I started battling dinos a few months ago after overdoing carbon dosing. Knocked it way back with good bacteria dosing, but it has been slowly creeping back, and is now pretty noticeable again. I had ostreopsis before, but haven't double checked yet to see if that's the same kind I have now. Does behave the same though. I have also been having a good bit of GHA growing in my tank, and a cyano problem all at the same time. I've been siphoning and manually removing all that I can every few days for a couple of weeks, but don't seem to be getting anywhere. I'm not sure what the best plan would be to try to get past all three of these issues or at least not sure what order I should approach them.
Tank background:
150 gallon display with 125 gallon sump.
40 gallon fuge section in sump with cheto
display is a mixed reef
Only have 2 urchins as CUC now as I have a porcupine puffer and have been afraid to add CUC. I had tried adding a few snails and the puffer seemed to ignore them, but they didn't seem to do much in the tank and dies within a week or two. Not sure why.
Have a jebao 38W uv in the sump. 24/7
I've been considering adding a seahare for the GHA, but again worried about the puffer. Would it hurt the puffer or rest of the tank if I got one and the puffer nipped at or ate the seahare?
I am on a fairly strict reefing budget at the moment due to a baby on the way, so hoping to find a decent cost effective solution that I can implement now. If the solution is pricy, it will have to wait and I'll have to keep pulling my hair out trying to manually remove for a while untill I can afford to buy anything pricey.
Tank background:
150 gallon display with 125 gallon sump.
40 gallon fuge section in sump with cheto
display is a mixed reef
Only have 2 urchins as CUC now as I have a porcupine puffer and have been afraid to add CUC. I had tried adding a few snails and the puffer seemed to ignore them, but they didn't seem to do much in the tank and dies within a week or two. Not sure why.
Have a jebao 38W uv in the sump. 24/7
I've been considering adding a seahare for the GHA, but again worried about the puffer. Would it hurt the puffer or rest of the tank if I got one and the puffer nipped at or ate the seahare?
I am on a fairly strict reefing budget at the moment due to a baby on the way, so hoping to find a decent cost effective solution that I can implement now. If the solution is pricy, it will have to wait and I'll have to keep pulling my hair out trying to manually remove for a while untill I can afford to buy anything pricey.