Adrnalnrsh
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I tried Peroxide and yes its the normal store bought kind. I didn't see results.
Dinoflagellates.
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I tried Peroxide and yes its the normal store bought kind. I didn't see results.
Billybatz9
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When did you apply it? At night or during the day?
Adrnalnrsh
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lights out if I recall correctly.
I did 1ml/10gal for 10 days with lights on and nothing, then I did another 5 days with 4 days lights out and still nothing, might have ****ed the dinos off a bit but didn't make a dent.
I did dose at night with my skimmer off.
I have a question that I am very curious to hear a good answer to. My Dino disappear at night much like everyone else. My understanding here is that they go into the water column at night. How do we explain how they always end up in the same place the next morning? I literally have spots on the sand that show no Dino. The spots that are showing disappear at night and look the same (sometimes bigger) the next morning. And yet the spots that were clear the day before are still clear
DNA
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Things I did to beat Ostreopsis Ovata that worked or at least helped.
Somewhat in order.
-No water changes.
-Manual removal....blowing off rocks and corals and vacuuming.
-Got microscope to ID and verify progress.
-10uM filter socks.
-Removed sand bed.
-Dirtied up the water....raised po4 to .03ppm and no3 to 5ppm from 0.
-Allowed green algae and cyano to grow.
-Added many diverse forms of plankton and cleanup crew.... from 1/2 dozen different suppliers.
-Started culturing and dosing phytoplankton and copepods.
-After I couldn't find anymore dinos I used chemiclean to remove the cyano.
-Installed a new shallow sand bed....caribsea seaflor special.
-Began loving the hobby again.
NOTE1: early on I was dosing beneficial bacteria but stopped and haven't added any since.
NOTE2: I used algaex to try to rid bubble algae that decimated my ecosystem and brought on my dino bloom.
Somewhat in order.
-No water changes.
-Manual removal....blowing off rocks and corals and vacuuming.
-Got microscope to ID and verify progress.
-10uM filter socks.
-Removed sand bed.
-Dirtied up the water....raised po4 to .03ppm and no3 to 5ppm from 0.
-Allowed green algae and cyano to grow.
-Added many diverse forms of plankton and cleanup crew.... from 1/2 dozen different suppliers.
-Started culturing and dosing phytoplankton and copepods.
-After I couldn't find anymore dinos I used chemiclean to remove the cyano.
-Installed a new shallow sand bed....caribsea seaflor special.
-Began loving the hobby again.
NOTE1: early on I was dosing beneficial bacteria but stopped and haven't added any since.
NOTE2: I used algaex to try to rid bubble algae that decimated my ecosystem and brought on my dino bloom.
Billybatz9
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The 10um filter socks will capture the dinos we can't see in the water?
Wow. Great. Thank you for sharing. My Dino was appeared since I started dosing voka. I then stopped the voka dosing and it faked away. I keep my routine water change biweekly. Currently, I am running GFO reactor and dosing vinegar mixed with voka and RODI water. So far so good.
Yes, Ostreopsis is @ 40uM in size.
Some species a little smaller but 10uM should catch them all.
I get 2 days but I imagine it would be one day if you use the VSV method.
Ahhhhhh crap. Was doing so good I thought. I was siphoning just a small dusting of them every two days or so. But yesterday I moved some rock work to create better flow throughout and BAM!! Huge Dino bloom. Looks like I'll try the small micron sock and get more pods. You guys been using algae barn, correct?
Ya I used algae barn but I really liked reefcleaners pods and pods+Ahhhhhh crap. Was doing so good I thought. I was siphoning just a small dusting of them every two days or so. But yesterday I moved some rock work to create better flow throughout and BAM!! Huge Dino bloom. Looks like I'll try the small micron sock and get more pods. You guys been using algae barn, correct?
http://www.reefcleaners.org/aquarium-store/pods
