Long story short.
I was about to be extremely busy so I increased my skimmers run time, incorrectly. I shut off the timer and let it run full bore for a few weeks. The algae I welcome to grow on my glass stopped growing and ultimately vanished. My white substrate became new looking and before I realized it, Dino’s. I had stripped my tank clean.
I started over feeding and was dosing perixide 1mm/gal/day. Half broadcast in the evening at lights out. And the other half diluted with tank water .5 ml h2o2 : 10 ml tank water. Then spot treated the worst with all the pumps off and let that sit for about 5 minutes. Also did physical removal and the 3 day black out with this regimen going. It wasn’t working. Maybe keeping the dinos at bay. But that’s it.
2 days ago I started doing the .5 h2o2 broadcast. But instead of the peroxide dilution spot treatment, I gave my daily dose of phyto as a spot treatment to the most effected areas, injected into the substrate with the syringe.
the dinos aren’t coming back. Is my head deceiving me? Is phyto plankton eating or taking it out dinos?
I was about to be extremely busy so I increased my skimmers run time, incorrectly. I shut off the timer and let it run full bore for a few weeks. The algae I welcome to grow on my glass stopped growing and ultimately vanished. My white substrate became new looking and before I realized it, Dino’s. I had stripped my tank clean.
I started over feeding and was dosing perixide 1mm/gal/day. Half broadcast in the evening at lights out. And the other half diluted with tank water .5 ml h2o2 : 10 ml tank water. Then spot treated the worst with all the pumps off and let that sit for about 5 minutes. Also did physical removal and the 3 day black out with this regimen going. It wasn’t working. Maybe keeping the dinos at bay. But that’s it.
2 days ago I started doing the .5 h2o2 broadcast. But instead of the peroxide dilution spot treatment, I gave my daily dose of phyto as a spot treatment to the most effected areas, injected into the substrate with the syringe.
the dinos aren’t coming back. Is my head deceiving me? Is phyto plankton eating or taking it out dinos?
