Is this a Dino? Only saw a few like this.
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Sure looks like it! Don't worry, everyone has them in their systems. You can't keep them out.Is this a Dino? Only saw a few like this.
Sure looks like it! Don't worry, everyone has them in their systems. You can't keep them out.
I can see the strings of cyano in your photo's but can't make them out well enough to guess as to what kind they are.
I've never seen a fish eat dino's but that's not to say they can't. It is common for fish to eat cyano.Will fish eat dino's? I added a yellow-eye kole and potter's angel from QT yesterday and today respectively and the dino's on the back glass are nearly gone and I see them pecking at it frequently. Talk about a blessing if true! I don't have much, so anything that pecks away at it might be enough to drive it back into obscurity.
As to the Seachem Flourish. It showed up empty . Lid was off and seal punctured. So, Amazon is sending another. In any case, things are looking better today, especially with more fish!
So now it is the dino's that are causing the problems?Well, things seemed better for a week or two, and then it looked like cyano coming back on the sand and rocks. Dosed chemistry-clean at 1.5 times dosage, and nothing has changed. Will be taking a sample shortly to investigate but am thinking cleaning out the cyano paved the way for the light Dino's I may have had to explode. That and my nitrate dropped down to 5-10 and phosphate to .05. I had not checked parameters in 2-3 weeks because of the holidays, getting busy, and just flat out forgetting. The drop was despite me reducing my fuge lighting period by half and feeding significantly more. Joy.
This time it's covering corals and killing them. Is there anything I can dip corals in and move them to my 60 cube to save them? I turned off the lights in the display in the hopes of just cutting it back, seemingly without much success though the sand was always covered lighter in the morning and heavier in the evenings.
I haven't done the H2O2 thing in a long time, but my skunk cleaner shrimp showed no reaction to it when I did do it.Believe so. Hope to confirm this afternoon. I'd read about H2O2. Thought I read cleaner shrimps were pretty sensitive to it but that may have been a couple of years ago. As to the Nickel and Vanadium, thankfully I just had a Triton test done and both of those are extremely low at 5 and 1.2 respectively. Good advice on starting low and slow!
Very good to know. Thanks again for taking the time to reply.I haven't done the H2O2 thing in a long time, but my skunk cleaner shrimp showed no reaction to it when I did do it.
Have you tried dosing live phytoplankton? And do you have a healthy pod population?So, this looks like Ostreopsis right? From reading, it appears people have good luck using UV? Kind of sucks, UV for ~300 total gallons ain't cheap lol! My wife is going to love me when I say I can get rid of this ugly brown stuff for the low, low price of $725 per BRS lol! Hmm, there is a Jebao for $130 on Amazon, just haven't had the best luck with their products in the past. Not the worst luck either though so I give them that.
Have you tried dosing live phytoplankton? And do you have a healthy pod population?
Don't know what kind of corals you have in your tank (if phosphates would bug them), but I tried everything for my dinos and never got rid of them until I upped my phosphates closer to .25.