hello i have diatoms in my tank

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bocube1993

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i been recently told to restart my tank by the guy who takes a look at my aquarium every now and then becouse i have dinos in it ....
he said that i have to totally take out everything sand water and rock corals in bucket and start over ....
i find this forum to have knowledge is this the best way to atack it or is there another way to beat dinos without taking out all my sand and rocks and rinse it ?? i will have to fill all the tank back and is just alot of work :( and water as it is 54 gallons to drain
 
best i could get as the tank was all dark is a close up of the rock..
some of the rock is covered with that and sand bed as well ....
 
Dinos do not mean restart the tank.

Your tank is only 2 months old, and it will have these cycles and blooms. I had dino in mine and it came and went. You need to just keep testing parameters and try to keep them stable and in reasonable range.

If you want to get rid of it, you can black out the tank completely and starve it of light. If it /is/ dinos, it'll die and you can siphon it out. Might not get rid of it forever.

But you don't need to restart, not this early in the game.
 
bocube1993 said:
and also my phosphates are at .25 ten times higher
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Based on that I'd recommend you do a 50% water change (or a couple 25% a few days apart) and siphon out as much of the dinos as you can during that water change..

High phosphates typically indicate you are overfeeding or your rock is leaching phosphates..
How often and how much are you feeding and whats in the tank that you are feeding?
I would recommend feeding every other day and watch your phosphates and see how they respond to that..
 
The issue with just re-starting the tank is this will happen once more tell you fix the issue that is leading to the dinos. And I am willing to bet if you fix the issue the dinos will go away and there will be no need to re-start.
 
I fixed my Dino issues the ways stated above... I did a huge water change and siphoned as much dinos as I could..

I used a little 5/15 inside diameter piece of tubing to syphon the water out... that way I coukd maneuver and syphon all the dinos.. with ought taking out alot of water in the process.. then once I had the dinos out of the tank.. I got the bigger hose out and I did a 50 gallon water change.. roughly 50 percent of my total systems volume.. with fresh saltwater made with rodi water..

They haven't returned yet.. knock on wood

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Way too drastic. Its a two month old tank, if you expected it to be super pristine, you were very much mistaken. Tanks can be ugly for a while. Knee jerk reactions to restarting or nuking never address what caused the problem in the first place, thus most likely resulting in it happening again. Just focus on keeping the tank clean, maintain proper parameters, siphon them out when visible and it should work itself out just fine.
 
i do clean my sand bed every time i clean my tank i have ben doing 25 percent water changes every 4 days i did a black out took all the rock out scrubbed it kinda went away but it has not it came back but not as worst ....... and yess i agree with everyone i need to attack the problem and fix it ....
i feed every other day i feed pellets with garlic and sundays i feed all my tanks frozen brine shrimp ... i use one whole cube for all tanks i even it out its not alot ... is just a treat every sunday :) ...
what i did want to do was do another black out after that scrub and siphon everything out ..
but will it hurt my corals to be doing black outs often ??
 
in the tank i have soft corals and some easy lps corals
fishes
pair of bangai cardinals
pajama cardinal
pair of clarkis
bandit shrimp
 
bocube1993 said:
i do clean my sand bed every time i clean my tank i have ben doing 25 percent water changes every 4 days i did a black out took all the rock out scrubbed it kinda went away but it has not it came back but not as worst ....... and yess i agree with everyone i need to attack the problem and fix it ....
i feed every other day i feed pellets with garlic and sundays i feed all my tanks frozen brine shrimp ... i use one whole cube for all tanks i even it out its not alot ... is just a treat every sunday :) ...
what i did want to do was do another black out after that scrub and siphon everything out ..
but will it hurt my corals to be doing black outs often ??
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Depending on the amount and size your pellets could be the issue.
 
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