Whelp when it rains it pours as they say. Its been a little while since I've updated this thread..... kind of ticked, embarrassed and frustrated. Long story short...or maybe long. I've heard on soooo many threads to feed more to get your nutrients where they should be.... ive always been against that thought process and here is the big lesson i learned. When you find something that works... stick with it. I've been dosing nitrates in my tank for nearly a year....im pretty dialed in I would say... according to my ICP test... my nitrates are close to 12ppm... Nyos test have me more than 5 but less than 12...according to my eye...which is inline with the ICP test. Rather than buy a cheap dosing pump(ended up doing that anyway)....i decided to feed more to get my phosphate where my corals appear to like them, .06-.1.
I noticed cyano appearing...didnt think much of it at the time, until like over night it exploded. Not looking to go the chemical route, I bought snails (Trochus)..they did a great job, but no matter what I tried the problem only seem to get worse. So a few months later (Which is a week ago on this timeline) I decided to chemiclean the tank to kill the cyano.... It worked! and 2 days after DINO...everywhere. Things have improved bigtime but they have taken a toll on my tank. I've lost a couple of colonies and non of my sea anemones are looking good AT ALL. So that's the rain... here is the pour: last night I received a notification from my apex, my Nyos skimmer was using more watts than normal. Didn't think much of it at the time...although I did notice my PH lower than normal for that time of day. My PH at its lowest is 8.25 and peaks around 8.5,8.52...with the help of a co2 reactor of course...My lights are on from 9-9pm.... its pretty rare for my PH to be 8.3 at 11pm....waaay to low for that time of day. Again didnt think much of it at the time, until this morning.
The notification from the apex never went off! I walked downstairs to find my skimmer making a loud buzzing noise but no bubbles. It appears the needle wheel separated from the impeller assembly...it tore folks. Never saw that ever! Guess what else....no parts available...... so I had to buy another 800.00 skimmer today...and have it overnighted (LFS don't carry high priced items that don't sell fast apparently). You see the skimmer was pulling all of the dead dinos out of my tank. Here is the good news.... I have tried the below regiment with a success with dinos.
1. I performed a water change...with Natural sea water. The thought is adding more diversity.
2. I dose microbater7 (Not sure if this is working or stressing my animals yet)
3. Dose Phyto every other day.
So far every day i see less and less of them...so i do believe this is working...although I'm starting to see cyano come back so....
Before treating with Chemiclean
Cyano out break
Unfortunately i dont have any pictures when the dino was at it's worse...it didnt last more than a day or so.
However everywhere you see cyano was dino!
This was a couple days ago
This was today
Better but clearly my corals and anemones are bothered. Im in the middle of another water change with NSW so we will see what happens. FYI i know it wasnt lack of nutrients that caused dino, but rather the rapid death of the cyano that left the opening. Im hoping to close this chapter very soon.....
Thanks for reading.
I noticed cyano appearing...didnt think much of it at the time, until like over night it exploded. Not looking to go the chemical route, I bought snails (Trochus)..they did a great job, but no matter what I tried the problem only seem to get worse. So a few months later (Which is a week ago on this timeline) I decided to chemiclean the tank to kill the cyano.... It worked! and 2 days after DINO...everywhere. Things have improved bigtime but they have taken a toll on my tank. I've lost a couple of colonies and non of my sea anemones are looking good AT ALL. So that's the rain... here is the pour: last night I received a notification from my apex, my Nyos skimmer was using more watts than normal. Didn't think much of it at the time...although I did notice my PH lower than normal for that time of day. My PH at its lowest is 8.25 and peaks around 8.5,8.52...with the help of a co2 reactor of course...My lights are on from 9-9pm.... its pretty rare for my PH to be 8.3 at 11pm....waaay to low for that time of day. Again didnt think much of it at the time, until this morning.
The notification from the apex never went off! I walked downstairs to find my skimmer making a loud buzzing noise but no bubbles. It appears the needle wheel separated from the impeller assembly...it tore folks. Never saw that ever! Guess what else....no parts available...... so I had to buy another 800.00 skimmer today...and have it overnighted (LFS don't carry high priced items that don't sell fast apparently). You see the skimmer was pulling all of the dead dinos out of my tank. Here is the good news.... I have tried the below regiment with a success with dinos.
1. I performed a water change...with Natural sea water. The thought is adding more diversity.
2. I dose microbater7 (Not sure if this is working or stressing my animals yet)
3. Dose Phyto every other day.
So far every day i see less and less of them...so i do believe this is working...although I'm starting to see cyano come back so....
Before treating with Chemiclean
Cyano out break
Unfortunately i dont have any pictures when the dino was at it's worse...it didnt last more than a day or so.
However everywhere you see cyano was dino!
This was a couple days ago
This was today
Better but clearly my corals and anemones are bothered. Im in the middle of another water change with NSW so we will see what happens. FYI i know it wasnt lack of nutrients that caused dino, but rather the rapid death of the cyano that left the opening. Im hoping to close this chapter very soon.....
Thanks for reading.