dino experiment
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lewk
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The bottles I bought are 250ml, and the instructions say to dose 5ml per 100L(26 gallons) of water every 2 days. They also say that dinos are usually gone by 10 doses.
People that have used Algae X can speak more to how many doses it takes. I just ordered 2 bottles for my 135 just in case I needed more.
Good luck!
People that have used Algae X can speak more to how many doses it takes. I just ordered 2 bottles for my 135 just in case I needed more.
Good luck!
BrklynArch
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i might of missed it earlier in the thread but where are you guys ordering the Algea X from? cant see to find it on google.
I did a complete 8-day lights out period on my tank. I drained the entire tank, used a 16 oz. bottle of H2O2 on every surface, rinsed, drained and added new water. I was gone for the week and drained and replaced all of that water.
I am back to a normal light schedule. I lost one zoa frag (which was new). I can also tell that I have lost some other zoa polyps throughout the tank but even if it cost me a 1000 polyps and win I am fine with that. I have not seen any dinos pop back up yet but we will have to wait and see I suppose.
The algae x would be next.
Tank: 5.5 gallon
Rock: MMLR with southdown sand and hydralic water stop June 2010.
Issues: Summer 2012.
Good luck everyone.
I am back to a normal light schedule. I lost one zoa frag (which was new). I can also tell that I have lost some other zoa polyps throughout the tank but even if it cost me a 1000 polyps and win I am fine with that. I have not seen any dinos pop back up yet but we will have to wait and see I suppose.
The algae x would be next.
Tank: 5.5 gallon
Rock: MMLR with southdown sand and hydralic water stop June 2010.
Issues: Summer 2012.
Good luck everyone.
lewk
New member
Barrier Reef Aquariums in WA is where I ordered mine.
So after an unfortunate accident in my reef tank over a year ago, I developed dynos which took a LONG time for me to get rid of. As I dose carbon they where the last thing to get under control. This is how I did it.
1) Filter Bags. They would clog every 16 -24 hours as I manually brushed it off rocks, ect. Keep em changed. The smell of them was horrific.
2) Manual removal. Although this helped some, IMHO this was the LEAST effective of what I did. I'd siphon any off the bare bottom (I don't have sand) and brush as much as I could off live rock with a toothbrush and a stainless steel welding brush once a week.
3) Lowered feeding. I really cut back on nutrient import for a while while I tried to starve the things out.
4) Upped carbon dosing (nutrient export)
5) Tried to raise ph to 8.6 per Randy Holmes with kalkwasser past (I already dose kalk via a kalk reactor). My normal ph is 8.1. More on this later.
6) 3 day lights out cycle.
So the most effective of all the above IMHO was a combination of the filter bags and the lights out cycles. When the lights out cycles happened on day 3 I could literally see the stuff tear off the rocks into the flow and get grabbed by the bags. The stench of the bags was horrendous.. indescribably. Makes me sick just thinking of it.
Raising the ph didnt work. For a week I was dosing cups of kalk slurry. What would happen is that the ph would scoot up then fall like a rock back down to 8.1 over the next 30-45 minutes. there was no way I could keep the kalk in the water. It would immediately precipitate out. On heaters, pumps, everything. Quite frankly, it made a terrible mess. I don't suggest trying it.
What I did find was that my ph probe had drifted over time and needed to be re-calibrated. because of this (I use ph to signal me when my alk is off and to test for alk) my alk was low.. but not terribly so. I'm not sure if upping alk by .75 dkh really impacted anything.. but it might of.
In the end starving the stuff, with 3 day lights out once a month with RELIGIOUS filter sick changing did the trick. Took forever but its gone.
Like I said manual removal was probably the least effective. On a tank my size no way I could manually remove it all once a week even if I wanted to.
Good riddance.
1) Filter Bags. They would clog every 16 -24 hours as I manually brushed it off rocks, ect. Keep em changed. The smell of them was horrific.
2) Manual removal. Although this helped some, IMHO this was the LEAST effective of what I did. I'd siphon any off the bare bottom (I don't have sand) and brush as much as I could off live rock with a toothbrush and a stainless steel welding brush once a week.
3) Lowered feeding. I really cut back on nutrient import for a while while I tried to starve the things out.
4) Upped carbon dosing (nutrient export)
5) Tried to raise ph to 8.6 per Randy Holmes with kalkwasser past (I already dose kalk via a kalk reactor). My normal ph is 8.1. More on this later.
6) 3 day lights out cycle.
So the most effective of all the above IMHO was a combination of the filter bags and the lights out cycles. When the lights out cycles happened on day 3 I could literally see the stuff tear off the rocks into the flow and get grabbed by the bags. The stench of the bags was horrendous.. indescribably. Makes me sick just thinking of it.
Raising the ph didnt work. For a week I was dosing cups of kalk slurry. What would happen is that the ph would scoot up then fall like a rock back down to 8.1 over the next 30-45 minutes. there was no way I could keep the kalk in the water. It would immediately precipitate out. On heaters, pumps, everything. Quite frankly, it made a terrible mess. I don't suggest trying it.
What I did find was that my ph probe had drifted over time and needed to be re-calibrated. because of this (I use ph to signal me when my alk is off and to test for alk) my alk was low.. but not terribly so. I'm not sure if upping alk by .75 dkh really impacted anything.. but it might of.
In the end starving the stuff, with 3 day lights out once a month with RELIGIOUS filter sick changing did the trick. Took forever but its gone.
Like I said manual removal was probably the least effective. On a tank my size no way I could manually remove it all once a week even if I wanted to.
Good riddance.
BrklynArch
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Angelos Christo
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It's been a month since I stoped with the treatment of my tank with Algae-X and I can dare to say that I won the war.
I treated for a full cycle and a half (30 days).
I have also done four water changes and I have increased the white lights to 6 hours per day since I stoped the treatment and there is no sign of dino's.
I also have to say that in my desperation I called Fauna Marine in Germany, and talked to Claude who was particularly help full and supportive.
I treated for a full cycle and a half (30 days).
I have also done four water changes and I have increased the white lights to 6 hours per day since I stoped the treatment and there is no sign of dino's.
I also have to say that in my desperation I called Fauna Marine in Germany, and talked to Claude who was particularly help full and supportive.
Not everyone has had success with it. It didn't work for me! The only thing it killed was a couple serpent stars and a shrimp. For everyone else, I hope I am in the minority.
Never!
t4zalews
65g Ritteri Tank
Well since all my corals are pretty much dead, I'm just wrapping the tank for a couple weeks. No light, the few fish I have I can feed. I'll keep checking my levels for po4. I'll just start over again. My only real heartache was losing my vivid rainbow delight. Once that coral died I pretty much threw in the towel and then wrapped the tank with it
sahin
Ultimate Reefer
That sucks big time. I feel for you; I was forced to do a restart too and lost some prize corals.
Good luck with the restart.
sahin
Ultimate Reefer
I also did my 2nd restart without new rocks. I replaced some of the rocks due to interesting shapes I came across, but I kept about 1/2 old rock with the Dinos.
I literally squirted copious amounts of Peroxide over the surface of the rock and placed into a bucket with a powerhead for a week. After this I poured half a bottle of Ultra Algae X into the bucket after a complete water change.
I then left this for another week or so and carried out a further water change.
After a few weeks there were no Dinos left. Once it went into the tank, the rocks were subjected to further weeks of no light, heavy skimming, use of various carbon dosing to reduce nutrients etc; all in the dark.
Its now been 8 months or so, and thank god, my tank is doing well. No Dinos.
