Dinos & Turkey Basting Daily

[Hallowhead]

Howdy,

I have a quick question - is basting my corals daily even multiple times a day to free the dinos that have settled on them bad? Does it have any negative impact on the corals themselves? When the dino film settles on the corals they close & are obviously irritated.

 

[Tahoe61]

The dino is more irritating I think.
Clean the mechanical filtration afterwards.
I blew off all dino from my corals during my tanks dino battle.
Lights out, maintain a pH around 8, no water changes.

 

[taricha]

Dinos directly attaching to coral seems to lead to coral tissue death RAPIDLY.

 

[Hallowhead]

Dinos directly attaching to coral seems to lead to coral tissue death RAPIDLY.

I'll keep blasting !

 

[Just_Pete]

I'll keep blasting !

If you have a filter pad, put it in the display tank when you blast. Attach with a clip and wash it off every other day or so. They will stick to it from the water column. Eventually you might have to take other measures like dr Tim’s recipe for Dino’s.

 

[taricha]

If you have a filter pad, put it in the display tank when you blast. Attach with a clip and wash it off every other day or so. They will stick to it from the water column.

yep. a filter pad in high flow and lit will collect plenty of visible brown in just a few hours. you'll be amazed how many dinos attach to it out of the water.

 

[Hallowhead]

yep. a filter pad in high flow and lit will collect plenty of visible brown in just a few hours. you'll be amazed how many dinos attach to it out of the water.

I'll do this ! I replace my filter pads every morning

 

[X-37B]

I blow off rocks every weekend. I have noticed/measured the po4.
My tank runs .02-.03 most of the time.
Everytime I blow off the rocks the po4 goes to .06-.08 then back down in around 12 hrs.
Just my observation for what its worth.