This is dinos, isn't it?

[tatuaje08]

Like I said....different types of dino require different methods to cure. I believe randys article explains the different types. You can try..

8.4ph, no higher and no lower
Black out for 3 days, then shorten light cycle to 4 hours per day
Dose peroxide 1ml per gallon of total system water
Syphon as much out as possible and replace the old eater you syphon out
No water changes until it is gone!

 

[StormShacer]

Thank you everyone for their input! Tomorrow and possibly the next few days il keep the lights off and go crazy with a turkey baster! What Kahuna said sounds like a great idea so il be trying that.

Potsy mentioned earlier of a product called Fauna Marin ultra Algea X, anyone have experience with this or a similar product. i have never heard of a product to destroy dinos before :fun5:

Lastly, i just raid Randy's article. Very interesting, problem is my pH was at 7.8 today sooo. Hydrogen Peroxide might be my means of eliminating them after i weaken them with the turkey baster and loss of light

 

[cody6766]

I had a bad bout of dinos a few years ago. I tried heavy water changes with no avail. I tried no water changes and was left with the same. Blackouts worked for about half a day, but they would always return shortly after removing the covers. I tried blackouts anywhere from 1-8 days, several times. I tried peroxide and peroxide with any of the above treatments. The peroxide treatment seemed to work for a while, but the dinos seemed to develop a resistance to the treatment and I had to up the dose to get results. I gave up on it after a while as it wasn't working. I then tried Kalk to up the pH. It worked in the end. I'm not sure if it was the kalk or the kalk plus blackouts, or even if I did the blackouts with the kalk treatment, but the elevated pH was my key. Do a lot of reading on the matter before you go trying every treatment mentioned in this thread. As you can see, there are many different solutions thought to cure this issue. I'm sure some come from people thinking they have dinos and curing some other infestation and some come from treating different types of dinos that are sensitive to different things. When you do decide on a plan, stick to it and resist the urge to combine treatments midstream. You want to work from one solution to another and find the treatment or combination that works. If you throw multiple treatments at it at once you'll never know if it was an individual component that fixed the problem, or a combination.

 

[tatuaje08]

I don't think it matters what cures the problem, as long as it gets cured. Getting rid of dino usually requires a combination of different methods. I say try them all at once. You shouldn't harm anything. I've battled them before by increasing my ph, reducing the light cycle, dosed peroxide and did zero water changes. Took a few weeks but I finally won.

 

[StormShacer]

I don't think it matters what cures the problem, as long as it gets cured. Getting rid of dino usually requires a combination of different methods. I say try them all at once. You shouldn't harm anything. I've battled them before by increasing my ph, reducing the light cycle, dosed peroxide and did zero water changes. Took a few weeks but I finally won.

Exactly. im looking to obliterate this thing fast and swiftly with a bunch of the suggested methods.

Question: How do i use the kalk to raise the pH?

 

[wonderz]

Saturated Kalk water has PH of around 12 or 13. Just by dosing Kalk, it will raise your PH. That's why it was suggested to dose Kalk to raise PH which supposedly limits dino growth.

 

[StormShacer]

Alright then here's what I'm going to do...

Step 1: Siphon out all the Dino's i can.
2: Apply kalk to water and turn off all the lights for three days
3: With a now small and weak population, I will add hydrogen peroxide to finish them

Any problems? Any more possible steps i could use like the product mentioned earlier?

Oh and something i forgot to mention, my diamond goby has been eating the Dino's when he goes to grab some sand

 

[reefloverd1]

so how did that work for ya?