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11/27/2015, 11:10 AM | #2251 |
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They don't like swings in most any parameter like salinity, nitrates, phosphates, etc. They also may not like higher nutrient levels like nitrates.
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11/27/2015, 01:28 PM | #2252 |
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Any recommendations
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11/27/2015, 07:50 PM | #2253 |
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Anyone ever use cuprisorb for dinoflagellate problem
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11/27/2015, 08:17 PM | #2254 |
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why would copper have a role here?
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That is if we can trust Tritons results which detected no heavy metals with in their limits of detection in my system at the same time I was experiencing the dinos blooming. I'll have a second round of triton test results back again soon at the same time the dinos were in full bloom. So, if they need a very small trace amount under what Triton could detect and if cuprisorb could possibly remove that very small trace amount of what ever heavy metal the dinos consume like iron then you would be fighting a loosing battle. As all saltmixes, including ocean saltwater, and the food you feed has very small trace amounts of those heavy metals. In fact that's a good thing as they are necessary. Even copper is used but only at very small trace amounts. Also, I just started dosing iron about a week ago to help feed my turf scrubber. The past week my dinos have been dying back. If they really wanted Iron they should be getting strong now that I'm dosing it.
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11/27/2015, 10:30 PM | #2257 |
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Sounds like coincidence more than causation on the cuprisorb... IMO
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11/28/2015, 04:42 PM | #2258 |
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use chemiclean first (wonder if the stuff on the sand is cyno), then go with dirty method as described in this thread
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11/29/2015, 08:14 AM | #2259 |
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We agree on that dinos can be brought in by treatments, events and mistakes.
At first glance it seems like we are removing something that suppresses dinos, but what is it? Microfauna, bacteria, plankton, chemical or nutrient balance or something else? In a closed system like our tanks a decimated organism is simply gone for good while in the ocean the currents keep the organic soup mixed. None of us has gone all the way in replacing the microfauna and small changes do only good temporarily. Someone with a small tank is an excellent candidate for this. New live sand and live rock and water from the ocean is what I have in mind. . It is close to half a year since I added 80 pounds of live rock and now I'm seeing a decline in my SPS corals, just like I predicted. I've seen it so many times it was simply inevitable. Only this time it took a bit longer than usual. During this period I saw corals that were long dead come back to live and it only took a week for things to improve from when the rock was added. About half of corals, this condition brings down, escape with a few polylps and a small hope for a recovery. . Since I restarted the tank around two years ago my SPS are dead or doing really poorly while a single head of hammer coral has grown to the size of a basketball. Another strange thing is that Turbinaria and Acroporas take turn in growing well. While one grows the other declines. Peace - DNA |
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I think we also connected the dinos to bacteria.
So, depending on who's winning the bacterial war, that may influence the ability of dinos to gain ground. I don't know if there's a bacterial strain that stacks the odds in our favor. Have we tried nuking with antibacterial (erythromycin) and/or antiseptics (hydrogen peroxide) and then adding a heavy cocktail of bacteria from known sources (Fritz TurboStart 900, Safestart, MicroBacter, Cycle, BioSpira, Colony, Stability, TSS, etc...)? It would certainly take out the red slime, but the unknown consequences (side effects) could (& probably would) wreck the tank. The biggest hit would be to non-nitrifying coral-biome bacteria that wouldn't come from a bottle. If it's do or die...
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I'm trying Cuprisorb as most other methods didn't work. Well, not most - all.
I've also read several threads about Cuprisorb and dinos. It's not directly connected to copper, but rather to iron, or some other unknown that Cuprisorb seems to absorb and get out of the tank. I just started last Thursday in high-flow area in the sump (Seachem says no reactor!) and I can see a small change. Some places like the back wall have visibly less dinos, even some totally clean patches. However, it's still early to say if it's really due to Cuprisorb. From what I've read, it takes at least a month to see significant results - and whether it works at all. |
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If metals were the problem, a macroalgae refugium (chaeto) would have fixed it as long as the chaeto is actively exported.
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Yea, I saw that thread on cuprisorb when researching around. I'm dubious. Plants love iron, sure. But I've had enormous clumps of actively growing chaeto during the worst of the dinos. I've also run a lot of Polyfilter (to take out dino toxins), and it should have depleted any heavy metals in my tank given no water changes. @jason Well, I'd expect a bad attack of anything algae, dinos, cyano, to take everything below the detection limit. @karimwassef I've tried dosing Stability and it removed the cyano very well, but only if I added enough to provoke a small bacterial bloom. I got nervous about the hazy water and stopped. I *think* it reduced the dinos as well but my pics from that time don't show much of a change. You couldn't pay me to deliberately nuke my tank's microbio, that's how people get unkillable dino infestations! You'll never hit all the cysts. hth ivy
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I'm still convinced dinos are an ecosystem problem at the micro level. All the factors you mention are interrelated and our tiny tanks just don't have redundant capacity. So perhaps in your tank you can't keep a particular strain of bacteria going because something is taking it out, while in my tank I lost that little Oxyrrhis guy and the pods couldn't eat enough dinos to stop the takeover. That's why imho various methods work, they're different approaches to the same thing: increasing microbiodiversity. Take out one leg of the stool and I'm going to fall on my behind. If I'm sitting in a dining room chair, take out one leg and I'm still good. So I think it's not all doom and gloom, even though we're missing something, another bacteria/animal may come along to take its place. I wish I lived closer to the sea; it's 2000km to the Pacific, and the reefs out there are cold water. ivy
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Back in the middle of dino paradise again....sheesh! My last outbreak was stopped through aggressive tank maintenance, UV sterilizer and a lot of phyto and pods. This time I have decided to use daily siphoning and hydrogen peroxide. Any input or personal experiences with H2O2 against dinos would be appreciated.
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I tried to do the glass test to determine if I have Dino. I can't find the link anywhere that I found. I remember it saying that if you put a napkin on the top of the glass and add your tank water through it. With ambient lighting in about an hour the Dino will connect to each other. I'm wondering if comparing to the glass test, is the Dino?
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Cool thanks
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DNA- you have sps, right? Why do you do water changes? Have you tried carbon dosing? I want to try carbon dosing , but haven't found a good answer yet for how Dino will behave
Billy- have you tried dirty method plus daily siphoning? Put the hose into you sump in a filter sock. That worked for me - they came back less and less everyday. ... Plus over feeding and pods and phyto. Definitely still need to stay away from water changes - they come back every time. But now I somehow got my nitrates high and unsure what to do about them. Chaeto won't grow- probably cause no po4. Thinking about carbon dosing still |
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Here's the link to his/her post: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=2531708 hth ivy
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[QUOTE=Dfee;24156896] I want to try carbon dosing , but haven't found a good answer yet for how Dino will behave
QUOTE] Why don't you add phosphate? Or add biospira/stability/etc. Carbon dosing is supposed to increase bacterial populations, but may feed the dinos. Adding bacteria directly should skip the middle man so to speak, and still drop nitrate. hth ivy
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