Tank is 5 months old now, and after 1.5 months, I started battling Cyano, Ostreopsis, and Chrysophytes all at the same time.
I have Ostreopsis dinos and once I had it supressed a bit from running UV 24/7 and dosing silicates, it completely made the chrysophytes that plagued my rockwork to get really thick and bad. The dinos were still somewhat present, but barely visible and only on the sand a bit, were pretty much gone from the rockwork. I reverted back to 12 hour night UV with my fuge schedule because it was killing (not allowing to reproduce) my pod population.
I turned to Brightwell Razor after hearing lots of anectodal examples and it obliterated my chrysophyte issue. Soon after, my Ostreopsis started coming back and on went the UV to 24/7, although not as effective as when it was with silicate dosing.
So my question is, should I start dosing silicates again? Do I live with chyrsophytes instead? What do the experienced reccommend?
Thanks!
I have Ostreopsis dinos and once I had it supressed a bit from running UV 24/7 and dosing silicates, it completely made the chrysophytes that plagued my rockwork to get really thick and bad. The dinos were still somewhat present, but barely visible and only on the sand a bit, were pretty much gone from the rockwork. I reverted back to 12 hour night UV with my fuge schedule because it was killing (not allowing to reproduce) my pod population.
I turned to Brightwell Razor after hearing lots of anectodal examples and it obliterated my chrysophyte issue. Soon after, my Ostreopsis started coming back and on went the UV to 24/7, although not as effective as when it was with silicate dosing.
So my question is, should I start dosing silicates again? Do I live with chyrsophytes instead? What do the experienced reccommend?
Thanks!