Ostreopsis Dino?

[MadTownFess]

I'm for raising NO3 and PO4, siphoning them out through a filter sock and UV. I had ostreopsis bad and lost several corals. It started off not so bad and then got worse. I got a cheap over-sized UV on amazon and have it over my display tank. Recently shut it off and watching to see if they return. Added some LFS live rock rubble to boost bacterial diversity and ordered a population of amphipods too. Been a couple of months now with things back to normal. I plan on removing the UV and keeping it ready if they ever show up again.

When you say clean it.. you mean bleach the rocks? Or how? I can't imagine starting over... finally getting coralline growth and the system is finally stable... what would I do with all my corals and fish?

 

[brandon429]

this thread has 20 pages of work in the matter.

 

[brandon429]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...ead-aka-one-against-many.230281/#post-2681445

-no recycles, or loss of systems during deep cleans
-no bleach
-the deep cleaning everyone fears is what we do during normal tank moves
all we recommend you try is the same stuff 100 tanks here did because they were moving homes...or handling a tank invasion. its not that hard of a job if the tank isn't huge.
-we show that deep cleaning is simply powerful. if it doesn't work for you, then in the end you'll have a clean tank to try other methods.
-our method handles detritus, its de-clouding of your system. This prevents/works against future invasions like GHA and cyano which don't always respond to the treatment options for dinos...we are helpful across many types of invaders we show.

 

[Rjmul]

if you have a nano, take it apart and clean them out of the whole system all at once. we have 20+ page threads on the action

not a water change, literally taking the reef apart, cleaning it, setting it up back as new, though it is technically ____ days old already. excluding every cell of the invader but keeping all the other items we want. not hard

if you have a large tank, then the inevitable delay allows massing time/standard battle continues

hoping this is nano, an opt out option awaits. for a large tank, they will opt directly in to a full on invasion. all based on gallons, not species. anything that can be drained 100% into a brute can I consider a nano, so I guess fifty gallons and below are better off being cleaned vs taking risks with time/allowed mass

This is terrible advice