right so is a stiff nail brush any good? Also, does this work with the super super porous real reef rock- ive broken a few pieces of that up and im not sure its possible to remove detritus from all of it
we become the dentist, your rock is a bad tooth for now. Corals are gum zones we work around them by working in your sink like a reef dentist using dental tools and means.
peroxide
a rasp. Mines an old time pocket knife from 1979 it’s specifically better than other pocket knives
clean saltwater as the flush.
take the test area and detail it with steel. Debride, lift, scrape, be the urchin where it needs to be. Be saltwater flushing the scrapes and picks algae and dinos down the drain, you haven’t harmed corals and my dentist doesn’t rasp my gums too much, rasping is for adhered plaque and its force scraped out.
when your rock is harmlessly cleaned with steel and saltwater, apply drops of peroxide where the rock was scraped. This kills micro targets.
we never hurt your corals on test rock.
rinse test rock put back a perfect detail tooth into the evo jaw.
You might have to use a turkey baster to get the crevices. Or fill them up with peroxide and rinse thoroughly afterwards.
OK but what about corals that are growing on the rock? I had a colony of zoas that had some weird other similar looking thing growing out of it that i am pretty sure wasnt aptasia, that i removed, but there are three heads that spread onto the rock that have survived. and my green zoas have spread all over the rocks and the main part is glued down very solidlyno that wont do, bristles cannot dislodge anchors given time to bore into rock.
only whats stated and your detailing required by the porosity by the rock will do, in the order listed. we wouldnt flood anything with peroxide, we wouldnt customize reef surgery on your first go we'd only do what the last two pages did, that way I can claim safety in advising all this crazy stuff.
a knife point, small tiny up scrapes, take some rock with you as you dig, the dentist occasionally hits gums and we bleed, this teaches how hesitation impacts a nano reef.
this could have been fixed when the whole invasion was the size of your test rock and the rest of the tank was clean. give the time needed so that one test rock looks perfect due to a knife and some saltwater and some peroxide.
can't skip or customize, but thats only if you are really ready. customizations wont really harm anything, they'll just give you shortcuts so you can leave impacted waste in the rock
I didn’t have a microscope so I wasn’t 100% but with everything I read points me to dino. Long stringy brown snot with bubbles everywhere. Clear (but not clear) and gets worst through the day especially towards the end of the day with lights on. Did water changes thinking it would help but made it worst. I understand diatoms can take many forms as well. Anyway UV killed it whether it’s dino or diatoms. A $20 UV solved my problems and glad as well since I have a lot expensive corals I had loaded (dumb thing I did cause I was impatient).
That could very well have been diatoms.
Just as a point to consider, before adding this sand, which was live, i rinsed many times in clean saltwater until there was little to no clouding when disturbed, and its only been like two weeks, will ripping it actually be worth it?
Doubtful. It would make more sense to siphon it out.
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Just out of interest, what other systems, bar your one in a jar, do you keep?Bacterial imbalance?
Hey all, I am pondering what may be going on microscopically with my reef. Heres a little background, I started my 20 long with refugium and skimmer 11 months ago and made the mistake of adding the macro algae too early. Because of that mistake I fought low nutrients and dinos until month 5 or 6...
we are about to see how badly he wants his reef fixed, its like yours even though pics haven't been updated yet.
its all about the size of the reef, his is 20
20 gallons means full access
full access means can fix, overnite. deliberately fixed. patterns
200 gallons might not can be taken apart and cleaned...we'd test for every param under the sun, order a bunch of additives to see what might work without for-sure test modeling, we'd add new animals (bioloading) to hopefully eat the invader, total unsurety would follow.
small reefs never have to put up with all that. I dont think there is a single pico reef running online who has dinos or cyano issues, they practice early strict guidance (the smaller the reef, the easier full access guiding)
very well skater boyall those tanks you see in that sand rinse work thread, they passed through me virtually lol or they'd be dead
actual reefs, just my vase. No other reef needed, its a crystal ball that tells me exactly how reefs work for sure and then we apply the tenets to large reefs so they can survive headache free.
12gallonsofhex is hesitating, wanting to keep the invasion. can he be wrested free from it? time w tell
all nano reef invasions are a matter of will...not biology, not chemistry.
applying or not applying a documented fix is a matter of choice only.
My tank is relatively small (45g) and I ran an even smaller tank awhile ago (24g) that both had dinos. Cleaning did nothing but upset the corals. I also have a Waterbox 130.4 that hasn’t had dinos yet. (Knock on wood)all those tanks you see in that sand rinse work thread, they passed through me virtually lol or they'd be dead
actual reefs, just my vase. No other reef needed, its a crystal ball that tells me exactly how reefs work for sure and then we apply the tenets to large reefs so they can survive headache free.
12gallonsofhex is hesitating, wanting to keep the invasion. can he be wrested free from it? time w tell
all nano reef invasions are a matter of will...not biology, not chemistry.
applying or not applying a documented fix is a matter of choice only.
