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Brown algae on sandbed
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I don't have a microscope but your 3rd picture (purple) looks very similar to what I am fighting as we speak. From that picture, unfortunately, I think it is dinoflagellates. The population in my tank kept growing over the last 6 months or so and it even started to cover the corals. First I thought it was cyanobacteria and tried Chemiclean which did nothing (as it was not cayano).
After trying several methods, I am now trying DINO X by Fauna Marin. This stuff works! I am not 100% sure of all the side effects yet but all of Dino in my tank has disappeared after the 4th treatment. In fact, I had forgotten to take out carbon from my tank for the first 2 treatments. I am on the 6th treatment now and plan to do 10 treatments as suggested by Fauna Marin.
All fish and corals seems to be doing okay. Some corals like Duncan is not opening up over the last couple of days. Fauna Marin claims that corals will be fine after you do a major water change at the end of the treatment. My alkalinity consumption and calcium consumption has steadily dropped which probably means that the corals are not growing and waiting for a change in the environment. I have Trident and it has become very easy to monitor the CA/Alk consumption on daily basis now. Most of the corals don't show any signs of stress and I am hoping that those that are will come back after the treatment and after I do significant water change over a few days. I am very happy with this product as I would have never been able to get rid of dyno especially that was all over the corals. Changing sand might have reduced the population but I wouldn't have been able to get rid of it on the rocks, other gaps and crevices and especially on the corals. The sand looks nice and white now and I could clearly see the areas on the corals that dyno had taken over.
DINO X is available on BRS. . .
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/fauna-marin-ultra-algea-x.html
You can read the reviews and decide. There is more info available on https://www.faunamarin.de/en/dino-x-remove-any-hairy-or-plague-type-algae/a-200040/
Good luck!
After trying several methods, I am now trying DINO X by Fauna Marin. This stuff works! I am not 100% sure of all the side effects yet but all of Dino in my tank has disappeared after the 4th treatment. In fact, I had forgotten to take out carbon from my tank for the first 2 treatments. I am on the 6th treatment now and plan to do 10 treatments as suggested by Fauna Marin.
All fish and corals seems to be doing okay. Some corals like Duncan is not opening up over the last couple of days. Fauna Marin claims that corals will be fine after you do a major water change at the end of the treatment. My alkalinity consumption and calcium consumption has steadily dropped which probably means that the corals are not growing and waiting for a change in the environment. I have Trident and it has become very easy to monitor the CA/Alk consumption on daily basis now. Most of the corals don't show any signs of stress and I am hoping that those that are will come back after the treatment and after I do significant water change over a few days. I am very happy with this product as I would have never been able to get rid of dyno especially that was all over the corals. Changing sand might have reduced the population but I wouldn't have been able to get rid of it on the rocks, other gaps and crevices and especially on the corals. The sand looks nice and white now and I could clearly see the areas on the corals that dyno had taken over.
DINO X is available on BRS. . .
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/fauna-marin-ultra-algea-x.html
You can read the reviews and decide. There is more info available on https://www.faunamarin.de/en/dino-x-remove-any-hairy-or-plague-type-algae/a-200040/
Good luck!
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I use it previously and worked well. This time though i have a lot more high end corals and very nervous to do it again knowing there are some bad cases out there from dinox.
May I ask what was your own experience the first time around? If you lost any corals. . .
My feeling is that people may not have monitored their alkalinity and calcium as closely and continued to dose the same amount everyday which probably resulted into very high alkalinity quickly and which might have been the cause for the coral damage more than DINO X. I would have made the same mistake if I had to manually check the Alk and Ca everyday. I noticed that Alk consumption dropped significantly since I started the treatment. Trident has been very handy and I have been able to control the parameters. So far, all of my corals including SPSs looking good except for Duncan (which once in a while does go in that mode anyways). Honestly, I am not sure how else I would have gotten rid of this stuff. . . it was quickly spreading everywhere. . .
Since I removed my bed sand I never Had a problem yes tank looks different bare bottom but don't have the issues
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They are dark rusty brown. Pic was taken under blue light with orange len.
Joker
Viking Corals
Then its most likely dino. So many people are getting it this month. You can start dosing peroxide to battle it. Just make sure to do lots of research on it before hand. I used this method to battle dino way back when and it worked for me as well. Others have risen their nitrate phosphate level, done black outside and those helped but I dont know how effective it was.
