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Hey collective, I am battling a Dino outbreak in my Fluval 13.5. The solution is a UV Sterilizer of at least 12w. I'll be honest and say I can't afford one at the moment and wanted to see if anyone has one they would let me borrow for a couple weeks. I know I'm stretching here but I figured I'd ask. Thanks 😁 🤞
 

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what are your tank water parameters including nitrates and phosphates?
 

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Did your nutritients bottom out recently?
I'm no expert on dinos but in a small tank like yours, could you try adding more biodiversity (e.g. pods) and silicates (to encourage diatoms)?
 
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Did your nutritients bottom out recently?
I'm no expert on dinos but in a small tank like yours, could you try adding more biodiversity (e.g. pods) and silicates (to encourage diatoms)?
Yup bottomed out phosphates. I am doing both of those. I'd be happy ro wait it out but ostreopsis is highly.toxic and I do t want to lose coral or fish on the tank. Thank you for the recommendations!
 

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I wound up using vibrant after a desperate battle. After the vibrant I got cyano and ran chemiclean. That was it, I kept a closer eye on my parameters and was able to avoid further outbreaks. Dinos suck.
 

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Did your nutritients bottom out recently?
I'm no expert on dinos but in a small tank like yours, could you try adding more biodiversity (e.g. pods) and silicates (to encourage diatoms)?
I'm curious about the idea that a quick drop in nutrients caused dinos. I haven't heard this theory before. However, I had a hair brained idea years ago that has worked for a few friends around town that coincides with your idea to introduce things to encourage diatoms. Cyano seems to out-compete it pretty well for real estate so I just got cyano from someone in town and threw it in. It wasn't any exact science, but seemed to work, then cyano is much easier to rid your tank of.
 

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I'm curious about the idea that a quick drop in nutrients caused dinos. I haven't heard this theory before. However, I had a hair brained idea years ago that has worked for a few friends around town that coincides with your idea to introduce things to encourage diatoms. Cyano seems to out-compete it pretty well for real estate so I just got cyano from someone in town and threw it in. It wasn't any exact science, but seemed to work, then cyano is much easier to rid your tank of.
It's pretty well accepted that bottoming out nitrate and phosphate can lead to a dino outbreak. Certainly not going to happen in every tank with essentially zero N/P, and obviously can happen for other reasons, but without enough nutrients, other things that usually outcompete dinos can starve and leave the door wide open...
 
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What happened for me, I think.
I had a pretty mild case of cyano and treated with Chemi-clean. Should have looked at my Nirates and Phosphates closer. 0 phosphates and the treatment with chemi-clean left the door open. Cyano disappeared and dinos appeared almost simultaneous. Big error on my part.
 

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Hey !?!??! New season, Twitter bot gone, What's up Jared!! Yes agree all good points... stop adding chemicals. Its only 13 gallons. 100% water change it is cheaper, quicker... then do what Jared said. Get Natural. Get pods and phyto and let it eat.. I think you're battling new tank syndrome and the corals you're adding are giving you a tiny bacterial/ microfauna diversity but you got to feed it correctly if you want them to stay alive.
 
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Not gonna lie, Dino’s are very difficult to get rid of. They capitalize on an mistake you make. They’ll love you if you try to do a water change. I think it may be the iron in the saltmix coupled with the destabilizing event of the WC itself. They love organics.
 
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