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09/19/2015, 12:30 PM | #1851 |
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I'm about to throw a rock through my tank.
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09/19/2015, 12:32 PM | #1852 | |
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Where did you get the plankton? |
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09/19/2015, 12:46 PM | #1853 |
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Does anyone have any microscope vids of copepods actually eating dinoflagellates? And do the copepods survive the meal? Or do they die like most inverts?
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09/19/2015, 01:18 PM | #1854 |
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Here's a pic of my Jedi mind trick starting to explode in growth
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I have the clear-white Amphiscolops flatworms. They are on the dino patches, but I'm not totally sure whether they're eating dinos, or the pods. They have a strange foldy behaviour that looks predatory. Their population is steady at a 'couple'. It would be seriously amusing if one of the plagues of the reef world turns out to eat dinos! hth Ivy
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09/19/2015, 02:34 PM | #1857 |
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I didn't get the plankton, I made it.
I have a large refugium with stacks of sand for denitrification and a chaeto jungle for phosphate uptake and pods to thrive in. I bought about 10,000 pods from reefs2go. I also got 200 glass shrimp and 50 peppermints. The plankton is the byproduct of their feverish mating and the phyto I add. I have a few other tricks like a nighttime surge that moves the refugium only (since its on a reverse cycle). That flushes the babies up into the DT. This population exists in spite of still running my UV at night. This is because the dinos remain in the water column and float from the DT to the refugium. The slow flow back up to the DT kills some of the plankton, but most will stay in the DT. The dinos will stay in the column and be exposed repeatedly to UV.
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09/19/2015, 02:36 PM | #1858 |
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09/20/2015, 07:36 AM | #1859 |
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Julian Sprung talking about his close encounter with palytoxin.
https://youtu.be/sgolj7laZQY?t=844 I added a tang a few years back that reacted like his Copperband did. At that time I blamed cyanide fish catching, but now there is another possibility. |
09/20/2015, 08:34 AM | #1860 |
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I have green hair algae and would like to experiment on the use of it in my reef tank to outcome tell the dinos.
Questions: 1. What's the best way to put it in my tank and have it controlled? Or will it just start growing everywhere? 2. Could green hair algae kill corals? 3. How would you put it in your tank? |
09/20/2015, 09:42 AM | #1861 |
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I wonder if anyone with a turf algae scrubber has dinos??
That would be an interesting datapoint.
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09/20/2015, 10:53 AM | #1863 |
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09/20/2015, 11:10 AM | #1864 |
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Actually, there are small self-enclosed boxes that can do this. It may add 15gals of water
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09/20/2015, 01:22 PM | #1865 | |
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@Billy I hear you on the rock. It's so frustrating when you are being careful and doing everything 'right' and something like this happens. Having a box of water in the living room that kills everything you put in it is not a relaxing experience. About the hair algae, stick a rock in. It is unlikely to kill corals unless it's blocking out their light. Actually I doubt it will even grow in your tank unless you get your nitrates and phosphates up. hth Ivy
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09/20/2015, 04:04 PM | #1866 |
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Are dinos the reason why my gonipora and acans are closed
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09/20/2015, 04:26 PM | #1867 |
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My acans were craps when I had dinos. They've improved a lot
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09/20/2015, 04:27 PM | #1868 |
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Well I'll chalk that up as normal for now lol. and I just installed a new sexy sump too bummer. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1442788044.617837.jpg
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09/20/2015, 05:11 PM | #1869 |
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dinos covered almost every coral in my tank ..had to keep blowing this stuff off...****ed off my zoas and gorgonians too....
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09/20/2015, 05:29 PM | #1870 | |
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hth Ivy
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09/20/2015, 05:48 PM | #1871 |
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So no one battling dinos has a turf scrubber at the time, right?
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09/21/2015, 09:56 AM | #1872 |
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No water changes
Reduced feeding Reduced lighting Siphoning out top layer of sandbed. Dinos get worse... the hell? |
09/21/2015, 09:59 AM | #1873 |
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More light
More food No skimmer No gfo Getting better (Just go the sump yesterday. Dinos been there since May) |
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:-) So what about running Carbon? Any feedback that makes Dinos worse? After months of the 'dirty tank' method I'd like to run some carbon to see if I can clear up the water.
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