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Thanks will do. Should I siphon out the sand through a micron sock and put the water back in?Sounds fine, I'd still wait 7 days or more at 82F. I still had Dino's at the 4 day mark. I'd do the chemiclean during week 2, and keep the temps up. I think both Cyano and Dino's compete for top spot when your nutrients bottom out. When I treated Cyano with chemi-clean, Dino's took their place. If Dino's are dying, you could see Cyano coming back. I would check your nitrate and phosphates and ensure they are not bottomed out.
This really sucks. I was contemplating trying the temperature method. I figure for an organism that been around “likely millions of years” and survived/adapted to its surroundings, this would be too good to be true. I despise dinos. Been battling for months now. Bummer.I'm on day 7. At day 6 (yesterday), they were getting really bad. I siphoned the sand, filtered through a sock, and put the water back in the tank. They are already showing back up again today. Im starting to lose confidence. They seem to be thrieving still. I see absolutely no signs of regression at all.
Beautiful fish.This is the dinos we have
Raised from 79f over 3 days, I am currently on day 7 at 83 degrees F so far no change at all to the dinos.
LPS are more unhappy than before
BTAs are fine
SPS fine
Fish a lot more active and more hungry
Gem tang unhappy but may be due to constant Carbon changes.
Had a large amount of white sponge which has died off maybe coincidence or the temperature increase.
Already run a 85 watt UV
Nitrate holds at 7
Phos at 0.06 approx neither have ever been zero
Initial temperature raise reduced alk update to half, after a few days uptake started to increase again.
PH not changed much at all
Dinos are there before lights up
Max lighting period
I will run for 10 days and see how everything is then, I am blowing off the rocks everyday to remove the dead sponge and any brown dinos settling on the rocks.
So far nothing positive to report. For the people this is working for did yours just disappear or gradually reduce?
I haven’t read your previous information, but I removed my sand when I felt like you do. Then amphidinium went away.I've been battling since January. I keep threatening to shut it down but I just can't make myself do it. I'm just about at the end of ideas though. I may not have a choice but to drain the tank.
Were you able to add sand back and keep dino's at bay. I really do not want a barebottom tank.I haven’t read your previous information, but I removed my sand when I felt like you do. Then amphidinium went away.
Did you put the sand back in at some point or stayed bare?I haven’t read your previous information, but I removed my sand when I felt like you do. Then amphidinium went away.
I have, as well as a 9 day blackout. They still come back after a few days.Have you guys tried cutting your lighting period back ?
I have, as well as a 9 day blackout. They still come back after a few days.
I was siphoning the sand daily, filtering the water through a sock, pumping it through a 25 watt pentair aquatics uv sterilizer, then returning it to the tank. I did that for a while. Sand would stay clear, but as soon as I stopped siphoning daily, they are back. There is just no way I can keep up daily siphoning.