My attack on the Dino's has been temporarily thwarted by treating my tank for white spot and although in the ten days for treatment I didn't have a massive outbreak again as I still believe the garlic helps keep them down skimmer was turned off and so was the UV and as per instructions carbon removed. I still siphoned out as much Dino as I could but here's a couple of things I noticed.
1, mine don't seem to be toxic and have watched my coral beauty actually eating it, whether he is suicidal is yet to be seen!
2, after dipping the bits of rock and frags which were worse the Dino's just returned in that area with avengance adding to my thoughts on the good bacteria being wiped out.
3, they like Kenya trees and zoas and polyp corals as well as plants including cheato in the sump but so far bubble tip and hammer relatively unscathed.
4, lights off has little effect except perhaps for keeping them in the water column and then through the UV but notice that they even like the dark areas under rocks leaving that dusty look like on the glass as opposed to brown stringy on top of rocks corals etc.
5 Uv definitely helps
6, dirty method has made no difference to mine as Nitrate reached 50 while treating the ws.
7, also wondering whether reduced lighting is counter productive as I have absolutely no algae growing despite nitrates being 25-50 over four weeks.
8 cheato isn't growing either! When inspected under the microscope it actually looks like the Dino's are inside or at least sticking firmly to the stems.
9, coral snow also seems to help if added at night
10 even after using turkey basted to suck em up they return quickly to their favourite spots!
11 they like the power heads and girl around the down pipe!
Now ws treatment is over it is all out war, still siphoning as much as possible, more pods, adding phyto and also going to add more bacteria and continuing to add garlic to tank rather than feed. I am using recommended dose as just daren't add too much. I have hydrogen peroxide but want to try pods and algae growth first. I am hoping that my thoughts on lack of the good bacteria may be a key thing here.
