oblio
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After reading/following Laserjim's post and not wanting to somehow highjack his tread i am starting a new one. I keep trying to identify what I have and "think" its Dinos. I get a super deep red wispy growth on the sand bed in apparently lower flowing spots. It fades as the lights fade, Ive tried vacuuming it out and stirring it up it always comes back. Ive not blacked out the tank as its a slow grower. Once I vacuum it out, it takes days to even start to put a tint on the sandbed, from there it grows and gets deeper red. There are tiny bubbles rising from the growth (this single feature is what leads me to believe its Dinos) Please advise if I am mistaken. BTY all corals seem to be growing and doing fine, consuming about 70ml of 2 part daily added back in by dosers.
I wanted to ask the group as I am starting to lean towards Laserjims lead and try this DynoX stuff.
My readings are pretty standard,
temp 79-80
Alk 8.1
calc 440
ph 8.1/2 during the day
Phosphate always undetectable with Hanna. (this irritates me to no end)
Nitrates 8 <--used to be <1 before reactor was added, been steady for months.
Mag 1320 ish, I only check it every few months and adjust if required.
sal 1.026
Photoperiod 10am -10 pm with the kessil 360we's then only ramp up to 45% and thats only for 2 hours before heading back down.
also 2 ATI Blue plus 36" t5 supplements. new in April.
The phosphate thing, I know people are going to say "this is a false reading due to the algae, and I agree, however relatively speaking these algae patches are so small, at most I would say I have a 6" by 6" combined patch before vacuuming again. Just seems odd its that darn good at consuming phosphate. Shrug.
I feed 2 frozen cubes 2x a day, my fish are honestly friggn fat, I used to feed very sparingly and changed up about 6 months ago. The dinos seem unchanged in the feeding change. I am running a skimmer and a reactor but turned off the GFO over a month ago, i was only running it an hour a day in an attempt to not change anything drastically in the enviroment.
Any ideas out there? does it sound like dinos? I would take a picture but they always come out so dam bad its hardly worth looking at. If its dinos I will jump on the Dyno X bandwagon and give that shot, however it is pretty specific about only being designed for Dinos, hence the post.
I wanted to ask the group as I am starting to lean towards Laserjims lead and try this DynoX stuff.
My readings are pretty standard,
temp 79-80
Alk 8.1
calc 440
ph 8.1/2 during the day
Phosphate always undetectable with Hanna. (this irritates me to no end)
Nitrates 8 <--used to be <1 before reactor was added, been steady for months.
Mag 1320 ish, I only check it every few months and adjust if required.
sal 1.026
Photoperiod 10am -10 pm with the kessil 360we's then only ramp up to 45% and thats only for 2 hours before heading back down.
also 2 ATI Blue plus 36" t5 supplements. new in April.
The phosphate thing, I know people are going to say "this is a false reading due to the algae, and I agree, however relatively speaking these algae patches are so small, at most I would say I have a 6" by 6" combined patch before vacuuming again. Just seems odd its that darn good at consuming phosphate. Shrug.
I feed 2 frozen cubes 2x a day, my fish are honestly friggn fat, I used to feed very sparingly and changed up about 6 months ago. The dinos seem unchanged in the feeding change. I am running a skimmer and a reactor but turned off the GFO over a month ago, i was only running it an hour a day in an attempt to not change anything drastically in the enviroment.
Any ideas out there? does it sound like dinos? I would take a picture but they always come out so dam bad its hardly worth looking at. If its dinos I will jump on the Dyno X bandwagon and give that shot, however it is pretty specific about only being designed for Dinos, hence the post.
