Oh darn it, I hate when I'm reading an old thread and it just abruptly ends and I have no idea what the outcome was.....@taricha Not even going to pretend to understand but wanted to share some anecdotal evidence...I stopped dosing MB7 and Waste-Away on 7/21 but continued daily silicate dosing. I never got full blown-snotty dinos again but I started to see dinos and bubbles on the sand again after about a week. I've gone back to daily dosing and things are back to progressing in the right direction. All of my snails are cleaning the sand at this point. I run the UV at night and turn it off for the day. And I dose bacteria and silicate in the AM.