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God this hobby can be aggravating lol. I'm just posting to vent so bear with me. Been battling amphidinium dinos for a few months, most recently by fighting with Si to grow some diatoms to compete. Got more than i bargained for with diatioms and a boat load of cyano to boot. Hit the tank with chemiclean and the dinos came back worse with growth on the rocks where as it was just in the sand before (maybe its more cyano idk). Tank looks ugly as hell. Parameters look excellent:
Temp 76*F
N03: 5ppm
Phos: .04ppm
Salt 1.026
pH 8.4
kH: 7.9
Running 15% blues 0% white
Even funnier, is that my corals look AWESOME despite all the sludge growing around them. I'm seeing polyp extension like crazy, great colors, and my zoas are spreading nicely lol. Fish are all happy too. I have two clownfish in QT looking across the room like "You're not moving us in there til its clean right?"
I've done blackouts, Dr. Tims, H2O2, MB7, syphoning, boosted the CUC all to no avail. A small BTA was my only loss. Thinking about dropping the Dino X hammer since I only have LPS and softies. But before that may do a reboot tonight with a 20% water change and syphoning out as much as I can (I know water change is just gonna feed the dinos, but at this point they have all the nutrients they could want anyway so what's the difference? Also gotta get the chemiclean out), follow up with some more MB7 and 3 days with no lights (not a full on blackout), I'll leave the growth I have on the glass, and continue the silica dosing, see where I'm at, pray, and maybe drop the hammer.
I'm also going on vacation in March for 4 days, my in laws will feed, and my buddy who is a reefer is going to check in on the tank for me, but I'd love to get some improvement before then.
ugh….am i just going nuts? Missing anything?
Temp 76*F
N03: 5ppm
Phos: .04ppm
Salt 1.026
pH 8.4
kH: 7.9
Running 15% blues 0% white
Even funnier, is that my corals look AWESOME despite all the sludge growing around them. I'm seeing polyp extension like crazy, great colors, and my zoas are spreading nicely lol. Fish are all happy too. I have two clownfish in QT looking across the room like "You're not moving us in there til its clean right?"
I'm also going on vacation in March for 4 days, my in laws will feed, and my buddy who is a reefer is going to check in on the tank for me, but I'd love to get some improvement before then.
ugh….am i just going nuts? Missing anything?