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Hi there,
I'm currently trying my hand at beating dinos in my 15gal. Tank has been running about 2 years. I have always had dinos and struggled. This is my first real attempt at dealing with them correctly. I believe they are ostreopsis. I have microscoped them in the past. Their activity seems to match the descriptions with long strands, lots of bubbles, and not minding high flow. Anyway, prior to all my reading I was doing near 80% water changes weekly, along with siphoning the substrate, toothbrushes the rocks, and scraping anything I could. This went on for about 2 months I was dosing neophos daily, about 1ml, with no results on testing for phosphate.
Following the rabbit hole that is information on beating Dinos on r2r I have learned my water change regimen was quite stupid and probably compounding my issues. I don't have many corals as they have never been able to grow out due to the dinos. I made a few changes in the past few days and wanted to make sure they sounded effective and appropriate.
Stopped all water changes.
1-2 day floss changes.
1.5ml neophos
1ml neonitro
1ml microbacter7
2-3ml phytoplankton
I have not seen much of any change in my phosphate or nitrate. I have a nyos test kit but have not been able to obtain a hanna phos kit yet. On my nyos kit I have not been able to notice any color change in the water of the test kits leading me to believe my phosphate is possibly above 0 but below .10 My nitrates have been sitting at or below .1
Since I started all this extra dosing I have not seen much of any reduction in the dyno's. It still covers all my rocks, substrate, and corals. What I have seen is a large increase in cyano. I have tried my best not to mess with anything in the tank but I am concerned that I'm missing something.
As microbacter7 and phyto both are supposed to eat up nitrate and phos, should I be dosing heavier to allow myself to see results on my tests?
I'm currently trying my hand at beating dinos in my 15gal. Tank has been running about 2 years. I have always had dinos and struggled. This is my first real attempt at dealing with them correctly. I believe they are ostreopsis. I have microscoped them in the past. Their activity seems to match the descriptions with long strands, lots of bubbles, and not minding high flow. Anyway, prior to all my reading I was doing near 80% water changes weekly, along with siphoning the substrate, toothbrushes the rocks, and scraping anything I could. This went on for about 2 months I was dosing neophos daily, about 1ml, with no results on testing for phosphate.
Following the rabbit hole that is information on beating Dinos on r2r I have learned my water change regimen was quite stupid and probably compounding my issues. I don't have many corals as they have never been able to grow out due to the dinos. I made a few changes in the past few days and wanted to make sure they sounded effective and appropriate.
Stopped all water changes.
1-2 day floss changes.
1.5ml neophos
1ml neonitro
1ml microbacter7
2-3ml phytoplankton
I have not seen much of any change in my phosphate or nitrate. I have a nyos test kit but have not been able to obtain a hanna phos kit yet. On my nyos kit I have not been able to notice any color change in the water of the test kits leading me to believe my phosphate is possibly above 0 but below .10 My nitrates have been sitting at or below .1
Since I started all this extra dosing I have not seen much of any reduction in the dyno's. It still covers all my rocks, substrate, and corals. What I have seen is a large increase in cyano. I have tried my best not to mess with anything in the tank but I am concerned that I'm missing something.
As microbacter7 and phyto both are supposed to eat up nitrate and phos, should I be dosing heavier to allow myself to see results on my tests?