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Are you fighting dinos by filtering?
Well, they are showing as dinos yet. But two years ago I had osteoporosis dinos, almost lost my tank, but thanks to the info on this forum, and a lot of perseverance, the tank survived! I just noticed some trouble spots in the sand, and then my nitrates started reading zero, and something was just not quite right. So, I started straining out the spots in the sand, added carbon to fight any toxins preemptively, took my biopellet reactor offline to raise the nitrates and I think that will head it off. There are always dinos in a tank, just don't want them to take over!Are you fighting dinos by filtering?
I have a 40 gallon breeder tank, with a 10 gallon sump. Are you asking why I put a reef in that size tank?is it true you have mid size tank, a 29 or 45 gallon
Gotcha. I won't be doing that with my tank, but I appreciate the advice!no, it's because there's a special way to battle dinos in that size tank that you couldn't do in a larger tank/rip cleaning
to take apart the reef + wash it out the right way, like we do during tank transfer jobs, and reassemble it via skip cycle ordering with zero invasion in place is a very powerful way of fighting dinos.
what most people do is opposite, and you can see from the 800 page dinos thread in the nuisance algae forum there isn't a very high cure rate at all using the normal methods.
rip cleaning is for nano reefs, its a forceful cleaning method that kicks out invasions vs coaxes them out. large tankers can't do it/too much work. nano tankers can do it in about 5 hours. we have many hundreds of examples of them on the site used to fix various tank ills