Dino ID + Treatment

[Poseidon03]

Good info thanks! I'm not sure this is uglies (see post above). But I will absolutely be dosing Silicates. I have a bottle of "Sponge Excel" on the way. The H2O2 dosing sounds really interesting, I'll look into that.

Not going to dose carbon again... The crazy thing, I was only dosing .4ml vodka for a few days, just to see how it affected the system.

What made you want to carbon dose (where were your nitrates and phosphates at before dosing). I wouldn't complete base it off of carbon dosing. I have been using bactobalance religiously for years and only time I got dinos was from lowering too fast or bottoming out when I was not using it.

 

[Mas0n]

Good info thanks! I'm not sure this is uglies (see post above). But I will absolutely be dosing Silicates. I have a bottle of "Sponge Excel" on the way. The H2O2 dosing sounds really interesting, I'll look into that.

Not going to dose carbon again... The crazy thing, I was only dosing .4ml vodka for a few days, just to see how it affected the system.

What made you want to carbon dose (where were your nitrates and phosphates at before dosing). I wouldn't complete base it off of carbon dosing. I have been using bactobalance religiously for years and only time I got dinos was from lowering too fast or bottoming out when I was not using it.

Right about 36 ppm. Nothing extreme but wanted to manage them before they got crazy.

The carbon dosing brought them down to 28~

 

[mcarroll]

I also got this really cool video of an Amoeba(?) eating a dino!

Solid evidence this is not really a dino bloom in the traditional sense (ie toxic tank wrecker).

Seems to me that your system is integrating them.