There’s one thing I’m certain of
Blending methods is not the same as sticking a given method through. The hardest thing is choosing a method to deal with your invasion, the second hardest is not abandoning the method in eight days vs seeing it through, so many competing methods.
By opt out I mean the first day you saw a strand it was removed and never allowed to mass. You would be showing a tank of zero invader, but having to clean daily to attain that condition (seeking ways to work less) if you were opting out of the invasion...allowing it to build up as an expected uglies phase (even though we are constantly told to do that) is still opting into housing the invader and letting it mass.
The way we cycle affects how we deal with tank invasions because cycling authors linked early invasions as part of cycling vs just handling the bacteria aspect alone. The invasion part is unrelated to being able to process ammonia bioloading. To be invaded is a separate choice.
Dino invasions are shown across reefing having nothing to do with age of tank. New and old...
A bad hitchhiker (And no quarantine protocol for imports) caused your issues- your live rock is already aged the brs video is about bringing up unaged rocks. We can tell from the macro pic details your live rock is aged, don’t boil it. Choose a dino remediation method and stick it through.
I mentioned pond uv cuz it’s cheap and easy to oversize, you want something grossly overrated this is war, depending on how you choose to handle it.
It’s not about uv or lights off or nutrient tinkering, although any one or a combo can work. It’s about reinstating directed hand removal, making the target unable to mass. Then running those strong preventatives. The hand access portion was missing the whole time, both cyclers and dino tank workers will tell you to leave the invader in place, but I never would. This is why choosing a remediation method and sticking with it is so hard.
How many tanks did we lose to dinos here? We never hesitated once.
No params asked for
No ID needed, just rip cleans.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...ead-aka-one-against-many.230281/#post-2681445
Since your tank is large I do think it’s wise to -thoroughly- hand siphon it clean and install large uv and try a true dark blackout for three days with slow light ramp up, not bleaching strong light on day four.
If this doesn’t work, if you have a virile strain, then we’ve not messed up your other nutrient tuning options at all.
If we thought you had simple starting diatoms nobody would be concerned. We think you have dinos, known tank wreckers and they simply hitchhiked in, like catching a cold. Nothing bad in your tank caused them, they rode in on that frag above into an environment that allows massing.
