I think I'm in dinoflagellates hell !!! Need advice please

[Paul28]

I found a link to the water I use.

http://www.watermillexpress.com/

there water is trash ive yoused the one off Pat Booker in front of Pollys pets 200+tds

[nikkinchip]

Crap..this is the location I get from.
But having said that, I've honestly never have had a water quality issue and my live stock has always been happy and flourishing.

[Paul28]

the ones at HEB out front are even worse dont think these people everchange filters you might as well get the water out of your toilet

[Zack]

Depends on the HEB you get them from, I used to take TDS reads from the local stores and I was getting about 10 TDS from HEB, 4 TDS from Walmart, and about 40 TDS from a local petstore.. my tap water was reading around 185.

[Paul28]

Depends on the HEB you get them from, I used to take TDS reads from the local stores and I was getting about 10 TDS from HEB, 4 TDS from Walmart, and about 40 TDS from a local petstore.. my tap water was reading around 185.

thats not bad at all

[rrasco]

I used to use the Wind Mill water on my 29 gallon, but only when my consumption was low. I never did take a reading on it, namely because I didn't have a TDS meter. Much better to be able to make water at home and store it, you won't regret that purchase.

[CoryDude]

For Dino's, I read an article written by Randy Holmes Farley. I'd suggest you check it out. I used his idea of raising the ph in the tank using a Kalkwasser slurry to keep the ph at 8.4 or 8.5. Then I manually removed as much of the snot as I could. Do not blow the stuff off of the rocks unless you want to make your problem worse. Then I would leave the entire tank dark for 2-3 days at a time. Then I would run the lights for about 4 hours a day for 3 days and then repeat the process. It took forever but I finally got rid of them after a month.

[Paul28]

use cable ties to a toothbrush to your siphon hose when you do waterchanges have fun slowly scrubbing so it dosent spread

[clayton]

I use R/O water from the Polly's in Universal City, seemed to help with my algae issues a lot,might try going there,only cost me about 5 bucks to fill up my 7 gallon container.(btw they also have an app with different exclusive coupons which includes a free 5 gallons of R/O water, might wanna check into it)

[Sherita]

The h2o2 worked very well for me. The first couple days you won't see any difference. Then one morning you will get up and go, hmmm, looks a little better the next day you will go WOW! Treat for 7-10 days. Dino's will be vanquished.