Instant Ocean. Salt brand is irrelevant, though. If you have any invasive species, they're going to be invasive no matter what salt mix you use as long as they consider your tank to have 'favorable conditions'.It took about a week for the cuprisorb to make a difference.
Btw what salt brand do you use?
There really isn't much else to do, unfortunately. A freshwater soak like that was the ace up my sleeve. Everything in that tank is set to be trashed, save for the maxi mini anemones, but I see no issue with keeping it running until what is in it now is all dead. The gorgonians are gone, most of my zoas (the ones on the plugs) are gone, my big leather is melting away. I've basically just got a few ricordea, a couple mushrooms, and the zoas and palys that I basically started the hobby with that are attached to rocks. Sigh.jedimasterben... in 3 days they are back with a vengeance.
At least your experiment contributes important information.
Full tank freshwater exposure does not get rid of dinos.
100% water change does not get rid of dinos.
There could be some long term results so keep looking.
Please don't start over right away for the sake of science.
The completely new saltwater in the tank shows us there is nothing specific with the water chemistry causing dino blooms.
There is bound to be some die off from this causing changes, but in 3 days that would be the effect of a regular new cycle.
Your dinos are from the dark side jedimaster-ben.
I've attempted to remove as much red from the pictures as possible, but I'm not too proficient in Lightroom just yet, so they're the best I can do at this point. They are your typical 'brown snot'.Jedi, are your dinos really as red as they appear in your pictures, or is that just a visual effect from the lights or camera? And did you have Pants ID them for you?
Possibly it had more surface area and a rougher surface to latch on to.I just discovered something that is interesting. Since I have never heard this before in relation to dinos I thought I would pass it along.
Today I added about 15 lbs of pink somoa sand (not live) sand to my refugium. I was curious if there was any particular reason the dinos weren't growing much in my refugium and so thought to recreate the environment of the aquarium above. My refugium never had any substrate. Just caulerpa.
Within 4 hours, dino populations exploded. And I mean exploded. Dinos rose to much larger than normal heights in their usual spots and started covering all the rocks. The substrate began literally bubbling as new dinos formed (even in tank areas where I did not add sand).
(and yes, these are not diatoms -- as you might expect from the addition of sand -- although I wonder if there are both present)
Possibly it had more surface area and a rougher surface to latch on to.
Has anyone had results from adding an algae scrubber. The manufacturer of Santa Monica Filtration claims that Dinos will be the first nuisance algae to go with an algae scrubber. Any experience with this or validity? Would hate to pop for $200-$300 if it will not work, however would be happy to spend that if it works.
Tracing back a few steps.
I raise nitrates and it makes a considerable dent in the dinos.
Algae moves in and covers much of my rocks.
Dinos move back in and sit comfortably on top of the algae.
Cyano really gets going and covers the dinos.
Now I have less than 5% of the dinos left and would call that acceptable.
The algae on the rocks is fading as well.
I the past dinos out-competed the algae and it hardly grew at all.
My tank, a few weeks ago, with lots of algae did have lots of dinos as well at the same time.