I recently had dinos and hair algae super bad, a reefing mentor of mine baffled me with his method that actually worked for me. (U.K. fauna Marin rep) Theory was that the bacteria in the system, that which colonises surface areas was starved and therefore cannot proliferate and therefore cannot protect surfaces from algae’s and cannot compete against opportunistic organisms such as dinos. The suggestion was simply to feed more and to use fauna marins rebiotic product in order to feed and strengthen the bacteria in order to restore balance to the system and get rid of the nuisance algae’s and dinos. Within a week of feeding a lot more along with 2 small doses of what I had left od rebiotic the dinos fully disappeared and when the urchins/turbos cleaned the rocks the hair algae has not bounced back. Some knowledge is very backwards in this hobby
3 days lights out cover tank so no light gets the the dinos. After 3 days, start turning lights back on a couple hours a day slowly ramping back up to normal schedule over the course of a week. Worked great for me in the past.
Sorry to hear about the new challenge. That's the nature of reef tanks... From a SPS perspective things look fantastic on health, grow and colors. Summer is ending so it opens up more time to focus on the attention seeking tank. All the best. Keep us posted.
LCA is a sucky battle. Sounds like you’re doing the right stuff. I’d skip the bacteria, go overboard on pods, dose live phyto (1ml/gallon/day). I get mine from Canada Aqua Marine, CAM pods + tetraselmis. A big tank like that and I’d use eight bottles of pods? A bottle is 17 bucks. My LCA came after dosing chaetogro. It seems they like extra metals. I used SpongeExcel for silicates.
@@TheBioReef after 6 weeks of essentially no progress, I was ready to quit. So before I did I figured a hail mary of 4 bottles of pods in a 20g nano might do it. It did. Specifically the CAM pods as they’re a mix, the tetraselmis makes them reproduce like crazy. Almost instantly diatoms began to replace the dinos (I never stopped dosing silicates). Then the pods ate the diatoms. Tank hasn’t flinched in 18 months, including last year’s 4 day power outage in Ottawa.
@@TheBioReef excellent phyto talk around minute 31 for sustaining a good population of benthic critters ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N-9SEhW2oYs.htmlsi=vowEmnO81Z6HQQWa Tetraselmis discussion @39 minutes Dinos @52
You could try adding carbon to the tank. I tried NP-Out for 4 month and dinos dissappeared but mine were amphidinium type so they go to water column at night. The idea is to feed the nitrificant bacter at night so they grow all around the tank and dont leave space for dinoflagellates. I used UV ligt and added microfaunta too. Good video i love ur channel :)
Just changed over tanks from 370 lte to 550 lte same rock halve the water plus , added Caribbean new live sand and 😊 bingo cyano🤦♂️😢, trying micro bacter7 to add good bacteria 🤷🏻♂️. Then maybe vibrant ,last resort red slime remover 🙏
Temp, iron works well to. Suck that crap out and run some carbon. 1ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons. Silica is a good plan I think tho. I’ve beat it a few times. I noticed mb7 to reduce my nutrients so I stopped dosing that.
I have a similar issue not sure what it is though as don’t have a good microscope. I’ve noticed though that if I leave it for a bit to form kind of like a thick layer on top of the sand and then rather than vacuuming the sand syphoning the top layer trying not to remove loads of sand (some will get sucked up). Then I have been dosing a small amount of phosphate the day after, dosing microbacter 7 and I’m also now after getting it almost under control adding phyto, Rotifers and loads of copepods to hopefully compete and create a better algae balance🤞. May be worth a try rather than vacuuming the sand but as I say I don’t know exactly what it is in my tank so could be dinos or diatoms and I’ve only been reefing for 4 years so don’t have tons of experience. I Just think compared to older setups with live rock rather than dry rock means modern dry rock tanks miss out on the kind of micro algae balance so as time goes on we’re slowly learning new ways to add and grow micro algae balance in modern tanks. Anyway the corals are looking great and hopefully you will be doing another sps growth video soon🤞.
I noticed you got coraline on the front glass which would of taken a while to grow but you have no algae dusting on the glass. To me thats a classic sign your nutrients are starting to bottom out. I would up the feed and add copepods.
@@TheBioReef I found putting my skimmer on a timer worked for me. The nutrients went up very slowly. That way you can peg the nutrients that works best
Have you tried dosing iron? Chris from ACI aquaculture said it could work. He said that you should raise it to sea water level, which is around 0.001 - 0.003 ppm but there's no harm of overdosing it a bit from my experience.
Yep I have a leopard wrasse and two tamarin wrasses; both need sand. I had some luck putting a little plastic container with sand for them to sleep in the Qt. DT has a lot of sand
bro, i can be prety sure that this time dino are tootally different to last dino outbrake! last time you have stringy with air bubbles types of dino that mostly killed sps especturally acros,its PARTUALLY free floating at the night time and sensetive to UV. but this time, its matt looking on the sand bed, this types of dino wont affect sps much but just covering lower rock work and sand bed, also its not sensetive to UV.
