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09/04/2015, 12:56 AM | #1701 |
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It looks like diatoms to me.
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09/04/2015, 10:19 AM | #1702 | |
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IMO they are a very good sign that you are winning the battle. |
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09/04/2015, 10:42 AM | #1703 | |
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I feel I am winning the battle even with brown glass. Sometimes I see a little green algae on the glass but it goes away quickly if I skip my NeoPhos dose. I can't seem to keep phosphates in this tank. My corals are doing excellent even when the bottom piles up with detritus. Corals that have gone to complete **** have a little spark of life in them. Should also mention my PH is staying up high even when my ATO reservoir was empty for 3-4 days. (contain kalkwasser) |
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09/04/2015, 12:16 PM | #1704 | |
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Just saw this and had to share. Looks to me like Dinos harbouring Bacteria http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/35761...unk/?p=4956666 |
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09/05/2015, 02:19 AM | #1705 |
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A week after I added new live rock my tiny SPS corals started to grow at full speed. This followed more than half a year of absolute zero growth. I have repeated this three times now so it's a key element on how dinos affect coral health. There has been no visual effect on the dinos or plankton and the usual reef tank parameters have not changed. I don't think anyone has the facts on this so good theories are wanted. |
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I would like to grow my biodiversity. What kind of supplements, pods, and etc.. should I add?
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09/05/2015, 07:33 AM | #1707 | |
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I like Reef cleaners Pods+ http://www.reefcleaners.org/aquarium-store/pods A diverse assortment of crabs and snails as well. |
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09/05/2015, 09:22 AM | #1708 |
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Did one more of those wonderful and elaborate tests of mine.
I placed a square plastic on the sandbed and left it there for couple of days. Yesterday I removed it and today I have a perfect square free of dinos, but edged by dense mat of dinos. |
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Pic? We're the edges buried in the sand or raised?
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09/05/2015, 09:48 AM | #1710 |
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The plastic square was just sitting on top.
I have a pic, but no means to show it right now. |
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just based on description, it sounds like it's flow based. The edge would likely experience slower flow?
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09/05/2015, 10:19 AM | #1712 |
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It's a square 3" by 3" totally free of dinos.
Almost all the dinos left the sandbed yesterday. They could have resettled there today if they wanted, but it has an invisible barrier. It's another piece in the puzzle. If I only had a savant to put them all in place. |
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I am going to try to aiptasia-x the sandbed covered in dinos and see how that goes.
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I did an experiment today, I vacuumed the surface layer of my sand bed into a 5 gal pail and pour the contents of the pail through a 10uM filter sock, squeezed a sample out and put it under the microscope. I found 0 dinos but
I did find a lot of critters in the form of pods, shrimps, etc., very small small in size. I found a dozen or so in a drop of water. I think this is a key to eliminating dinos. I would like others with microscopes to do the same type of sampling of their sand and skimmate and post their results. |
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09/05/2015, 06:06 PM | #1718 | |
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The live rock brought in Symbiodinum dinflagellates desperately needed for coral health and growth. The dinos are not producing any toxins any more. New bacteria brough in with the live rock is suppressing or neutralizing the dino toxins in the water column. From my experience the current growth period will last around 3 months before everything will start to go downhill. |
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Live rock was full of ciliate/bacterial predators that took a while to be poisoned off Live rock had lots of decaying organics that the corals enjoyed Decaying organics plus new bacteria unbalanced the scale from dinos I am surprised the rock from the unicorn tank didn't work..I thought that was an excellent idea. Perhaps the rock has to be a certain percentage? EG 50% new rock, remove old. Certainly you can't do that with fish in the tank. I'm 2 days into a 3 day blackout. Having a huge explosion of dinos, unsure why. I suspect something big and unseen has died. Could be the serpent star. Adding rock is the only thing left to try. STILL have 0 nitrates and phosphates. Pods have been a bust. Phyto isn't doing anything either. Ivy
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I will bet you a Canadian 2-dollar coin that the square will get covered within a day or two. ivy
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You are not late. I tried a little section on a rock first. Thank god you came in time. lol Will update on how that section is doing tomorrow. The dinos are getting out of hand. |
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In order...
Stop chemicals + stop carbon dosing = stop killing their competition Lights off + slow flow high power UV + heavy skim ... Dead dinos + export dead dinos Pods + Phyto + refugium = rebalanced nature Feed more = healthy bacteria & algae reset.
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