Dino!? Please help!

In just the last hour or so I have noticed what used to be my diatoms are now developing little balls and they are starting to float.

How can i get rid of this before it becomes a big problem? I had them in my QT and they always just seemed to come back within a few hours of scrubbing them off.

Feed the fish and go lights out for a few days?

 

check ur water quality whats ur parameters

 

Nitrite - 0
Ammonia - 0
Nitrate - 0
Ph - 7.9

About every 30 minutes to an hour it looks like the stuff doubles.

 

dino's are truly a nasty algae- one that I have never experienced. However, in my reading and research on them- I have seen many people tear down their tanks because of it. Many theories exist on how to rid your tank of them (increasing pH would be one of them)- some people report moderate success, while others find that nothing seems to work.

First things first however, Let's get a picture of the tank. Ive seen blue-green cyano that takes on the look of dino's quite well! Let's pray for the possibility of that!

 

Here is an excellent article on marine dinoflagellates....

Problem Dinoflagellates and pH by Randy Holmes-Farley - Reefkeeping.com

 

1. Are you using RO/DI water?

2. If so what's your TDS from the RO/DI water?
When I had them I noticed it was worse after a water change and my filters were starting to get old. Once the silicate was absorbed they would die down.

3. Are you running a phosban reactor? If not get one.

 

1. No
2. See above
3. Coming soon

As of right now i feel comfortable saying that maybe i jumped to a conclusion. Could be diatoms still but they do have little balls that moved with the current. Overall though i didnt see many with balls, just the ones on the sides of the tank. I cant get a clear enough pic of them.

 

if you have a source of micro bubbles in the tank they can and will collect on algae on the glass... happens to me every time i do a WC or turn off the return pump and restart it....

 

I had some of it as well. it travelled from the left to the right side of my 90 gal. I did nothing special and it went away on its own. I did read however you shouldnt do water changes. JMO

Also got a phosban and it didnt help. I also had RO/DI water....

This is JMO!