Have anyone tried 72 hours blackbout then one week of light theen 72 hour black out and so on for a month? When I made my blackput it was gone in about 98% and came back realy slow after about two, three weeks so maybe it would help?
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Have anyone tried 72 hours blackbout then one week of light theen 72 hour black out and so on for a month? When I made my blackput it was gone in about 98% and came back realy slow after about two, three weeks so maybe it would help?
It really helps a lot but some dinos will survive and then multiply again so I was thinking of repeating it, if I loose some corals it will be a small cost and save my tank from tire down.As stupid as this sounds, I'm just now doing a 72 hour blackout. I should have tried this first.
I tried. Didn't do anything. Even at 0.003 didn't do much, except half of my fish died... No fish in the tank, at any bleach strength, unless you want to play russian roulette with them. I took the surviving fish out and I'm trying again at 1 ml/10 gallons strength. My dinos are mostly in the sand. I doubt I'll win this battle, unfortunatelyHas anyone tested results of bleach and dinos at a lower strength? i.e. 0.002 / Bleach strength * system volume?
After day 1, I had signs of stress at .003/ Bleach strength * system volume - 10% and have decided to drop my dose down to .0025/Bleach strength * system volume.
Maybe dead, maybe different species of dinos than your original, or maybe diatoms now.Just to add on... while the dinos have reformed on the rocks, they are so far lacking the bubbles that are the defining trait of dinos. Also when i blow them off with a turkey baster they seem powdery instead of stringy. Is this an indicatio of anything?
Thank you. Interesting how often that story comes up. Treatment changes dino species.No such luck im afraid, the bubbles have appeared. Im pretty sure the dinos changed type on me. 2 days after the initial outbreak, all my snails, sea hare and herbivore fish died overnight. I started on dino x and it subsided then returned. After the return i restocked on urchins and snails and those have survived till today. I started with a toxic type and now have a non toxic type.
I agree, @taricha, that would be helpful to do, so that if people can ID their dinos under a scope, they could be better directed to a potentially successful treatment.Thank you. Interesting how often that story comes up. Treatment changes dino species.
If we were more careful about sifting through observations, I think we'd have a good list by now:
X treatment works vs Y dino, but is ineffective against Z dino.
Wishing you success, @Jolanta! We're rooting for you!I started my fist 72 hours blackout today, also still dosing Vibrant and started dosing peroxide few day ago, wish me luck!
Thank you very much, you are so kind and helpfull person! I hope this time I will kill those monstersWishing you success, @Jolanta! We're rooting for you!
Wish you luck, I hope it will work for us!I'm going to do a 2nd blackout and start peroxide tomorrow while continuing Vibrant and nitrate dosing. If this fails too I don't really know what else to do.
@taricha, here are a couple videos I took last night of the zippy round dinos that I've not been able to ID. Any ideas, oh wise one?
Interesting. Never seen these in anyone's tank before...except for mine!
First bloom I found in my tank was amphidinium in some spots, and these in others. See if you think it matches.
10 sec Video of movement...
Google animation moving the focal plane through the dino showing plate/groove structure.
https://goo.gl/photos/zbW8bzZgGh7UPGheA
Best ID I can figure is Coolia monotonis
There's a couple of vids on YouTube of coolia movement/shape that matches pretty well.
Although it doesn't string up as well or gravitate to high flow areas as much as ostreopsis - by structure, toxicity, and family relation... it's considered close to ostreopsis, so I'd treat it as such.