Dinos??

[indiana812]

I know it’s nearly Impossible to tell rather or not they are dinos, but I am almost positive it is. I do not have a microscope at the current time.

I am dosing microbacter7 and took all remaining filter products out besides the floss.
Notice in how stringy it is in the back of the trachy.

I spot feed reef roids 1 or 2 times a week, and then feed the clowns ~8 pallets a day. I Hardly ever see pellets drop.
Thoughts?

 

[gentlefish]

You have some areas of sand that are more solid covered. Could be cyanobacter or Dino’s. you will find Dino’s also readily occurring on the front pane as a dusting and with low nitrates and phosphates. If you turkey blast cyanobacter carpets they come off more in pieces. Would you know phosphate and nitrate?
Also think if a UV may help to control future outbreaks.

 

[indiana812]

You have some areas of sand that are more solid covered. Could be cyanobacter or Dino’s. you will find Dino’s also readily occurring on the front pane as a dusting and with low nitrates and phosphates. If you turkey blast cyanobacter carpets they come off more in pieces. Would you know phosphate and nitrate?
Also think if a UV may help to control future outbreaks.

Just tested both, 0 on both phosphate and nitrate. I am going to buy some of the bio brick and throw it in the back 2nd chamber.

 

[gentlefish]

Sorry to hear, that’s typical for Dino’s. long long threat on R2R…. I have been quite successful with dosing nitrates and phosphates + UV.

 

[GnarcoticFiend]

Sorry to hear, that’s typical for Dino’s. long long threat on R2R…. I have been quite successful with dosing nitrates and phosphates + UV.

What exactly do you dose? I’m having the same issue right now- Undetectable nitrates and 0 phosphates. I didn’t mean for it to get that low I was just doing too big of water changes without testing

 

[gentlefish]

Conservative? Take the skimmer cup off, take the sick’s out and feed heavy. Chemically, I make stock solutions and dose as required, though I also ran nitrates over the doser. The phosphate was sold OTC in the pharmacy, the nitrate is eBay.

 

[gentlefish]

Socks …socks an unknown word to auto correct.

 

[indiana812]

I tested my levels (nitrates and phosphates) and they were both at 0. I added 4 of these but in the little bio balls (no longer sold on amazon for some reason).

Everything in the sand started to clear up within a few days and keeps getting better! - However now i have a brown hair"ish" algae on my rocks which wont come off when i use a baster on it. I was told to get a small sea hare to have it clean the rocks.

 

[gentlefish]

Yup the fun of reefing. If it’s not Dino’s is algae/cyanobacter. The latter is so much better though.