I am really torn about bleaching my old rock. I have it all in the brute. atleast it is buying me time.
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Thank you for your kind words. I appreciate it.Sorry for having to tear down and start over. I can only imagine. Best of luck on the rebuild and props for sticking with it!
Thank you for sharing your experience. I did not see your comments until this morning. Sorry. It was perfect timing as I was coming here to post about the neomeris. It is sprouting again on one of the rocks I placed in the 40B. I also suspect I am dealing with dino. Although I have not examined anything thru a microscope all the symptoms are there. For some reason I really want to save the rock I had from my aquarium, but my husband wants me to just throw it all awayhaving fought neomeris I started my tank over 2 times because of it the first time I bleached the old rock for a month and it still came back it bores into the rock and will live the only succesfull thing is to get new rock it took over my whole tank it was horrible
The tank looks better already. I will post pictures soon.So this issue is probably not dinos. I just got down to basics and did some water testing. I got to use my new birthday gifts...Woot!Woot! Hanna phosphorous URL checker, and Hanna DKH checker. It was super cool. The science geek in me just loves that kinda stuff.
Ammonia 0
dkh 6.4
phosphorous greater than 200ppb!!!
nitrate 10
pH 7.8 maybe 8 the colors were pretty close...
Wow, no wonder everybody in the tank is cranky. So I ran to my favorite LFS and got some filter floss, and a chemi pure. I placed some GFO, Seachem Matrix, Chemi-Pure in the HOB filter cartridges. I also dosed some Seachem Builder. And I am going to do a water change tonight. I have never had detectable Nitrate or phosphate in any of my DT. So this is new. I guess I owe that to the DSB I also seem to have, I guess.
Looks like he's a keeper, lol! Tank looks great.He sanded the whole thing, in a weekend. Did it once with a DA sander many steps, and a polisher then started over again the next day by hand because he was not happy with the results. 12 levels of sand paper and a polishing with Meguires Plastx.
Looks like he's a keeper, lol! Tank looks great.