I started a 220g waterbox back in January 2021.
I did a four month cycle with dry rock, ammonia and microbacter. Essentially I follow the WWC/BRS hybrid system EXCEPT for the sand part. Now I have sand blowing everywhere but that’s another discussion.
added tang gang, more fish and some Zoas.
month 10, October, Dino outbreak as soon as I upgraded my lights. I had zero phosphates (resolved) and 5 nitrates. Perfect water otherwise, all parameters always test the same as I use an auto doser.
anywho point being above is that Dino shows up after a long time of doing something wrong. In my case, super low nutrients. I feed like three cubes plus a day now.
My LFS suggested that I try Dino x since all I really have in the tank is fish. So I went for it, and mind you I did a multi pronged attack for this.
first: patience.
3 days lights out, nothing changed.
Started adding Dino X on November 3, 2021.
I under dosed a bit just incase. I used 35ml every other day, as I wanted to make sure I was not overdoing it.
started running blue on my LEDs only and switched my T5s to a 4 hour photoperiod versus 9 hours so I can give other algae a fighting chance to take up nutrients over the Dino’s.
I started changing my filter socks daily.
I started scrubbing the rocks manually, in tank once a week.
At first the Dino’s where so bad that I just grabbed my octo 4, put it at 100% on constant mode and just blew At EVERYTHING. Sand, rocks, other pumps, all of it. It would return the next day, but not completely as the Dino X was in the system at the same time. During this time I was changing filter socks twice a day as they would get clogged quickly.
November 11th - significant reduction in Dino’s. No longer colored, now grey looking and getting picked up by the flow. So much of a difference the wife noticed.
my living room smells like algae. The skimmer is kicking.
I’m going to continue dosing until November 25th, as I think I’m done already but just incase..
In addition I added the new CoralVue in-sump algae turf scrubber and I run it on a reverse photoperiod. This was added five days ago. Nothing is growing in it yet.
so there you have it, I managed to wreck the Dino’s.
please note, and I will follow up on this:
other hobbyists have reported that their Dino’s came back after dosing Dino x, but I have not found a detailed plan of attack like mine in conjunction with the use of Dino X. I will update at the end of December to see if I was truly successful.
Also note that I have no idea what type of Dino’s I have.
hopefully this helps someone!
I did a four month cycle with dry rock, ammonia and microbacter. Essentially I follow the WWC/BRS hybrid system EXCEPT for the sand part. Now I have sand blowing everywhere but that’s another discussion.
added tang gang, more fish and some Zoas.
month 10, October, Dino outbreak as soon as I upgraded my lights. I had zero phosphates (resolved) and 5 nitrates. Perfect water otherwise, all parameters always test the same as I use an auto doser.
anywho point being above is that Dino shows up after a long time of doing something wrong. In my case, super low nutrients. I feed like three cubes plus a day now.
My LFS suggested that I try Dino x since all I really have in the tank is fish. So I went for it, and mind you I did a multi pronged attack for this.
first: patience.
3 days lights out, nothing changed.
Started adding Dino X on November 3, 2021.
I under dosed a bit just incase. I used 35ml every other day, as I wanted to make sure I was not overdoing it.
started running blue on my LEDs only and switched my T5s to a 4 hour photoperiod versus 9 hours so I can give other algae a fighting chance to take up nutrients over the Dino’s.
I started changing my filter socks daily.
I started scrubbing the rocks manually, in tank once a week.
At first the Dino’s where so bad that I just grabbed my octo 4, put it at 100% on constant mode and just blew At EVERYTHING. Sand, rocks, other pumps, all of it. It would return the next day, but not completely as the Dino X was in the system at the same time. During this time I was changing filter socks twice a day as they would get clogged quickly.
November 11th - significant reduction in Dino’s. No longer colored, now grey looking and getting picked up by the flow. So much of a difference the wife noticed.
my living room smells like algae. The skimmer is kicking.
I’m going to continue dosing until November 25th, as I think I’m done already but just incase..
In addition I added the new CoralVue in-sump algae turf scrubber and I run it on a reverse photoperiod. This was added five days ago. Nothing is growing in it yet.
so there you have it, I managed to wreck the Dino’s.
please note, and I will follow up on this:
other hobbyists have reported that their Dino’s came back after dosing Dino x, but I have not found a detailed plan of attack like mine in conjunction with the use of Dino X. I will update at the end of December to see if I was truly successful.
Also note that I have no idea what type of Dino’s I have.
hopefully this helps someone!
