did you use to test for silicates while dosing and what ppm range did you aim for? I’m going to begin dosing silicates for the same type of dinos as soon as my waterglass arrives.

Cerith snails and nertile snails took care of my bloom, and allowed me to get the cycle back in check, using stability and prime, and trace elements, and new UV filter bulb, mine had burned out and I didn't know. Since you don't wanna starve your clean up crew, feed them cucumber chunks if there is nothing left for them to eat. Will keep them live and healthy, have a nice breeding colony in my tank, haven't had issues since.

I'm pretty sure I have dinos. At first I thought they were diatoms but they're not going away at all. I had no idea the toxins dinos produce can kill snails, I'm wondering if they can actually kill some soft coral as well.

Did you keep your skimmer on while dosing silicate and MicroBacter7? I know specifically MB7 bottle advise to turn it off when dosing. Also did you dose silica by the bottle directions or did you do more or less?

Thank you for the info! Oh, btw... is that a Kurzgesagt Deep Sea Poster on the wall?

Quick question? Do you run Cheato? If you do, did you shut if off completely or turn down the hours, since cheato will extract phosphates and nitrates that you are trying to increase? Interested since I run cheato in my system that has Dinos.

I got rid of the cyano with 1 dose of stability from seachem. At first I didn’t know how to get rid of it. Needed water changes. Lower nutrients. Suck it out and all kinds of things. I did nothing but added the stability and within a day the bigger areas died off and was fine. Second dose took out the rest. Less than a week it’s all it took

Did you run your UV or did you turn it off? I have started dosing silicates and i'm not seeing any diatoms yet, was afraid turning the UV on would inhibit diatom growth.

I planning to upgrade my tank I just want to know the thickness of your tank tanks I love your videos

You are starting to remind me of Yan. He would always say: "If Yan can cook, so can you!"

wow soo much emotional film algae outro 🤣🤣

Hey man I just left you a huge thing about Dino and it didn’t let any of it go through I’ll try again.

Hi. Thank you for this very informative video. So how long before you beat this dinos for the 2nd time? I mean how long were you dosing silica, microbacter 7 and reef nutrition phyto feast live and raising the temperature and how were you dosing, was it everyday for all the three or 1 like microbacter on a monday, phyto feast live on a tuesday..,etc? Did you still set the temperature back down after beating dinos? To what temp?

hey there. i have the Microbacter7. how much did you dose per gallon? i would like to try it?

Awesome man!! DINOFLATULENCE GONE LOL

how much silicates did you dose?

How much silica did you add and how often?

Congratulations on the successful cycle. Do you ever check your clam for those asterina star fish? I had them completely over run the base of my clam. Great collection of fish😉👌

What stand are you using?

But how did you get the dyno?

Yes .. yes.. yes... yes.. easy tiger!

Inappropriate Reefer . Do you do water change ? Thanks

Omg dude this stuff is horrible!!! Dinos SUCKKK! Big time we r battling dino in my good friends 375g mixed reef with over 600 gallon total water volume lol its a nightmare...thanks so much for your video we r going to try some of this advice love ur vids been a sub of ur channel for almost 2 years now...much respect from us here in halifax nova scotia

Mastertronic for me as well.

The mistake i made with my system i can only blame myself for. I tried to culture Bioluminescent Dinos,(Pyrocystis sp.). For the most part i was successful and cultured them up to a 5 gal tank. I idea was to introduce them to my reef system in hopes that they would live and display at night when the lights went out. Well they survived one night then i never saw them display again. However, I did get an issue with the dino outbreak. and yes, my no3 and po4 bottomed out SO, i do not know if the bloom was them OR preexisting dinos. I bought the $20 microscope but, that did not work to well. Then i bough a more expensive one that has an LCD display vs the eyepiece and i'm still on the fence about that one and i'm having trouble with the focus. I removed all the frags i had to a QT system as they are stressed right out and probably will not make it. This specie of dino is not killing my snails, goes into the water column at night and when i catch them in a 10 micron filter sock, the smell they give off sure smells super bad. In fact, i made the mistake of giving it a close smell at the sock opening and found myself sneezing uncontrollably for about 5 minutes. One thing i tried was Dino x and used as directed it made them go away for a short time then they came back,(epic fail). It DID however, kill off ALL pods and the soft tube little feathers worms...COMPLETELY. Since, i did x7 30 gal water changes over the following week as it is a 500 gal system and used AC as well to get that help get that Dino X out of my system. Right after, it was lights out for 10 days as i read that after 10 days the dinos basically self destruct. The system is BB so, no worries there. Have a 70 gal sump with Chaeto in it that i had removed because i also tried Vibrant which was also only a temp fix. Now Chaeto is back in and i just turned on the lights just for it. During this blackout, i was feeding the system Live Phyto AND introduced Amphipods as well as copepods from different venders like Algebarn and RUSALTY. Amphipods are doing well and i have yet to check on the copepods BUT, shout out to Algebarn and RUSALTY, they are pretty serious about the life they sell and customer support is great. I also, bought the before and after tests form Aquabiomics. They well analyze your water samples to see what type of microbes and other critters are in your system and give recommendations based off that. As i can see in the main system. ATM, there is NO trace of the dinos. Not even the smell they gave off. Po4 is .0766 ppm down from .137 the day before, and No3 is 5ppm. I use a Hanna UL Phosphorus checker,(i don't mind the math). To make sure it was calibrated i used the solution sold for that and up to date reagents. I have to say, the statement that they are in every system i dunno if is true. I've been reef keeping for decades and until now, i've NEVER once, had an issue with dinos. Not even when i began the hobby and used uncured LR right off the plane. First time for everything. Thanks Inappropriate Reefer, your you tube contributions and very helpful.

Hey what's up man Love the videos remind me your name again?? Anyways I had a question I'm currently battling the dinos as well and I just received the sponge excel my aquarium with sump is roughly 30 gallons ,how many drops per day would you recommend to cause a diatom bloom thanks again any information would be helpful

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I left previous comment before I watched through. PLease help me! I am really confused now. What was on the glass was a diatom bloom from dosing silicates? All I have is that on my glass and wave maker now. I never id the type but it has evolved from snotty on the sand and covered the rocks and walls. It did seem to go away at night and come back n ot sure. I do know that I was dosing mb7 and vibrant and stirring up the sand bed and blowing off rock and coral. I was dosing each one one alternating nights and added the 2 uv sterilizers. Could it just be a bacterial/diatom bloom now that I am experiencing and its gone especially since my sand is so white? ITs been white for a while now so should I add any of those other things like silicates or phyto. When do you know that its time to quit and their gone? Is that when you only see it on glass because that is all I am experiencing and dusty rocks. I dont know whether to just stop and do a water change and clean it off yet because I dont want a set back! I did a water change about 3 weeks ago and scraped the glass but for last 3 weeks I think the sand and rocks have been clear so I think its time to stop dosing and see what happens but petrified that since I dint add silicates and phyto that I am not ready and it will come back! What would you do if you were me? Please help! Thank God I found this video! This is the best dino video ever! I had no idea that it was probably gone and was fixing to try another method or Id it and go from there!

Hey man question. I was at petco recently and spotted something that looked kind of like white slugs coming out of their zoas. I know its not red bugs parasites because these were very distinct in appearance and about a fingernail size. I am really curious as to what kind of parasite it was . Note* I am brand new to reefing and have zero experience in identifying such things.

That tank has such an amazing foot print for a sps dominant tank. I think it's time you step away from the beginner corals and move on to sps and higher end lps.

I gave myself dinos in my basement tank from a frag and it took over. Got rid in 2 weeks from switching to only Rods frozen and using a double dose of AlgaeBarn OceanMagik

I’m having a problem with my frogspawn it won’t come out... 😞😞 what would you suggest

Awesome beating those horrible things. I am a fellow DMV area reefer currently building a 100 Gallon Innovative Marine tank. You should come take a look at my setup and give me your opinions! Enjoy the snow!

How much spongeexcel did you dose. I’m dosing my 25 gallon but I can’t tell if I am enough.

I lost big time against dino so bad that I took my tank down yesterday and put what few corals i have left in a quarantine 10 gallon tank while i start up a new tank much smaller then my nuvo 40 gallon cube

I got my dream clownfish yesterday, a Wyoming white Happiest I’ve been and even better he paired with my big clown happily

What do I do to raise my nitrates and phosphates?

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Its your conk snails that did that I had the same problem. I put 4 of them in there and all the dino is gone now

I’ll make this short hand because I think my message was too long. I have the same Dino as you after discovering all these ridiculous ways to beat it I went my own way. I dosed vibrant I dosed microbactor7 and phytoplankton from algae barn. Those are the three ingredients doses directed increase vibrant in magic ocean phytoplankton as you go on just a little it fully beat out the Dino harms nothing in your tank and it worked amazing.

Maybe I missed an episode that explained this, but why is the glass so dirty? Do you not clean it regularly?

Did Billy pipes pass away?

I wonder why your coralline algea was growing good when tank was new/clean and stopped all of a sudden now....with the higher bio load I’ve always been told if you have coralline your ready for sps and if your coralline is stopping are you sure your on the right path? Can your tank keep sps alive now? 🤔 Try a Walt Disney in there and lets see how it does! 🤗

You should come to house of tropicals I work there I would love to meet you

Hello! I'm a sophomore for Redondo Union High School looking for an interview on dinoflagellates; Is there a possibility I can get an interview? THANKS! ~ Gordon Berridge RUHS 2023

I’m battling dinos in my 15 g I’m screwed. Idk what to do … maybe dr Tim’s waste away ?

If I am incorrect, would like to see your sources for the research. Thanks

Can I still feed my corals with reef roids and polyp booster during treating Dinos?

I love the size and dimensions of that tank, what is it?

whats the dr tims equivalent of microbactr or fritz turbo

ok pause the video at 2:45 and close your eyes and tell me what did u experience dont stop til 3:10

When are you going to organize the tank the corals seem to be placed wherever they fall your other tank was a lot more organized and Corals were placed in certain places to complement the other corals next to them this tank seems like well I’m just gonna say it a mess

Got news, your dinos are still there. What we end up doing with our tanks is get to a point of biological balance. There is all sorts of organisms in your tank, dinos, cyano, various algaes, bacteria, Ich etc. all I can guarantee you are there. But you have reached that point of balance. Great job. Always a fun view. Your tanks and videos are always great, entertaining though not always very accurate. You are rationalizing things out and coming up with theories snd developing opinions that are likely not biologically accurate.

If low nitrates and phosphates is the cause of the problem why didn't you dose Seachem Nitrate and Phosphate instead of dosing so many other stuff?

I had a yellow tang that ate cyano, maybe yours is taking care od business!

How much do I dose Sponge Excell? Great videos.

microbacter7 is what killed my phos and nitrates. so that will cause more of it.

So as I was saying I beat out the Dino my diamond Kobe was the key. He ate the Dino every single day no matter how bad it was but I had to force him to do it by giving him dry food pellet food that sunk to the bottom after I do that he would go around and search all the sanding eat every drop of the Dino I did it every day for weeks. While I was dozing the other medications after about seven weeks everything is back to normal. I wish I could say more but this thing keeps cutting me off. If you want more info hit me back up. Thank you my RU-vid page coral fish frenzy

How dare you assume that I don’t love seeing that face sitting in that chair doing water tests

I literally just follow for the thumbnails

Why are you getting rid of the file fish?!?!

Bye bye Dinos!!