swapping tank?

[jfuka78]

This weekend I will be filling up my 180 and using rock from my sump in my 75 to cycle and a cup of sand. Here is my issue after the new tank cycles and I move my fish how can I clean my current live rock in my 75. I am having a very bad dynoflaguites issue and this has wiped out pretty much all my corals. I want to make sure this does not travel into the new system. What causd my issue was laziness on changing my ro membrane. The silicate that is in my city water, I believed caused this to happen.

 

[bertoni]

If the problem is silicate, some siphoning of the slime should reduce the problem over time, assuming the silicate input is zero now. I might leave the rock in the dark for a week or so, and run a lot of GFO and do some water changes to remove the nutrients released by decaying microbes. I wouldn't do that until all the corals and cleanup crew are moved, along with the fish, though.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Silicate wouldn't cause dinoflagellates since they do not use silicate.

Are you sure the problem isn't diatoms?

 

[jfuka78]

Brown algae growing on rocks and glass, every time u do a water change it gets worse. I tried chem clean. Then did the water change after two days later. Yes I followed the instructions.

Maybe cycle the tank with a couple peices from sump that are clean. Then tranfer fish and then nuke the. 75 with heavy dose and leave lights off?

Brs dual reactor should u run carbon in both for now or gfo and carbon?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Is the brown algae "snotty"? That is the usual description of dinos.

Do you have a picture?

 

[jfuka78]

Yea snotty. What is my solution so it does not transfer

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I'm not sure how hard it is to remove traces of dinos from rocks as I've not seen many folks take that approach. It is a tough problem to deal with and there is no easy answer.