TriggerThis
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Ok researched the coral snow.
Interesting stuff.
Interesting stuff.
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Battling dino with elevated nitrates, thoughts?
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SDREEFS
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Ive been battling dinos too. I have nitrates around 60 and they have always been higher. I noticed them after I did a chemi clean treatment that I do regularly every 6 months. But ive been battling ive gone through 2 bottles of bacter clean m in two weeks and doskng microbacter. Its only on 3 acros.
Somebody said that it maybe silca acid coming through my rodi filter my tds is zero and I replace rowa every 2 weeks.
Im lost ive been doin weekly water and filter socks weekly. Ive run kalk for 2 years and my ph 8.3
Somebody said that it maybe silca acid coming through my rodi filter my tds is zero and I replace rowa every 2 weeks.
Im lost ive been doin weekly water and filter socks weekly. Ive run kalk for 2 years and my ph 8.3
SDREEFS
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Problem Dinoflagellates and pH by Randy Holmes-Farley - Reefkeeping.com
check out this read and also read the links in the article
check out this read and also read the links in the article
TriggerThis
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Ok so here I am a month later, not sure how all of your tanks are doing.
I dosed peroxide every day 1ml per ten gallons.
After two and a half weeks it had knocked it back quite a bit but was still maintaining it's presence, and the more Dino that died and went away, the more cyano appeared.
I was also heavy feeding through this time to keep the water dirtier.
Also I raised the alk to 10.5 dkh in the tank for the next week.
Cut my lighting schedule back a couple hours also.
Kept my GFO reactor fresh and going around the clock, kept it blasted off the rocks and corals as often as possible, cleaned the glass every day.
Noticed after two weeks the corals were looking bad. I think it was stress from the peroxide. I stopped peroxide use. Went back to normal feeding. Dino's started going away, cyano started going away.
Now I have just a few bubbles of Dino and a small spot of cyano where there is very low flow.
Idk what balanced out or eventually exhausted itself or maybe the cyano helped stomp it out.
100% not sure what helped and what didn't, but here it is 5 weeks later and I am 98% Dino free and 92% cyano free. All corals are open, all zoas are open full, clam is still happy.
The peroxide hurt the Dino's but I believe it also hurt the corals and kept them from being able to fend it off from attaching to them.
I dosed peroxide every day 1ml per ten gallons.
After two and a half weeks it had knocked it back quite a bit but was still maintaining it's presence, and the more Dino that died and went away, the more cyano appeared.
I was also heavy feeding through this time to keep the water dirtier.
Also I raised the alk to 10.5 dkh in the tank for the next week.
Cut my lighting schedule back a couple hours also.
Kept my GFO reactor fresh and going around the clock, kept it blasted off the rocks and corals as often as possible, cleaned the glass every day.
Noticed after two weeks the corals were looking bad. I think it was stress from the peroxide. I stopped peroxide use. Went back to normal feeding. Dino's started going away, cyano started going away.
Now I have just a few bubbles of Dino and a small spot of cyano where there is very low flow.
Idk what balanced out or eventually exhausted itself or maybe the cyano helped stomp it out.
100% not sure what helped and what didn't, but here it is 5 weeks later and I am 98% Dino free and 92% cyano free. All corals are open, all zoas are open full, clam is still happy.
The peroxide hurt the Dino's but I believe it also hurt the corals and kept them from being able to fend it off from attaching to them.
TriggerThis
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So maybe I stopped at just the right amount of time for the Dino to be knocked down and the corals to come back plus the cyano to take up whatever nutrients were left that it was feeding on.
Then the cyano was the easy part to get rid of all I had to do was cut back on feeding, more flow and some suction.
Here it was before
You can see the thick mat of algae on the back glass and sand bed, it was equal on all rock surfaces too.
Particularly affecting my soft corals by attaching to them and making then close.
And now here it is today.
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Then the cyano was the easy part to get rid of all I had to do was cut back on feeding, more flow and some suction.
Here it was before
You can see the thick mat of algae on the back glass and sand bed, it was equal on all rock surfaces too.
Particularly affecting my soft corals by attaching to them and making then close.
And now here it is today.
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TriggerThis
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This is the last bit of the cyano in the front right of the rock. Almost all of these palys were closed due to the Dino's attached to their stems.
Now they're all open and happy finally.
My sunny ds were really covered and did not open for the whole month. Thankfully they didn't melt. I lost heads of other zoas but they weren't expensive ones.
My purple hornets, red pe, and devils armor were also really affected by it and weren't open forever. This is them now.
Still some cyano Ina low flow area on the back right. All polyps are open on everything!
Oh yeah the Mohawks were all closed up and shriveled at first too. Now they are like nothing ever happened
These dudes were all closed the whole time too, I knew I was going to loose all of them. Only a few melted
Hopefully this gives someone hope out there.
Took me almost two months of fighting to keep the corals uncovered and alive while scraping and dosing and cleaning by the hour.
Something I did worked and my tank is finally back to where it was before the outbreak.
Oh I also added 10 more large Astraea snails to the tank. That helped too.
Another side note I just remembered, as the Dino's died a red turf algae started forming on my rocks. So as the Dino's died and the cyano multiplied the red turf algae started covering all the rocks where the Dino's were. Then the snails ate the red turf algae.
Finally just the cyano was left and feeding cutbacks with aggressive skimming and large amounts of GFO running, I choked it back.
Hopefully this helps
Now they're all open and happy finally.
My sunny ds were really covered and did not open for the whole month. Thankfully they didn't melt. I lost heads of other zoas but they weren't expensive ones.
My purple hornets, red pe, and devils armor were also really affected by it and weren't open forever. This is them now.
Still some cyano Ina low flow area on the back right. All polyps are open on everything!
Oh yeah the Mohawks were all closed up and shriveled at first too. Now they are like nothing ever happened
These dudes were all closed the whole time too, I knew I was going to loose all of them. Only a few melted
Hopefully this gives someone hope out there.
Took me almost two months of fighting to keep the corals uncovered and alive while scraping and dosing and cleaning by the hour.
Something I did worked and my tank is finally back to where it was before the outbreak.
Oh I also added 10 more large Astraea snails to the tank. That helped too.
Another side note I just remembered, as the Dino's died a red turf algae started forming on my rocks. So as the Dino's died and the cyano multiplied the red turf algae started covering all the rocks where the Dino's were. Then the snails ate the red turf algae.
Finally just the cyano was left and feeding cutbacks with aggressive skimming and large amounts of GFO running, I choked it back.
Hopefully this helps
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TriggerThis
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Awesome!
When it happens it just seems like a never ending fight. Then you hear about people just shutting down tanks when they get it and it really freaks you out.
I'm glad two of us have made it out alive! Lol
