Time to restart?
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If you've been battling this for awhile, then you should be doing weekly water changes/vacuuming sandbed. Is that accumulation from just 7 days?
When I started Vibrant I was at a point where I had GHA taking over and my glass would be dirty just one hour after cleaning. After the first dose, I didn't have to clean my glass for a week. After 2 or 3 weeks, the GHA was noticeably shrinking. After 2 months, it's all gone and I clean my glass once every 10-14 days.
But Vibrant was not a cure all, I also blew the rocks off daily, scrubbed every problem area with a toothbrush to manually remove the weakened algae weekly, and increased my water change frequency/volume to export the dying algae for 6 weeks or so.
When I started Vibrant I was at a point where I had GHA taking over and my glass would be dirty just one hour after cleaning. After the first dose, I didn't have to clean my glass for a week. After 2 or 3 weeks, the GHA was noticeably shrinking. After 2 months, it's all gone and I clean my glass once every 10-14 days.
But Vibrant was not a cure all, I also blew the rocks off daily, scrubbed every problem area with a toothbrush to manually remove the weakened algae weekly, and increased my water change frequency/volume to export the dying algae for 6 weeks or so.
I actually have not done a water change in about 6 weeks due to covid. I been waiting for amazon to deliver my salt. I normally buy the the salt already made-up but wanted to go back to making my own and only buying Rodi freshwater.
I don't see anything that screams dino to me. The tank actually looks really good.
Again, if you really want to know..you need a microscope. besides its actually pretty fun you can see ALL kinds of stuff in your aquarium
Again, if you really want to know..you need a microscope. besides its actually pretty fun you can see ALL kinds of stuff in your aquarium
Skynyrd Fish
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It doesn’t look like Dino. Dino covers your tank in rust colored snot with long strands. It also get bubbles attached to it.
Chefwheredyougo
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It does look like diatoms. Your tank looks really good and corals seem happy in those pics. Thats not the case with dinos. You mentioned in buying rodi from your LFS, do you test this water for TDS? The filters may have been going out and allowed some silicate into the water, or... they could be selling you tap water, (you never know).
Went to WWC today! The guys recommend a UV. I don't have 150 bucks right now since I have been out of work for 2 months. He then said us a gfo. I told himI have chemi pure blue. I also have Rowa at home. So he said chemi pure elite. Then he said a cuc. I already have enough of them. Last he said suck up the sand and do smaller more frequent water changes. I will go with that option since I have nothing but time. I also added Rowa today.
