Dino ID
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Hello ... dinos in my new tank... annoying!
can i get tips on an id and if it responds to UV ? thanks!
These are Ostreopsis. They are very susceptible to UV as they enter the water column at night. The UV should be about 1 watt/3 gallons of tank volume (so if your tank is 90 gallons you would need a 30 watt UV). Don't go by manufacturer's recommendation on sizing and flow as they don't consider dino treatment at all in making them. The pump for the UV needs to be in the display and sized to supply about 1-3 times tank volume per hour. I like to start at the middle of that range (about 2x tank volume/hour).
Don't worry about the ugly UV installation. Usually it's only needed for a few weeks.
Try to get your nutrients up and balanced in about a 100:1 NO3 to PO4 ratio. Any other way you can add biodiversity is helpful as well.
if I had a 65 gallon tank with dinos resistant like that, I'd pull the sand, clean off all the rocks externally, re install them back as a skip cycle full tank clean bare bottom, then install the uv.
I would put back sand if applicable only after the system runs 60 days with no UV and no resurgence.
pulling sand surface area never causes a mini cycle, it's just important you don't vacuum it out with the tank full of water, has to be a disassembly removal to avoid spiking up waste around your corals and fish. they can go right back in the bare bottom ultra-clean setup among the old rocks that were washed off in saltwater externally, as a skip cycle holding system awaiting UV burn for a while.
if there's a sandbed I'd have it gone now for a while. houses, insulates and feeds dinos.
I would put back sand if applicable only after the system runs 60 days with no UV and no resurgence.
pulling sand surface area never causes a mini cycle, it's just important you don't vacuum it out with the tank full of water, has to be a disassembly removal to avoid spiking up waste around your corals and fish. they can go right back in the bare bottom ultra-clean setup among the old rocks that were washed off in saltwater externally, as a skip cycle holding system awaiting UV burn for a while.
if there's a sandbed I'd have it gone now for a while. houses, insulates and feeds dinos.
And why would you go to all that trouble when you can have it gone in a couple of weeks by just putting the UV in to begin with?
