Dinos effect on sps
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M Woodhill
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kill those aholes really bad for everything
try fauna x-algae, very efficient if the instruction is followed. been there done that. again, really nasty aholes. it will soon swipe out your snails-pollute the water worse and explode your skimmer
try fauna x-algae, very efficient if the instruction is followed. been there done that. again, really nasty aholes. it will soon swipe out your snails-pollute the water worse and explode your skimmer
Put new carbon and GFO in.. wrap your tank. Lights out 3-4 days wit heavy skimming. Replace GFO and carbon the morning you turn your lights back on... this part is very important...
I tried everything everyone recommended... no doses of anything worked... hydrogen peroxide neither... till someone told me my mistake was not getting rid of the carbon and gfo after lights out... haven't seen any now for 7 months
I tried everything everyone recommended... no doses of anything worked... hydrogen peroxide neither... till someone told me my mistake was not getting rid of the carbon and gfo after lights out... haven't seen any now for 7 months
M Woodhill
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Big E
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There hundreds of species of algae,,,,,,,,I've had plenty that catch bubbles and will show up in a day's worth of lighting. Colors can be various browns or green colors.
They irritate zoas and small acro frags the most.
The only way to truly tell if they are dinos is with a microscope.
They irritate zoas and small acro frags the most.
The only way to truly tell if they are dinos is with a microscope.
I have had dino for three weeks. Still not sure on how they sprang up but they are now on the way out.
Things I did:
I noticed that the fuge was where most of it had taken over. I shut down flow to the fuge and cleaned it out while keeping healthy cheato to re-seed. Once this was complete (and it was disgusting) I refilled the fuge with freshly made SW.
I then went a little lighter on feeding, kept skimming, and actually only used GFO for a day or two. My corals seem to display signs of stress even when using less than half a cup of GFO on my 125.
Every day in the morning I would blow the dino off SPS tips (I had an alk swing early on and fried some tips, the result was dino on these tips). It seemed that as long as I blew them off in the morning/at night the corals really are not impacted to heavily. That said I have suffered some minor loss and STN, but it seems to have stopped.
Now I only have a few small spots where it is still clinging on, and I am confident it will be 100% clear in another month. I really think with dinos people go a little over board and cause more problems than they fix. I believe like all nuisance algae in the reef aquarium once it runs a course it goes away forever, or until something bad brings it back.
When in danger or in doubt clean your sump out.
Things I did:
I noticed that the fuge was where most of it had taken over. I shut down flow to the fuge and cleaned it out while keeping healthy cheato to re-seed. Once this was complete (and it was disgusting) I refilled the fuge with freshly made SW.
I then went a little lighter on feeding, kept skimming, and actually only used GFO for a day or two. My corals seem to display signs of stress even when using less than half a cup of GFO on my 125.
Every day in the morning I would blow the dino off SPS tips (I had an alk swing early on and fried some tips, the result was dino on these tips). It seemed that as long as I blew them off in the morning/at night the corals really are not impacted to heavily. That said I have suffered some minor loss and STN, but it seems to have stopped.
Now I only have a few small spots where it is still clinging on, and I am confident it will be 100% clear in another month. I really think with dinos people go a little over board and cause more problems than they fix. I believe like all nuisance algae in the reef aquarium once it runs a course it goes away forever, or until something bad brings it back.
When in danger or in doubt clean your sump out.
M Woodhill
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well. from this picture you can see how my dino's started
i lost those pictures due to the storage problem on photobucket. but i started to try all the things as mentioned on the forum:
1, light out=========>unless you'll never switch the light on again, they'll come back very soon
2, carbon and gfo====>i changed em regularly before the dino outbreak and stopped during the algae x dosing
3, blow em off======>they grew back very soon
4, peroxide dosing===>no effect
5, water change====>making things way worse
and this is how they were gone:
1, find the system that fits you the best. I switched back to zeo system, shutting down the gfo and continuing carbon as zeo instructed. i cleared the refugium and replaced it with a zeo reactor
2, dose Ultra Alge X for 21 days as instructed
3, cut down the lighting to 6 hours as instructed
4, remove all the snails--this is very helpful coz dino's kill snails and dead snails pollute the water
5, stop water change as instructed
6, siphon with a canister filter. if you dont have one, you can simply siphon through a sock coz you can't do water change so you gotta return the water after filtering
the label says after the 21 day treatment it may strike back but this situation didnt happen to me
ps: those brown bugs really bug your corals sps lps but anemone seems very fine with em
i lost those pictures due to the storage problem on photobucket. but i started to try all the things as mentioned on the forum:
1, light out=========>unless you'll never switch the light on again, they'll come back very soon
2, carbon and gfo====>i changed em regularly before the dino outbreak and stopped during the algae x dosing
3, blow em off======>they grew back very soon
4, peroxide dosing===>no effect
5, water change====>making things way worse
and this is how they were gone:
1, find the system that fits you the best. I switched back to zeo system, shutting down the gfo and continuing carbon as zeo instructed. i cleared the refugium and replaced it with a zeo reactor
2, dose Ultra Alge X for 21 days as instructed
3, cut down the lighting to 6 hours as instructed
4, remove all the snails--this is very helpful coz dino's kill snails and dead snails pollute the water
5, stop water change as instructed
6, siphon with a canister filter. if you dont have one, you can simply siphon through a sock coz you can't do water change so you gotta return the water after filtering
the label says after the 21 day treatment it may strike back but this situation didnt happen to me
ps: those brown bugs really bug your corals sps lps but anemone seems very fine with em
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