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Thanks for the tips. I'll keep a close eye on PO3 and nitrates.
I may consider another black out too. I'll keep you posted.
Hello, it's time to post an update and continue to pray for a solution. I am starting to doubt that this is an AMPHIDINIUM strain. I will repost pictures of samples. It is the same picture as before but I have confirmed that these are growing on the hair algae that I now have allowed to grow wild. These dinos also love the tips of SPS and ultimately kill them.
I did have issues with dosing nitrates and crashing phosphate as well. This combo certainly killed my sps as well.
In any event I have done multiple 3 day black outs. I manually removed my sand but the concerning bugs are attaching to algea and sps. I also daily add 7 drops of sponge excel to my 100g of water.
My skimmer has been off for 4 weeks now which has helped stabilize my dosing. The following levels have been stable 4 weeks, the gravel is mostly removed with light patches of dinos. Hair algae and sps all have the same dinos.
My 2 xr30 radions now run at 35% (from 60)
Nitrates between 5 and 10ppm (salifert)
Phosphate 0.07ppm (hanna)
I now grow chaeto and sea lettuce at insane rates. When this 1st stated my chaeto turned white and died.
Any tips or advice greatly appreciated