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Sadly I confirmed dinoflagellate outbreak in my 75 gal with microscopy. Since this started my frogspawn has been looking sickly (deflated and one of the heads retracting).
I’m correcting nutrients, dosing silicate and diatom phyto, added pods, and added some biomedia from an established system… it’s one of them that doesn’t respond well to UV.
I have another 3 gal pico tank I could move the frogspawn to but I would want to dip it in some sort of peroxide to avoid adding a ton of dinos to the 3 gal. Given that it’s already stressed I’m afraid that could kill it but I’m afraid of doing nothing as well..
Would you favor leaving it where it’s at and hoping that nutrient correction will improve its health? Or take more aggressive action by dipping and transferring to a new tank? Or maybe something else like a lugols or KFC dip?
This sucks
I’m correcting nutrients, dosing silicate and diatom phyto, added pods, and added some biomedia from an established system… it’s one of them that doesn’t respond well to UV.
I have another 3 gal pico tank I could move the frogspawn to but I would want to dip it in some sort of peroxide to avoid adding a ton of dinos to the 3 gal. Given that it’s already stressed I’m afraid that could kill it but I’m afraid of doing nothing as well..
Would you favor leaving it where it’s at and hoping that nutrient correction will improve its health? Or take more aggressive action by dipping and transferring to a new tank? Or maybe something else like a lugols or KFC dip?
This sucks
