Get rid of Hair Algae and other Nuisance Algae

[Myka]

In the life Kingdoms, dinoflagellates don't fall into any of the four typical Kingdoms (animal, plant, fungi, bacteria), they are of a weird Kingdom called Protist. This group isn't well defined, and I would have a tough time describing. There are many different types of dinos from parasitic to symbiotic. In fact, zooxanthallae are a type of dino. Most of the time in our reefs the nuisance dinos we get feed off nutrients and light and most of them release toxins as they reproduce to impede or kill corals and invertebrates.

Essentially, dinos are treated like hair algae, diatoms, and cyano primarily (but not solely) by nutrient reduction. Elevating pH is another stab to take at it, but can be risky and often ends up with dinos coming back when the pH is again lowered if the nutrient issue hasn't been resolved.

Originally Posted by daniella3d

I know it's a dinoflagellates but it should be in the same topic as algae as it is a common problem with similar effects as algae and often confused for algae. I mean there should be some inclusion in a sticy threat for dino and cyano as well, otherwise if the person's problem is not an algae, he or she will be on a dead end with this thread.

I already explained that the thread was originally just "How to get rid of Hair Algae", but many people would ask "What about X?" So I would add a tid bit here and there. I also already explained that I will include more details about dinos and cyano if you would like (even though the treatment is essentially the same as hair algae). So I'm not sure what you're arguing here...?? Have some patience I will add more in the next while.

[daniella3d]

Raising the PH with mecanical filtration with one micro cartridge was all I did to get rid of mine 100% and it never came back.

No nutriment reduction was done since I had a few non-photosynthetic gorgonian in my tank that required regular feeding.

I don,t think that reducing the nutriment (dissolved organic or nitrates, phosphates) is enough to get rid of dinoflagellates alone.

Why is elevating the PH to 8.4 or 8.5 be risky? It's only a few degree off the regular PH which is 8.3?

Originally Posted by Myka

In the life Kingdoms, dinoflagellates don't fall into any of the four typical Kingdoms (animal, plant, fungi, bacteria), they are of a weird Kingdom called Protist. This group isn't well defined, and I would have a tough time describing. There are many different types of dinos from parasitic to symbiotic. In fact, zooxanthallae are a type of dino. Most of the time in our reefs the nuisance dinos we get feed off nutrients and light and most of them release toxins as they reproduce to impede or kill corals and invertebrates.

Essentially, dinos are treated like hair algae, diatoms, and cyano primarily (but not solely) by nutrient reduction. Elevating pH is another stab to take at it, but can be risky and often ends up with dinos coming back when the pH is again lowered if the nutrient issue hasn't been resolved.



I already explained that the thread was originally just "How to get rid of Hair Algae", but many people would ask "What about X?" So I would add a tid bit here and there. I also already explained that I will include more details about dinos and cyano if you would like (even though the treatment is essentially the same as hair algae). So I'm not sure what you're arguing here...?? Have some patience I will add more in the next while.

[Myka]

I added dinos Daniella, not much more info than we already discussed in our many posts here though. We covered a lot of it!