Wish me luck going to war with Small Cell Dino’s. After going through 40 pages of this thread. I’m taking the following approach on my nano 1 1/2 old tank.
I let my nitrates bottom out while having high phos. being inexperienced half a year ago I didn’t know having 0 nitrate could cause this. As well as having a micro rock and dry sand. I’ve always used mb7 for my bacteria even when I started the tank. I guess it wasn’t diverse enough starting out with dry even after all this time dosing it
What I’ve done so far in my battle over the last month. Not much progress
-I’ve been dosing MB7 on the daily
-no more water changes
-stopped stirring sans and blowing rocks (it looks terrible)
- dose Neo Nitro every day (for some reason it is being consumed very quickly probably from the bacteria I’m adding. keeping it around 10-20)
Phos .1 and Nitates are around 15 at the moment
My next approach
-dose SpongeExcell to try to cause a diatom bloom. Looks to me that people have the most success with this method.
-Use AF source mud to add biodiversity in the tank
-Continue doing everything I’ve been doing keeping things stable and adding MB7
- I don’t have much of a clean up crew anymore because they all died from the toxins of the Dino’s. So I don’t plan on replacing them until I beat this
-Giving that UV sweeper a shot if it even helps a little bit knocking down the Dino’s and giving the diatoms the upper hand. It’s worth trying bringing the Uv to the sandbed since small cell Amphidinium aren’t suspended in the water column much
- I was going to manual remove using a 5 micron sock but I’m thinking the sweeper might have more success without disturbing the bacteria under the surface
Hopefully doing this for however long I’ll have a success story like some of the guys in this thread
