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any will do (IMHO) the point is to add as much "new" life as possible. i used:
indo pacific sea: worms, pods, stars, etc. reef to goods algae barn: pods and phyto i also added a few more fish from the LFS in Silverdale WA (which required more feeding of the fish), that combined with drier skimmate i think produced more "food" and out competed the dinos... it worked for me (and i did try UltraX which didnt do anything for me) |
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08/25/2015, 04:08 PM | #1628 |
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My urchins ate everything when I had dinos. My snails died but my urchins trudged on.
Ancient creatures designed to survive ancient enemies?
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The results are in. After 5 days the dinos are just going on with their daily lives as usual. If fact I've got slightly more of them right now than last 12 months. This means we can't say that recycled skimmate will help with a dino problem. We also can't say it's useless until several others try this out. |
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12 weeks since I considered myself dino free, just finished putting samples of skimmate and sock collectings under the microscope and absolutely 0 dinos to be found, just lots of plankton that I never saw while I had dinos.
Wish I had looked at samples before I had dinos. Bubble algae still disappearing to. |
08/27/2015, 11:34 AM | #1631 |
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Day 3 adding week-old skimmate collected in a jar back to my tank.
Good news: Got here this morning and Whoah! 90% of the cyano is gone! Bad news: big dino outbreak, I see the harder brown circular spots on the glass and some have developed strings since yesterday morning. Hermit crab is ok. Corals ok except for my hammer which sucked all its polyps in and looks very cranky. hypothesis: dinos survive better in a jar than other bacteria? Or they consumed the bacteria. If I'm just re-culturing dinos this won't do much good. Really need to buy a decent microscope. Should also see if I can get a big cup of skimmate from someone who doesn't have dinos. Dang. Ivy
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It further strengthens what we have been saying about plankton and bio diversity. There is no doubt we are going places in this thread. If you could in a single post go through your case. The type of dinos you had, how it affected your tank and what you did to correct the situation. Something short, but enough for others to follow. |
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Whoops, sorry. I should have read back instead of going by memory.
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08/27/2015, 12:23 PM | #1637 |
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Here are two pics of the front of my glass through dirty glass (sorry).
Looks to be some green algae showing up and I think diatoms. |
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Wait til it finds my front glass. |
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08/27/2015, 12:36 PM | #1639 |
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I have dinos and would like to try to dose hydrogen peroxide as I have researched and read that this is one of the biggest ways to get rid of them. Does anyone know the specifics on how much to dose, when to dose, and if it's just regular hydrogen peroxide that they sell at Walmart that I dose?
Before http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2G0f9tpRN3M After http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ENj_qkHpS0I |
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No results with h2o2 here either.
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08/27/2015, 03:03 PM | #1643 |
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08/27/2015, 03:12 PM | #1644 |
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lights out if I recall correctly.
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I have a question that I am very curious to hear a good answer to. My Dino disappear at night much like everyone else. My understanding here is that they go into the water column at night. How do we explain how they always end up in the same place the next morning? I literally have spots on the sand that show no Dino. The spots that are showing disappear at night and look the same (sometimes bigger) the next morning. And yet the spots that were clear the day before are still clear
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Natural habitat and chemical markers would be high on the list. |
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08/27/2015, 05:18 PM | #1649 |
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Care to expand on that? Just really want to learn and understand these vial things
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08/27/2015, 06:48 PM | #1650 |
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I would have agree with DNA, I tried changing the flow but they always found the same spots.
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