This is exactly what is happening to me now.😂 I’m ordering a uv tonight

Excellent, thanks so much. Have had Dino's for about 3 months now. Just installed UV today,

One of the best explications I’ve seen on Dino’s thanks for the info hope it works !

Enjoyed the video. Nice work as usual bro. I’m a fan of UV sterilizers. I only run them periodically when I need them though.

Great information!!!

Very informative

Great vid :)

You have formulated a good plan to fight the dinos. You’re right, it’s a battle and a lot of people don’t realize that dinos are present in our systems. It’s just about keeping a good nutrient balance within our tanks.

sounds like a good plan.

Thanks for making this video, you are very good at it and I just subscribed. Do you ever think about if the reward of having a reef tank is worth the frustration? I change my mind on a weekly basis.

I have the mean green killing machine on my 90 gallon cube reef tank. I absolutely love it it’s not but $100 and I have had absolutely no problems with the tank at all since putting one in. Do you have any experience with the mean green killing machine? If so do you like it?

UV has worked for me in the past to beat Dinos. I usually do a 48 hour blackout and run UV at the same time and the problem subsides. However the Dinos I'm dealing with now which are basically a rust color film that accumulates on the sand bed the UV sterilizer hasn't worked at all. I've tried manual removal, upping my nutrients, lowering my light schedule and nothing seems to work.

For me a uv sterilizer and raise temperature did the job.

I have a 75 and a 150 tank both got the same Dino’s at the same time,. Put identical UV on them, they’re gone from the 150. They’re just as bad as ever on the 75. The main difference between the two tanks is the 75 uses a 50 gallon refugium filled with cheato as the main nutrient export, the 150 uses a protein skimmer and a much smaller 20 gallon refugium with cheato. My plan is to add a protein skimmer to the 75, and start vodka dosing. Might even try some Brightwell macrobacter clean as well. The 75 has had Dino’s for over two years.

What size micon sock did you use?

Wanted to get your thoughts on this - battling amphidinium dino's for months. Seemed like it was getting much better after I pulled my UV Sterilizer offline. I saw some good algae growth that started to outcompete the dino's. I put the UV Sterilizer back online in hopes of killing them off for good and they have overtaken the tank again. My theory is that the UV Sterilizer is killing the good algae along with the bad. Just curious what your thoughts are?

Have you tried the green killing machine. If so what were your results?

How did you get on in the end? Did you find out what species it was and did you keep them away long term?

Hey When I started carbon dosing vodka in my tank all my dinos on my rock started dying within 2 days. Web like stuff was oozing off my rocks. Which indicated that matter was dying on my rocks. And since I started carbon dosing coralline algae has sky rocketed! Coralline algae is a competitive algae. So whenever my purple coralline algae had grown no other algae has been able to grow

Throwing the kitchen sink at the Dino’s. I hope it works for you, I have two reef tanks a 75 and a 150, they both got Dino’s, at about the same time, I put identical UV on them. The 150 no longer has Dino’s, and the 75 has them just as bad as ever. The only difference is the 75 has a large refugium with

My dinos disappeared within a week of removing Chemipure Blue from the back chamber of my AIO tank. It was an immediate improvement. Recommend ditching chemical media except for carbon if you have any.

Could i have made dinos worse by adding some dead sand? Seems to have gotten worse. I pull out so much sand vacuuming sand bed. I had it in one tank and not the other but now after adding the sand not only did one tank get worse but seems to be growing in other tank. Why would it only be only glass? i do or did have some of whatever it is on my rocks and sand bed but that has gotten way better but glass looks weblike now and has bubbles attached to it and the only rock with bubble is leaning up against tank wall so Ithink it spread it there. Chemiclean does nothing so I assume its dinos and came on after dosing nopox and phospates bottomed out. Why is the wattage so low on that brand of uv sterilizer? I have a 10 watt one that was made for a small 20 gallon aio from innovative marine so I placed it in sump of my 36 gallon and dosnt appear to be doing a thing. I cant tell if it is even on. It has a small pump on the bottom pushing it through though and I can hear it running so I suppose it is working. I am thinking of buying a cheap jaebo because it only 100 bucks and I cant afford to spend 300 plus dollors. It dosnt tell you that you need a pump so do you think that means it comes with it? I also have rock like cement and not porous at all. Its a lot of the pretty bridges and tonga rock. I thought I had more bioball sin the sump then I do. I am soaking some more balls in mb7 but kind of scared to add them. I also put in some frag holders that were not alive with bacteria. The big ones that hold 5 frags apiece. It actually holds the frag plugs to make a zoa garden. Was that a bad idea? I added 3. Should I have soaked inb mb first? Do you know the ratio and how to do that? I also have been adding mb7 and vibrant. I skip 2 night and so on about every third night I dose one of them. I a so glad you said its safe to dose daily! I iwll start doing that! Is it ok to dose more than directions say? The directions arent for dino removal. What if I double the dose? Is it ok to use only blue light for corals? Sorry so many questions! Great video! I have a lot of new corals or I would do a 3 day blackout! lastly ,how did this plan work for yoy. It is pretty much the plan I had as well and it did seem to work once but I idint even have the sterilizer. The only difference is my nirates and phospates arent low anymore. Not sure why it came back. I might have been running lights to high and long!

Curious if you’ve since discovered the 7 day Dino treatment plan by Elegance Corals? Worked like a charm for me...and I don’t have a UV. Cheers

I hate dino the most. Hair algae is super easy to fight. In fact, I grow hair algae in my algae scrubber!

You just gotta outcomete the Dino something that outcompetes dinos is Green hair algae , you know what eats green hair algae tangs ... bamn problem solved lol

Wait so you have Chinese lights but bought a par meter? lol

The first and only step with dinos is to get a sample under a microscope..... installing a UV is effective against certain strains of dinos those which go into the water column at night osperosis and coolia, other types go into the sand bed / rock work and UV is pretty much useless against them. This is why ID is crucial before trying to deal with them. If the ID comes back positive for ostreopsis or coolia then the UV should be installed set up in your main display min 1watt per 3 gallons of tank volume at a low pathogen flow rate so you get maximum water contact time with the UV... Anyone interested in learning more about dinos and needs help we run a group on Facebook called macks reef.. we’re currently doing a bit of a study with users and asking them to complete ICP tests so we can see if there is a link between trace elements and dinos staying dominant in systems.... before anyone states the obvious yes it’s generally 0 no3 and 0 po4 that allows them to become dominant initially in our systems and yes it’s all about increasing micro biology and dosing silicates with some strands to outcompete them