DOSING NITRATE
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I can’t for sure say that if ridded me of dinos as I did multiple things to get rid of them. They definitely were less after I upped my nutrients but once I added a uv sterilizer they cleared up in about 3 days.
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I done a 3 day blackout and they completely disappeared and i added a uv steriliser the next day. 1 week later the started showing up again. Think the uv is keeping the numbers down but they are still there.
Ordered potassium nitrate to try that rout.
I done a 3 day blackout and they completely disappeared and i added a uv steriliser the next day. 1 week later the started showing up again. Think the uv is keeping the numbers down but they are still there.
Ordered potassium nitrate to try that rout.
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Just doing research on potassium nitrate if you add sugar to it ,it becomes rocket fuel..so people that doses sugar shouldn’t use it and smoke next to aquarium.lol.I have same probless bare bottom tank been set up since sept.2019 turned light on Jan.1 2020 .I started dosing nitrate algae bloom should’ve put light on since beginning. But BRS stayed to keep them off when starting a new tank less algae yea right.not Bare bottom, nitrates at 2.5 phosphates at 0.wanted no fish tank just sps corals. It is possible but just more money to buy dosing chemicals to keep in check.We will figure it out 1 day first bare bottom tank ,we will,see In next few months.
I’ve tried a blackout and dosing H2O2 before. It works temporarily. I recall seeing a post recently that said raising the temp to 82 degrees will take care of them. My exact regimen was raising my NO3 and po4 , removing most of my cuc, letting algae take over, stop water changes, and using uv. I never changed my lighting schedule/intensity.Once Dinos gone for over 2 weeks I started weaning off the uv. I kept me sea hare in the tank because I noticed it actually ate the dead or dying dinos. Plus it ate the new algae that was growing.
Mine started when i did a large water change and when it came to switch the equipment back on I accidentally switched on my rowaphos reactor which had been sitting dormant with water in for a couple of weeks. A couple of days later i did an icp test which told me the iron in my tank had gone from 0.1 (tritons recommendation) to 5.3!
There was also a very small but traceable amount of copper. I strongly belive it was the iron which cause the dinos. Since then i have lowered iron to 1 which is still 10x the recommended amount but dinos have dramatically reduced.
Maybe you could try testing iron to see if that is maybe the culprit.
I had explosive algae growth in my refugium when iron spiked which may explain the algae in your display.
Also i may have to invest in a sea hare to help out, do they eat from sand bed too?
There was also a very small but traceable amount of copper. I strongly belive it was the iron which cause the dinos. Since then i have lowered iron to 1 which is still 10x the recommended amount but dinos have dramatically reduced.
Maybe you could try testing iron to see if that is maybe the culprit.
I had explosive algae growth in my refugium when iron spiked which may explain the algae in your display.
Also i may have to invest in a sea hare to help out, do they eat from sand bed too?
Just a quick update.
Raised nitrate to 5ppm using potassium nitrate and it stopped the dinos in their track. They were still visible at first but i kept stirring them up every other day and after 1 week they are gone.
Raised nitrate to 5ppm using potassium nitrate and it stopped the dinos in their track. They were still visible at first but i kept stirring them up every other day and after 1 week they are gone.
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