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Algae help please!!


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I’m battling what I believe to be Dino’s and other assorted algae......I don’t understand why. My tests I just did is, Ph 8.31, PO4 0.04, and NO3 10. 

Here is some background, my tank is 6 months old, I combined 2 biocubes when I set this 110 up. I have a sump with chaeto (that died at the start of this outbreak), I dose Alk, Ca, acropower, and Nopox. I have a BRS reactor that I run a combo of gfo and carbon. I use all rodi water, and my lights are the AI Hydra 26, and the Aquatic Life T5 Hybrid. My LED’s schedule is 8am to 11pm with a 5 hour peak. The T5 only runs for 2 hours right now, as I was acclimating the tank to the lights. 

At the start of this outbreak, my NO3 was zero.....so I turned off the Nopox, Acropower, and gfo.....I was told ultra low nutrients was the cause. 

Anybody that has battled Dino’s and won, tell me how you did it.....I’m getting very frustrated. Thanks 

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Man I hate that for you.  This is a good read if you haven't seen it

https://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/how-i-beat-dinoflagellates-and-the-lessons-i-learned

I had them a few years ago and the ended only when Briopsis and green hair algae filled my whole system.  There are a couple interesting threads over at R2R on peroxide dosing to fight it

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