Thanks! Not my first rodeo with tanks (I have 7!) but my first time dealing with dinos unfortunately. I kind of figured I’d get them at some point I was just hoping not this soon! I’ve been reading some of those help threads and I think I’ve got a pretty solid game plan and recovery schedule set.Potentially, you could just wait out things until the dinos exhaust everything available to eat including corals and inverts. Fish should be OK.
Otherwise, you should expect to go from dinos, to cyano, and finally to algae. Just setting your expectations. In the long run algae is not evil. It is natural (in moderation) and should be managed by herbivores and CUC. In new systems it often gets away from folks temporarily as the biome goes through puberty. Totally natural.
First thing tomorrow I’m transferring all my corals into my other tanks, I’m gonna leave the fish to provide nutrients and because it’s be a pain in the butt to net them from my other tanks. There’s only like 3 hermits in there currently and my snails reproduce all the time so I’m not too worried about leaving them in there. Stopping vibrant, adding nutrients, seeing if anybody nearby has a spare uv I can buy/borrow, and checking PO3 and PO4 often (using terrible test kit so not very confident in the accuracy but hopefully it will at least show if these levels are increasing). Also throwing some carbon in there as well as added filtration via socks and floss changed/rinsed daily. After I raise nutrients I think I can expect the dinos to leave in 4 months or less? Does this sound accurate?
I’ve got some seachem vitamin supplement stuff, would that help my situation? I hear that reefroids send phosphate through the roof, would that be helpful?