Maybe, possibly, I'm winning the battle.
I started with ostreopsis, bought a UV sterilizer and all that seemed to do was allow amphidinium to take over. The dino's kept getting worse while all I was doing was raising nutrients. After doing more reading, I decided to start dosing H2O2 twice per day, 1ml/gallon. That seemed to stop the growth but really it was just causing it to recede a little and then recover. Finally, I started dosing Microbacter7 at 2ml/gallon once per day. I saw maybe marginal improvement over a week. I also started dosing silicate(sponge power) at 1 drop/gallon once per day. I started blasting my sand to stir up the dino's but that seemed to just make them come back stronger so I stopped. Went away for a weekend, so no dosing, and came back to more dino's then I'd seen in a while. Went back to dosing the H2O2 and MB7 and a week later, the dino's are almost all gone.
One thing I do is run my skimmer after blasting the rocks with a turkey baster. No idea if this really helps but I just cleaned out the darkest, nastiest, batch of skimmer scum that I've ever seen. I consider it likely that many dino's were getting pulled out by the skimmer.
I really saw improvement after dosing the MB7, but find it odd that it really seemed to help after a break in the dosing. Perhaps at that point the bacteria were just starting to get established.
I've been dosing silicate for about 1.5 weeks now with no sign of diatoms, but dino's have definitely receded. I haven't bought a silicate test kit, yet, so no idea what my levels actually are and if it's having any affect.
I have still be running 2 jebao 50w UV's throughout.
Battle is still not over, as I do see small patches form during the lighting period, but the tank hasn't looked this good in a long time, and the growth on the rocks, which I used to have to blow off daily, is now not even noticeable from day to day.
Hopefully in a few more weeks there won't be any signs. I will be dropping the dose of MB7 per the bottle directions and in a week I'll drop down the silicate dosing as well. H2O2 I'll keep dosing until after the dino's are gone and I then run out. Many different changes so it's hard to say if it was one thing in particular that's helped or a combination of all.
I started with ostreopsis, bought a UV sterilizer and all that seemed to do was allow amphidinium to take over. The dino's kept getting worse while all I was doing was raising nutrients. After doing more reading, I decided to start dosing H2O2 twice per day, 1ml/gallon. That seemed to stop the growth but really it was just causing it to recede a little and then recover. Finally, I started dosing Microbacter7 at 2ml/gallon once per day. I saw maybe marginal improvement over a week. I also started dosing silicate(sponge power) at 1 drop/gallon once per day. I started blasting my sand to stir up the dino's but that seemed to just make them come back stronger so I stopped. Went away for a weekend, so no dosing, and came back to more dino's then I'd seen in a while. Went back to dosing the H2O2 and MB7 and a week later, the dino's are almost all gone.
One thing I do is run my skimmer after blasting the rocks with a turkey baster. No idea if this really helps but I just cleaned out the darkest, nastiest, batch of skimmer scum that I've ever seen. I consider it likely that many dino's were getting pulled out by the skimmer.
I really saw improvement after dosing the MB7, but find it odd that it really seemed to help after a break in the dosing. Perhaps at that point the bacteria were just starting to get established.
I've been dosing silicate for about 1.5 weeks now with no sign of diatoms, but dino's have definitely receded. I haven't bought a silicate test kit, yet, so no idea what my levels actually are and if it's having any affect.
I have still be running 2 jebao 50w UV's throughout.
Battle is still not over, as I do see small patches form during the lighting period, but the tank hasn't looked this good in a long time, and the growth on the rocks, which I used to have to blow off daily, is now not even noticeable from day to day.
Hopefully in a few more weeks there won't be any signs. I will be dropping the dose of MB7 per the bottle directions and in a week I'll drop down the silicate dosing as well. H2O2 I'll keep dosing until after the dino's are gone and I then run out. Many different changes so it's hard to say if it was one thing in particular that's helped or a combination of all.