by the end of the day your tank will be a mess of strings,slime and bubbles again ...prob by midday

See it's frustrating trying to get a diagnosis of this stuff :biggrin: I need to find someone with a microscope.
My tank looks awesome first thing in the morning, but by about 6 hours into the lighting period it starts looking like crap again.

bring it in for testing then youll know for sure(a university should be able to put it under microscope for you) , dinos die in the cold though so they need to be transporeted quickly to the testing site.

imo cyano is easy as hell to get rid of , dinos can go for months and months with different attempts to remove.

cyano dissappears for a while here and there , dinos is in it for the long haul.


theres reports on rc of people using chemiclean and ending up with dinos , one story is very similiar to yours.

funny enough though its harder to keep dinos alive then it is to kill them , if you remove some and put it in another tank chances of survival is slim......irony maybe??

Dinoflagellates are kind of easy to get rid of by rising the PH. I did it and it never returned.

I used Seachem OH to rise the PH to 8.4 and keep it at that for a week. Now cyano is a pain...

My ph right now is 8.4 but lights are just about to go out. I'll check again in the morning right before lights on. I'm using a bit of an older API test kit though so not sure how accurate that is.

Ph this morning was roughly the same, like I said probably a crappy test kit.

Dosed another round of chemiclean this morning, gonna keep the lights off for a couple of days, might cover the tank and go the complete blackout route too. So we'll see what happens.

if your going to cover the tank then you need to do complete blackout a little bit of light getting through will do you no good.

good luck man im sure you get it knocked down:)

cheers

I'm gonna get garbage bags later and cover the tank up.

Since I lack an air stone I cranked up the skimmer to overflow.
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