This one seems harder to diligently follow. Especially if you work outside your house etc.B) change filters daily before lights on.
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This one seems harder to diligently follow. Especially if you work outside your house etc.B) change filters daily before lights on.
You can do it in the morning before you leave should take like a minute at mostThis one seems harder to diligently follow. Especially if you work outside your house etc.
Unless you’re using a 5 micron sock or smaller, it won’t matter.This one seems harder to diligently follow. Especially if you work outside your house etc.
Exactly."There is no such thing as bad algae. There is only too much algae."
Very true!
Dinos/GHA/Cyano/Diatoms are always present in some amount, but should be in balance and not really visible ("too much")
It's when a void exist that allows one to take over, try to nuke Dinos with something like DinoX, immediately run into a cyano bloom, use chemi clean and then right back to Dinos..
Thanks. The tanks look even better now. I’ll add some updated pics on Monday.Gregg the pics are outstanding. that's what scuba diving looks like, from a healthy zone. things are busy per square inch, diverse, all kinds of packed in life but we don't see the cyanobacteria or dinos as the main eye-catcher. they're suppressed clearly.
that's diversity so sharply in focus it's neat to see the little competing periphyton/SantaMonica's favorite word and the suppression of the target without making a sterile-looking environment. pics are such great drivers of work threads nicely done.
Bryopsis is the only one I am still struggling with in my tank. I'm not really sure on how to cut it down since nothing really consumes it. Only option seems to be fluconazole, while keeping in mind that completely eliminating something can lead to other issues as well..OK, here is how the tank is looking 4 months (?) after getting the macro algae tank set up. As you can see, virtually no visible dinos:
Here is the macro tank:
Notice when I zoom in:
There is some macro, some cyano, some turf algae, some GHA, some turf, probably a few strands of Bryopsis in there, unicellular algae that I haven’t looked at under the scope and keyed out, sponges, fan worms, prob lots of pods, prob lots of unicellular heterotrophs, etc
So am I saying ‘Just make a refugium’?
No. A simple refugium with maybe a ball of Chaeto in there is better than doing nothing, but simply adding a macro wasn’t going to solve this problem. Adding a separate tank where all of this algal diversity can battle each other 24/7 is going to solve it. Several types of algae, very little (but not zero) herbivory, and may the best competitor win. It’s managing an ecosystem by including as many of the natural parts of the ecosystem as possible…even ‘pests’ and ‘nuisance algae’.
I haven’t seen noticeable dinos in the display in months.
Water changes: 0
Physical removal: 0
Filter socks/bags: 0
Black-outs: 0
Chemical treatments: 0
Sterilizer: 0
Skimmer: 0
Messing with PO4 and NO3: 0
A lot of things will eat Bryopsis. I had turbo grazers, tuxedo urchins, and an orange shoulder tang. That was light work for that crew. I let the bryopsis grow, harvested big tufts out by hand (ie nutrient export), and added the animals and they wiped the rest out.Bryopsis is the only one I am still struggling with in my tank. I'm not really sure on how to cut it down since nothing really consumes it. Only option seems to be fluconazole, while keeping in mind that completely eliminating something can lead to other issues as well..
This isn’t my first go-round with dinos.From my experience, you can’t or at least shouldn’t lay claim to Dino defeat until you can go a year without seeing them again. They are Stubborn and adaptive.
Clearly they can.They can’t compete.
When you remove all competition by creating a low bio-diversity system (dry rock, bottled bacteria, etc), life is easy for them.Clearly they can.