Yeah the anemone is the reason I want to avoid. But you said you noticed results as soon as you started he ich attack right?
Also, have you done anything different regarding water changes? More? Same or stopped completely as some have suggested.
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Yeah the anemone is the reason I want to avoid. But you said you noticed results as soon as you started he ich attack right?
Also, have you done anything different regarding water changes? More? Same or stopped completely as some have suggested.
Ya I noticed a for sure improvement the day after the first dose of ich attack.
I siphon out about 5 gallons of dinos every 2 days and put about 3.5g of that water back in after filtering it through paper towels 2 layers of paper towels seems to work well. I would add all the water back in but the last couple gallons is really saturated with dinos so I fill the rest with new water. Water changes defiantly make the dinos bloom more but the small amount I change through this process doesn't seem to have as bad of an effect as larger changes does.
I also use a credit card to scrape as much them off the walls as possible. If your careful and turn your pumps off and scrape straight up it usually almost all comes up with the credit card
I've been keeping my skimmer on during treatment as my nitrates are a bit higher then I like them so I'm not sure what effect turning it off would have while dosing.
I have no carbon, gfo, or purgien or anything like that
I siphon out about 5 gallons of dinos every 2 days and put about 3.5g of that water back in after filtering it through paper towels 2 layers of paper towels seems to work well. I would add all the water back in but the last couple gallons is really saturated with dinos so I fill the rest with new water. Water changes defiantly make the dinos bloom more but the small amount I change through this process doesn't seem to have as bad of an effect as larger changes does.
I also use a credit card to scrape as much them off the walls as possible. If your careful and turn your pumps off and scrape straight up it usually almost all comes up with the credit card
I've been keeping my skimmer on during treatment as my nitrates are a bit higher then I like them so I'm not sure what effect turning it off would have while dosing.
I have no carbon, gfo, or purgien or anything like that
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I hope it works.It seems that parvilucifera finally got rid of my ostreopsis problem. I keep some of it to share with whoever needs it (or just myself if it comes back).
Now I have a slight amphidinium problem, another kind of dino which is easier to deal with. I think I'm going to try the Kordon way and check if it works. Corals seem to start thriving again.
Now I have a slight amphidinium problem, another kind of dino which is easier to deal with. I think I'm going to try the Kordon way and check if it works. Corals seem to start thriving again.
That's great news, if not for the microscope I can't tell if I have dinos.
Keep us posted.
Amphiprion
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It's funny you mention the last part. I don't have a current scope to ascertain what genus I currently have, but individual cells are quite large and a easily visible with the naked eye, taking on that characteristic "grainy" appearance. While the onset of the bloom was very fast, they are slowly starving themselves. They don't seem to be nearly as resilient as the Ostreopsis I had before and, surprisingly, aren't currently killing everything in sight. There are two things the bloom coincided with--re-commencement of homemade two part dosing and fresh carbon (from an old bucket from BRS). I have started dosing kalkwasser instead to at least address Ca/alk needs while I rule things out.
As far as the Kordon product goes, I thought I had some, but apparently not. I will obtain some, as no one locally has it, but I will wait to see how the current situation plays out. Something is definitely prompting the blooms, as nothing else had changed other than those two factors. Could be a coincidence, but I don't like just how coincidental the two additions above actually were. Will keep updating.
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On day 2 of my peroxide journey. 5ml of 3% every 24hrs on a 50gal total system, tank is wrapped up in boxes right now for a 72hr lights out portion. ill then run low lights for the next few days then back to normal lighting and continue dosing every 24hrs until everything dies or im happy. I have two clowns, one royal grama, one cleaner shrimp, clean up crew, macro algae and a mixed reef. I am also currently running my skimmer, GAC and GFO during the process. If that doesn't work in the next 14 days ill start adding Kordon.
We will see how it goes.
We will see how it goes.
Algae X only killed like 20% of my dinos. Kinda made me think that maybe I had 2 different types at the same time.
Kordon doesnt seem to kill them...turn them from brown to dead white color, it just seems to drastically slow their growth. After siphoning out the dinos they do not grow back like they normally do
Kordon doesnt seem to kill them...turn them from brown to dead white color, it just seems to drastically slow their growth. After siphoning out the dinos they do not grow back like they normally do
https://vimeo.com/121040617
You can see all these strings on the glass. This is pretty much what it's looking like.
You can see all these strings on the glass. This is pretty much what it's looking like.
First off I want to think everyone for the wealth of information regarding dinos. It is by far the single most informed and detailed collection of facts regarding dinos in our reef tanks, that I have found anywhere online. Took me several days of reading but finally made it through all 35 pages.
Without a microscope I know its just a guess, but I believe I have amphidinum.
It does disappear with black outs, but returns 1-2 weeks after. I have also been using H202 at around 2ml/10gal with some success.
The issue started about a month ago. I identified it when thin brown strings were attaching to various spots of shells in my substrate. I also found several brown strands on my pom pom xenia. It was not matting and all the strands were only about 1-3cm long. I wanted to catch it early so I started dosing H202 and on the 4th day of dosing went lights out for 48hrs. This caused it disappear visually. (Obviously it remained in my water column)
Roughly 2 weeks later I noticed a single 1/2 inch strand on my zoas and 2 small strings on my xenia again. So I repeated the same treatment.
Though I have been dosing H202 @ 2ml/10gal twice a day, more agressive than is usually recommended, for 14 days and stopped last friday.
Yesterday (2days after stopping H202) it showed back up.
I noticed my goniopora not fully extending. Closer examination showed about (6) seperate one inch strands coming off the polyps. I was hoping this was just the coral dispelling waste. But as the strands blew loose they attached to nearby rocks and swayed for 30 min or so before being blown into the water column. When floating in the water column the pieces stayed together for about a minute then slowly dissolved. Strings only show up during the last half of my 6hr light cycle.
Has anyone else had any variation of dinos attach only to certain corals?
I have a mix of LPS and SPS. My xenia and goniopora seem to be magnets for dinos while none of my other coral get any strings.
Without a microscope I know its just a guess, but I believe I have amphidinum.
It does disappear with black outs, but returns 1-2 weeks after. I have also been using H202 at around 2ml/10gal with some success.
The issue started about a month ago. I identified it when thin brown strings were attaching to various spots of shells in my substrate. I also found several brown strands on my pom pom xenia. It was not matting and all the strands were only about 1-3cm long. I wanted to catch it early so I started dosing H202 and on the 4th day of dosing went lights out for 48hrs. This caused it disappear visually. (Obviously it remained in my water column)
Roughly 2 weeks later I noticed a single 1/2 inch strand on my zoas and 2 small strings on my xenia again. So I repeated the same treatment.
Though I have been dosing H202 @ 2ml/10gal twice a day, more agressive than is usually recommended, for 14 days and stopped last friday.
Yesterday (2days after stopping H202) it showed back up.
I noticed my goniopora not fully extending. Closer examination showed about (6) seperate one inch strands coming off the polyps. I was hoping this was just the coral dispelling waste. But as the strands blew loose they attached to nearby rocks and swayed for 30 min or so before being blown into the water column. When floating in the water column the pieces stayed together for about a minute then slowly dissolved. Strings only show up during the last half of my 6hr light cycle.
Has anyone else had any variation of dinos attach only to certain corals?
I have a mix of LPS and SPS. My xenia and goniopora seem to be magnets for dinos while none of my other coral get any strings.
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Water changes dont help other then letting you siphon out the dinos. You should be siphoning them out filtering the water through something and then returning the water to the tank
water changes always fueled the bloom in my case, i'm about 4 months with no water changes, aggressive removal and siphoning and filtering has worked for me. a few weeks ago i removed as much of my substrate as i could and that helped a lot, i still see a few dinos under the microscope but mostly diatoms an other algaes, corals and rocks are clean and no strings, if not for the microscope i wouldn't know i have any dinos, i'm going to do a WC soon to see what happens, just trying to get up the nerve.
i have ostreopsis.
i have ostreopsis.
