Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
I am planning to dose NO3. I’m still waiting for my shipment of NaNO3. Should be here tomorrow or Friday. I have been adding frozen meaty food in the meantime to try to spike my Nitrates.Are you planning on dosing NO3 as well since you NO3 is 0?
For me the manual removal along with more flow seem to be working. But the issue I am running into is, if I don't siphon the sand on religious basis, dino seem to come back. But I am trying to do my best with manual removal. Let's see where it lands me. My zoas are still very unhappy and so are my duncan and frogspawn. I think for me it started from the sandbed, but I couldn't be sure. The odd thing is, for last 4-5 weeks I have not seen dino on any rocks. All on the sand, which baffles me. I don't know why it is not spreading. Or is it that all dino on the sandbed are dead and just can't siphon out? I really don't get why it's only on the sand.murder your sandbed with hot tap water.
Post a picture of your tank. I have noticed some of my rocks turned completely white as well when I was doing N-P dosing. There are no dino left on those white spots and when the GHA came, they didn't cover those white spots either. @taricha can tell you better then me, but if you continue with the dosing regiment you will never have dino again once it leaves your tank. I don't remember exactly who it was, but someone purposely reintroduced dino in their tank after dino was eradicate through N&P dosing, however, the newly introduced dino did not survive in the tank. Honestly speaking, I am done with ULNS. I don't think any good can come out of running ULNS. Even if you don't have Dino, ULNS requires lot of additional dosing (which in essence adds N&P) of other chemical to achieve good color and growth. Just my 0.2 centsI am planning to dose NO3. I’m still waiting for my shipment of NaNO3. Should be here tomorrow or Friday. I have been adding frozen meaty food in the meantime to try to spike my Nitrates.
Just as an aside. I had an interesting reaction when I was killing aphasia with Aptasia X. I spread some on the rock that had the rust color. The rock turned white in that location when I turned the pump back on. Maybe just because the light was filtered but I’m up to trying anything right now as before the tank went dark I had rust color at the base of my Walt Disney. So, the war it on.
I was under the impression that they don’t leave. I assumed the theory was they just settle down and stop blooming which creates the toxicity. My theory was this stops when they have phosphates and nitrates to feed vs being purely photosynthetic. I was reading about red tide events that occur in the ocean and that it isn’t completely understood but light changes, temp changes, phosphate spikes that later deplete after being consumed, etc can trigger a bloom. I honestly don’t know. I’m doing the black out assuming they won’t reproduce without the lighting. But the theory is they are now consuming the bacteria in my tank because they don’t have light. I’m going to limit my lighting to my blues and UVs only based on the theory that every LFS I have been in operated under blues as they are no looking to stimulate growth only hold until sold. I’ll turn my T5s back on once I get through this and have my NO3 to 3-5 and PO4 in the .01-.03 range. My plan is to buy Chaeto once I get to 5 ppm NO3.Post a picture of your tank. I have noticed some of my rocks turned completely white as well when I was doing N-P dosing. There are no dino left on those white spots and when the GHA came, they didn't cover those white spots either. @taricha can tell you better then me, but if you continue with the dosing regiment you will never have dino again once it leaves your tank. I don't remember exactly who it was, but someone purposely reintroduced dino in their tank after dino was eradicate through N&P dosing, however, the newly introduced dino did not survive in the tank. Honestly speaking, I am done with ULNS. I don't think any good can come out of running ULNS. Even if you don't have Dino, ULNS requires lot of additional dosing (which in essence adds N&P) of other chemical to achieve good color and growth. Just my 0.2 cents
I just took the plastic off. Lights out knocked them back fairly well. It is amazing how the stand out in this picture. Within the first 2 mins of turning the lights on I could see them turning from a dull grey to rust color. The grayish color on the rock with the chalice are the Dino’s. I’m going to throttle the lights until I see that I’m over stressing the corals. I can’t get my NO3 to move. PO4 is at .03 now.Post a picture of your tank. I have noticed some of my rocks turned completely white as well when I was doing N-P dosing. There are no dino left on those white spots and when the GHA came, they didn't cover those white spots either. @taricha can tell you better then me, but if you continue with the dosing regiment you will never have dino again once it leaves your tank. I don't remember exactly who it was, but someone purposely reintroduced dino in their tank after dino was eradicate through N&P dosing, however, the newly introduced dino did not survive in the tank. Honestly speaking, I am done with ULNS. I don't think any good can come out of running ULNS. Even if you don't have Dino, ULNS requires lot of additional dosing (which in essence adds N&P) of other chemical to achieve good color and growth. Just my 0.2 cents
I think you are on the right track. Siphon some out . Use a net so you ate only catching the dino and drain the water in the sump. No need to do WC.Day 1 with lights on after 3 day black-out. Rust color return but it was definitely knocked back. Hanna reads PO4 at .04. NO3 dosed to 5ppm.
I don't believe for a second my dino is gone. Just because I don't see them does not mean those @@#^^%s are gone. I am willing to bet that they are hiding somewhere. But for now I will take the GHA covered sand bed.It's hard to say – it's stinks to have confounding things happen like that.