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I still believe the answer is to grow algae and feed it with enoug phosphate and nitrates to grab hold.
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At least some people have been successful. Sigh! Others lose their tanks.
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03/20/2017, 01:24 PM | #4130 |
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I see dinos as an evolutionary branch that's contrary to the way healthy reefs operate today with algae as the natural scrubbers of waste.
So.. a dino infested tank has basically been bombed into the "stone age" and need to go back and change direction from the ground up. It starts with welcoming and cultivating algae as the normal base of a healthy reef ecosystem... The good news is that hair algae is actually a capable contender when it gets the right food. Maybe adding iron to bolster that ecological path win would accelerate things? Once algae starts to take hold, it's a matter of time.
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Will keep the thread updated as the bloom occurs. Dosing aminos, phyto, or any essential elements also appears to be like wildfire as the next day the amount of dinos have doubled! |
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actually.. try this.. stop dosing aminos and phyto or any essential elements...
you're trying to grow a garden before introducing higher level life. Feed like you're cycling the tank.. if you have fish, feed them. The only thing to maintain in addition to normal fish food is alk and calcium.
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What karim says...
Green is the enemy of Brown* *Now, it takes a long time, but it's the only equilibrium I know how to create that keeps dinos away. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk |
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I had to test daily and dose po4/no3 to get the algae started. Overfeeding by itself didn't do it for me. I was dumping an uncomfortable amount of food in the tank and it seemed to just fuel the Dino's, along with levels remaining undetectable. Each tank is different though, each with a missing Link causing a pro dino environment Imo.
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03/21/2017, 09:23 AM | #4136 |
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Good point. The infestation starts because of a unique chemical imbalance (usually driven by our own virulent attempts to eradicate algae ).
In my case, I use Lanthanum to eliminate phosphates. For others, it's overindulging carbon dosing eliminating nitrates... point is we went too far in our zealous endeavors and now we need to reset. To right the ship, we need to know which chemical is missing that algae needs & feed it. I went so far as to consider adding Miracle Grow right down to looking at the toxicity of the metals in it. Maybe that's too much Today, I'm proud of my massive waste collecting sediment filter and algae scrubber tank: And I even keep track of my CO2 to make sure my precious green garden is satisfied without robbing carbonates from my SPS: and just to stay in balance, I don't even throw my algae away! I feed it back to my DT fish: Like the Irish guy on the Scott's commercial says: "Feed your lawn! FEED it!"
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Some people believe that when you have a clean tank and rocks, any excess nutrients will get sucked into the rocks. That is if you don't have any other inorganic filtration. I think that might be what's going on. It would take a while for the rocks to reach saturated levels in order for them to leak back enough nutrients into the water to grow algae on the rocks.
What do you guys think? I just feel like there is no way dinos could be eating all these excess nutrients. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk |
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I think that's a myth. Rocks are sources of nutrients, not sinks. That's because diffusion inside rock (even porous rock) is so slow that it doesn't really matter. Now sand, on the other hand, has significant impact IMO.
The exception in rock would be if there is substantial surface growth like sponges, tunicates, worms, pods, starfish, etc... those could be absorbing waste and food if the rock is established. But new rock or land based rock wouldn't be much of a sink to nutrients. Much greater likelihood to leaching out instead. The sand needs agitation to be healthy & that's usually best performed by worms (again IMO). If the sand bed fauna dies and the process of nutrient uptake diminishes, it could likewise become a source of waste. If that waste stays trapped very close to the sand surface, that zone may not be conducive to algal growth. Algae likes high flow high light. Dinos, in contrast, don't need flow and can thrive at low light. So a dead sandbed could create a local food supply that feeds dinos before the nutrients can get up to the rocks where algae can prosper. So I would add "flow" to the remedy above. Keep the nutrients suspended up where algae can have at it.
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It's well known and studied how much carbon, phosphorous, etc are absorbed ("sink") by calcium carbonate rock or substrate. Not a myth.
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For reference, my sediment filter is fed by a circulating flow from two Jebao 15000s. One in the aux sump puming up and one in the tank itself creating a massive loop. That means that I have nearly 6000 gal/hr in a circulating vortex in a 55gal tub that's 6" below 500W of a distributed LED plate. Algae (and unfortunately Xenia) love it.
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It's an equilibrium thing. So, can't say it will or will not release or attract anything right away.
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Is what i have dino? What can i do to treat it that will not hurt my BTAs? Thanks in Advance!
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I sure if you were to ask Santa Monica he would have 5 or 6 scholarly articles on this subject.
But I think it's also proven with the scrubber only users out there. What happens is people don't change their CFL light bulbs every 3 months. Because it's still growing green and there is no algae in the tank everything seems fine. But really the scrubber is way under powered and some or most of the nutreints are being sucked into the rocks. It's not noticeable until it reaches saturation and dt algae blooms. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk |
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what is really difficult for me to understand is I am dumping quite a food in the tank, skimmer is off, and dinos are everywhere - yet my Chaeto starts turning white and dies on me....I use to double the size of cheato in a couple weeks no problem....how can I get the chaeto or other algae to grow? Should I cut my display lights down to a couple hours a day? I still have a few sps holding on, so don't want to get to crazy, but I want to give chaeto and other algaes a chance to compete....fuge is currently lit 24/7
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Well it might be a situation similar to a scrubber that's not properly built. That is that it's not doing much filtering. I think the dinos, rock and sand are eating up the nutrients and your Chaeto is dying. It's being over powered by light compared to the amount of nutrients it's receiving.
Try to increace your flow around the chaeto. This will deliver more nutreints to it. Also turn down the number of hours the fuge light is on. This might help. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk |
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I agree that the dinoflagellates might be outcompeting the Chaetomorpha for nutrients. The dinoflagellates might be producing a toxin that affect the alga, as well. It's hard to be sure, but problems like that are common. You might consider trying fresh carbon to see whether that helps, but that often seems to be a losing battle.
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if it's well known and studied, post the link or references. Diffusion is very slow and doesn't go very deep because the water doesn't go deep. There's no transport mechanism deeper than the surface few mms.
I make my own rocks. So, to promote diffusion through the rock and into a denitrification zone, I suggested a sponge center core within a thin rock shell... uncle objected to the fundamentals: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...ight=diffusion
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Mmm.... Had an idea for an experiment.
During phase when we are heavy feeding, it would be nice to know what dinos are actually good at uptaking and removing from our water. Take a couple hundred mL or so of dinos + water. Microfilter out a few mL with no dinos, and N+P test the water. Then lyse or liquify the dino cells somehow (peroxide? FW? Freeze/thaw? boil?) and N+P test the dino soup. Or better yet, a side by side Triton test for water with dinos filtered out, vs dino soup water. Would love to know what elements (if any) dinos can actually deprive our tank of. Tons of experiments on dino composition, but none under our tank conditions while dirty method. |
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