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Yes, my nitrate and phos read 0. Thought I was close to winning when I saw hair algae on rocks. Maybe my gha suggests I have mainly diatoms in those rusty patches?
Found what he was talking about. It is a diatom filter. Filled with diatomaceous earth . RC thread talking about it but no mention of Dino's: POLL Diatom Filters using Diatomaceous Earth |
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Hmmmm, a diatomaceous filter running in the dark as the main filter with high in-tank flow for several days should scrub the water pretty aggressively. Has anyone tried this?
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Where in Chicago are you getting pods? I've just been getting em online at various places. Would be awesome to get some local. |
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Stopped by old town aquarium for the first time. They had one of those copepod and phyto culture tanks going
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Is it true that dinoflagellates dies in fresh water? If so, I will be siphoning out my top layer of sand into a bucket with ro/di to rinse. Then re add to tank. Is this okay? Or nah?
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The dinoflagellates should die if exposed long enough to fresh water. I don't know what the time limit might be, though, and I'd expect a few to survive here and there. Rinsing the sand might remove some detritus. I'd be tempted, though, to soak the sand in RO/DI with a powerhead and check the phosphate level after twelve hours or so, to see whether the sand is leaching a significant amount of phosphate.
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I just did a water change. Way too much Dino on my sand bed. Going to do 3 days lights out now and will be dosing hydrogen peroxide every day. 3 ml each day for my 29 g biocube.
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If you're still fighting and haven't tried pods and phyto yet, do it!
Look at my posts and pics from the last week. Was going good then moved rock around and got a huge bloom. Two days ago I siphoned the bloom out from gravel, yesterday I added pods and phyto, get this... Today when I got home from work was the first time I didn't have to siphon gravel in a LONG TIME!! |
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It's a GREAT feeling isn't it.
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Yes! You were the one that told me pods would be the nail in the coffin, correct? Thanks It's too early to tell if this will last but it's been the biggest improvement I've seen in months. Now I'm paranoid to change anything. Should I switch out phosphate media or leave it? Put my skimmer back in or leAve it out? I dunno. I'm thinking of starting a refugium since I already have a refugium sump that I only put a skimmer in. I'm thinking just adding one piece of live rock, light, and cheato |
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I would start the skimmer on the dry side but go easy on phosphate media, I would try to keep po4 @ .03 and continue with the phytoplankton, I'm not sure how much your dosing but I was dosing 100ml 4x a day in a 200gal system, after a couple weeks I noticed algae patches forming on the sand(I know it was only algae because I have a microscope) I then cut the dose in half and it cleared up in short order, I haven't vacuumed my sand for a couple weeks and it looks great and I do 15gal water change weekly and run half the carbon I use to. I'm still using the 10uM socks. My po4 has been as hi as .06 and as low as .02 without issue. Last edited by cal_stir; 09/01/2015 at 07:26 PM. Reason: Added info |
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So the only brown stuff I see is mainly on my front and side glass.
Please help me ID uploadfromtaptalk1441338236820.jpg At 250x Last edited by Adrnalnrsh; 09/03/2015 at 09:50 PM. |
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That looks like bacteria?
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according to this, the closest thing I could find was diatoms.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-12/feature/index.php Its like a brown filamentous algae on my glass, near dust like. Depending on how thick it is, comes off like dust. This also appeared a week after using chemi-clean. No trace of cyano anywhere. Snails are all over it too Last edited by Adrnalnrsh; 09/03/2015 at 10:08 PM. |
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