I have dealt with dino/diatom for 3 months in my SPS tank of 2 years old, started with cyno. I have tried every product available out there to stop it as it has been killing my SPS.
Here is the sequence of the events:
· Dosed KZ coral snow
· Treated with Chemiclean red slime remover
· Dosed KZ A-balance + cynoclean
cyno gone but huge bloom of diatom and dino so I have
· Run GFO, dosed NOPOX, run chem clean blue and activated carbon to lower nitrate and phosphate.
· done huge water change
· Dosed Hydrogen peroxide
· Dosed bacteria products by KZ and macrobactor7
· Dosed Vibrant aquarium cleaner
None of these works over the past 3 months. As a matter of fact, dino has become stronger and started killing my SPS aggressively. My nitrate and phosphate has been either 0 or close to 0 and I know huge water change would only make it worse. Since I have nothing to lose and run out of patience I decided to raise nitrate today to kill dino so I dosed these all together:
Reef Roids
oyster fest
phyto fest
sponge power
amino acid
NeoNitro
shut down skimmer
So far my SPS is very happy! Dino is looking weak. Let's see how long it takes to kill dino or if this route works at all.
Here is the sequence of the events:
· Dosed KZ coral snow
· Treated with Chemiclean red slime remover
· Dosed KZ A-balance + cynoclean
cyno gone but huge bloom of diatom and dino so I have
· Run GFO, dosed NOPOX, run chem clean blue and activated carbon to lower nitrate and phosphate.
· done huge water change
· Dosed Hydrogen peroxide
· Dosed bacteria products by KZ and macrobactor7
· Dosed Vibrant aquarium cleaner
None of these works over the past 3 months. As a matter of fact, dino has become stronger and started killing my SPS aggressively. My nitrate and phosphate has been either 0 or close to 0 and I know huge water change would only make it worse. Since I have nothing to lose and run out of patience I decided to raise nitrate today to kill dino so I dosed these all together:
Reef Roids
oyster fest
phyto fest
sponge power
amino acid
NeoNitro
shut down skimmer
So far my SPS is very happy! Dino is looking weak. Let's see how long it takes to kill dino or if this route works at all.