Dinos or Cyano? Peroxide Test

[Samina]

A fifty is right at the breakpoint where it's not terrible work to take it apart, rinse the sandbed, clean off algae and kill it off the rocks, all before sundown.

Take out current water and hold it for reuse after manual cleaning. Put back together a skip cycle, perfectly clean tank. It's amazing to opt out of a weeks long invasion sequence where all actions subject corals to sustained parameter changes in hopes of addressing a bad hitchhiker. I always advocate tank cleaning, it produces uninvaded systems at the cost of work.

It's so powerful to rob the system of the invader first, then apply all the nutrient steps you are about to solely as growback prevention, not as killer and removal and growback prevention.

Thank you for the advice! You bring up a great point and your method does have its appeal as I would be able to thoroughly clean the rock and reaquascape which I have been itching to do. Although, I am weary of possibly messing something up in the process though. I am going to take GFO offline and see what that does for the tank. Hopefully that helps balance off things to help kick thing in the right direction.

 

[brandon429]

Excellent. If you do want to, I've built a large thread around the process. We never lose a thing, and in the thread I've done my own tank a few times just to participate. Preemptive or reactive, this is skip cycle biology:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/the-official-sand-rinse-thread-aka-one-against-many.230281/page-10

If you ever want to force it out, it's possible to do so with zero losses, the neat hidden detail is sandbed waste.


Once you isolate all animals from sandbed waste, nothing messes up. Handy to try other approaches first, but if a clinch win is needed, that'll do it.

 

[reefwiser]

That’s so good to hear!! I bet you are so relieved? Does it depend on the strain of dinos when it comes to whether a UV would be effective in terms of elimination? Or would it works on all of the strains?

Well I have ran into Dino’s many different times in the past 30 years. I know when I see that my filter floss is brown and my skimmer cup fills with brown liquid that using a UV will take care of the problem. As they are in the water column.