Advice? I’ve been battling what I’ve assumed to be dinoflagellates up until this point for a few weeks. I’ve had them once before but those looked and acted different than what I have now. And those easier to deal with. I just assumed this was a different strand. I should have taken a picture but I’ll add one tonight. I’m starting to think I have something else. They are brown, stringy and clumpy and long/wavy in the waves. But the weird part is that they don’t really have many bubbles and they are ONLY on my rocks. They won’t touch the substrate. I’ve done a 3 day total blackout three times. They look gone or near gone then in about two days come right back. They multiply very fast. They are soft and scrub right off the rocks. Thoughts?
Does anyone know if turning down white light, and turning up blue light reduces Dino’s?
I’ve not heard of that working. I did have success beating Dino’s by adding a ton of copepods to my system and dosing phyto daily to keep them reproducing
Advice? I’ve been battling what I’ve assumed to be dinoflagellates up until this point for a few weeks. I’ve had them once before but those looked and acted different than what I have now. And those easier to deal with. I just assumed this was a different strand. I should have taken a picture but I’ll add one tonight. I’m starting to think I have something else. They are brown, stringy and clumpy and long/wavy in the waves. But the weird part is that they don’t really have many bubbles and they are ONLY on my rocks. They won’t touch the substrate. I’ve done a 3 day total blackout three times. They look gone or near gone then in about two days come right back. They multiply very fast. They are soft and scrub right off the rocks. Thoughts?
If these fail that's when I resort to blackout. 3 day black out is almost never enough to kill or even dent most types of Dino. 1 strain I know lasts longer then 9 days. In extreme cases I have removed corals to a qt tank. Blacked out the display for at l...