Dinos and tank change

[Nathan80]

I’m about to collapse 3 smaller tanks into one much larger (cheer from my wife lol!). My challenge is the one tank has a pretty bad outbreak of dinos. I’ve been battling it and trying to get the Params up (I let them bottom out - my bad), but its proving stubborn.

Has anyone got any suggestions to get rid of them prior to moving? If I dip them on the way out in something like RO would that get rid of it? I can lose the rock (well, not lose it but bleach it and kill everything on it that way before I recycle it for another project). If possible given that this tank is going anyway I want to move the corals to their new home, but not transfer the dinos.

Coral Is a mixture - some SPS, some LPS And some softies so a bit of everything. Main thing I’m worried about is the one chalice and the Aussie gold torch in there

Has anyone got any suggestions?
Thanks
Nathan

 

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I’m about to collapse 3 smaller tanks into one much larger (cheer from my wife lol!). My challenge is the one tank has a pretty bad outbreak of dinos. I’ve been battling it and trying to get the Params up (I let them bottom out - my bad), but its proving stubborn.

Has anyone got any suggestions to get rid of them prior to moving? If I dip them on the way out in something like RO would that get rid of it? I can lose the rock (well, not lose it but bleach it and kill everything on it that way before I recycle it for another project). If possible given that this tank is going anyway I want to move the corals to their new home, but not transfer the dinos.

Coral Is a mixture - some SPS, some LPS And some softies so a bit of everything. Main thing I’m worried about is the one chalice and the Aussie gold torch in there

Has anyone got any suggestions?
Thanks
Nathan

I just finished a battle with dinos and I’m not sure I would risk transferring stuff from that tank over to the new one. If you want to transfer the corals, you could always quarantine them in one of the existing tanks without the dinos. Mine happened because of nutrients bottoming out too, and it took months to finally get things under control. Just my 0.02.

 

[Nathan80]

Yeah - last time I had it it took months to sort out too. I bit off more than I could chew with the number of tanks I have if I’m honest (Hence why I‘;m collapsing 3 smaller into 1 bigger) - one of the others that I’m collapsing down has a horrendous outbreak of GHA. I suppose I could just move the corals into there and see what comes out ontop - dino or GHA!

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

I moved my rock from a dino infested tank into my new tank after rinsing with H202 and setting them in a dark container for 2 weeks. They came back in the new tank just a strong because I failed to correct the issue in the first place. Not saying that I would trash the rock either but that the issue needs to be fixed as dinos can remain in the rock, sand, water and on equipment and will explode unless you can diversify and mature the tank... Just my thoughts.

 

[taricha]

Use your two good tanks to start up the new tank. Don't bring anything from the bad tank at first.
If the new tank gets healthy and established, then a simple rinse/dip etc ought to be fine.