Curses.......Dino and cyano outbreaks in separate tanks.

[Jschier]

So after returning from a week vacation (tanks were maintained by LFS guy), one of my 16g has an outbreak of cyano and the other has serious dinoflagellates. I hit the google and plan to attack the dino by sand siphon, new chem-pure elite, remove CuC and 48 hr blackout. Ill get some red slime remover for the cyano. Assuming LFS guy just really enjoyed feeding my fishies. Any successful tips?

 

[Chrisbraz]

I've got a newb question lol why would you take your CUC out? Forgive the ignorance lol still learning

 

[Jschier]

No worries, dinoflagellates are toxic to them, according to the google.

 

[Chrisbraz]

Good to know! Thanks...hope everything works out for you!

 

[Jschier]

So after a couple of days of blackout, adding matrix and siphoning I've turned the lights on ( my corals really need it) and ill observe the return of dino and see what else I can do.

 

[Jschier]

Nope.....back in force and now noticeable on my live stock.........could really use some ideas.

 

[Cichlid-dude]

I had/have a terrible outbreak of dinos. Its been like 6 months and its starting to go away. I did a 5 day blackout, i dont have corals so that wasnt a problem. After the 5 days i turned the lights off and it was gone. Only kept the lights on for 4 hours a day for a few weeks then slowly started leaving them on longer. As soon as i hit an 8 hour light schedule the dinos came back but not nearly as bad. So thats where i am now, its not as bad as it was but its still there and driving me nuts! I lost almost all my snails from this stuff. Good luck with your battle!

 

[Jschier]

So I've got only 4 days until I leave for a week again. I've removed all my coral and cuc so it's basically a FOWLR tank. Siphon and big water change tonight and another 2 day blackout. Wish me luck.

 

[Animal-Chin]

My syphon/waterchange/black out/raise ph attack seemed to have worked, how is yours doing?