You have to attack it from different angles. I just killed mine off doing the following:
Please help. Been battling these critters for over a month now with Nitrate was undetectable and po4 was .35. I Won the battle with 3.5 days blackout and dosing h202 and was able to bring no3 to now 20 ppm and po4 .10. few weeks later they are back. tanks is almost 3 months old. I am currently dosing Dino X. been 6 days with no result
Those are ostreopsis dinos. Keep phosphates and nitrates measurable to encourage the growth of dino competitors. Then run UV on your tank. About 1 watt UV per every 3 gallons of system water. Run from DT back to DT for best efficiency at about 1-3 tank volumes per hour of flow through the UV. UV is very effective against ostreopsis.
Please help. Been battling these critters for over a month now with Nitrate was undetectable and po4 was .35. I Won the battle with 3.5 days blackout and dosing h202 and was able to bring no3 to now 20 ppm and po4 .10. few weeks later they are back. tanks is almost 3 months old. I am currently dosing Dino X. been 6 days with no result
I personally wouldn’t use dinoX in my tank, but it might work for you.
Honestly what I told you I have done works. May not work on every tank, but I am not affraid of dinos. I had a bad hanna checker that told me I had .04 and .06 phosphates for weeks to find out it was zero. Anyways, I have replaced it and done what I told you to do. Make sure your you are not running gfo, carbon, and uv while using dino x. I was using uv the whole time when I had dino and it did nothing, I had water trickling threw the uv. My tank is always running uv at all times and it didn't stop dinos from happening. Everyone has opinions, and I have listened to them before. Nothing worked before until I did what I told you. Phosphate is the key to keeping dino away. I had a slide with dinos moving around under a microscope, I added a drop of phosphate to the slide and they all stopped moving. I prefer not to use chemicals in my tank, but if it will destroy the hobby for me, then I will use it. Its do you want to leave the hobby and let it destroy your tank, or take a chance and enjoy the hobby. During treatment, I lost 1 cleaner shrimp and a couple snails. This will kill all algea and I found out sponge. I had sponge growing out of
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Please help. Been battling these critters for over a month now with Nitrate was undetectable and po4 was .35. I Won the battle with 3.5 days blackout and dosing h202 and was able to bring no3 to now 20 ppm and po4 .10. few weeks later they are back. tanks is almost 3 months old. I am currently dosing Dino X. been 6 days with no result
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I am months after having the outbreak and I am still only on blue lighting too afraid to use white lighting! I found up to 80% blue OK but as soon as I went to 85% the Dino's started to return. I have now upgraded the UV and am now prioritising very small water changes over increasing light intensity. My plan is to ensure this will not cause the Dino's to return before I start increasing light intensity. I will then add 2% to blues weekly to get to 100%. If I can get to that stage for several weeks I will start adding white lighting 1% increments each week.
I had ostreopsis and UV wiped them out completely in 7 days. I installed an Aqua UV Classic 57 watt on around 140 gallons of water volume and running flow through the UV unit at around 300 gph. It was an amazing fix for ostreposis.
If you’re interested, I have more details on a post (#57) on my build thread.
Build Thread - Randy's Redsea Reefer 250 and the rest of the Coral Farm
@RandyC So the Outside Diameter, directly outside of the female threads of part number 42221 is 32 mm? I see BRS discontinued their Vertex conversion unions.
Need to use refresh During the 3 days of blackout then start waste away.
