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06/11/2016, 11:04 AM | #3751 | |
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I did go through the bad GHA but when i introduced more chaeto and some phsguard it subsided. What i did notice is that my chaeto ball started shrinking after dinos appeared. Why would that be? Sent from my LGLS990 using Tapatalk |
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Yes it's in high flow areas too. It has started to loose it's color and thin out a bit. I hoping it's starting to die off.
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So, we think that the infection starts with very clean conditions without normal algae and a decimated biodiversity. Younger immature systems are the most susceptible... ULNS for example, excessive continuous heavy skimming, no feeding, Lanthanun Chloride, use of algaecides, chemicals that kill the biofauna, dead rock missing the normal host of bacteria and pods, etc... For a previously clean system to go back your require an offset in the biological balance and negligence usually creates a bias towards an algae tank, not a dino tank. It should take active effort to get sick again. What did you do/not do for the weeks before it came back?
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I'm facing a different issue. I have cyano due to my tank being exposed to the elements and absorbing mountains of insects. I also have a very hungry tank so cutting back on feeding is a problem.
Since dinos usually come with Cyano, I wonder if anyone has tried killing the cyano and measure the impact on dinos. I've never used chemicals in my tank, except Lanthanum and that precipitated my Dino infestation... So I'm hesitant to go there again. However, due to the excess cyano in my sump and the unknown black algae (cyano+??) in my DT, I'm using chemiclean to break up the cyano and the resulting red slime. I hope it'll break up the black algae too. I'm turning my monster skimmer on 24/7 but at a low height to avoid overflows. I'm also turning my UV off... Here we go...
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Just thought i'd post an update. It's been 2 weeks since the blackout. Over the course of those two weeks, I very slowly went from blues at 1% up to full spectrum 17000K at 50% for 3 hours a day. I plan on bumping it up to 4 hours per day next week. I stopped phyto dosing as it started smelling really foul, but I will continue dosing Microbacter7 after each water change.
I also came home with 5 frags yesterday. Everything appears to be happy in my tank so far, to my relief. I'm still reluctant to celebrate, but I am feeling cautiously optimistic. I'll post another update in the future as to whether the blackout/biobomb method stuck long term.
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06/12/2016, 12:35 PM | #3757 |
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So for anyone who hasn't tried Chemi-clean (my first)... It was a little nuts!
It literally looks like soap!!! But my corals look great with polyps out... fish are good too. Now I wait for 48 hours. I think it's some kind of flocculant?? It has a strong effect on surface tension, I can see that in the way the water looks against the top... like an oil, or a film is making it very smooth and clear until it gets roughed up... then bubbles like crazy. well - learning together...
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06/12/2016, 01:02 PM | #3758 |
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I thought it was an antibiotic.
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06/12/2016, 04:20 PM | #3760 |
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I turned my skimmer height down since my skimmer is terrestrial (sits on the ground).
The water/soap bubble level is at about 7 ft instead of the usual 10 ft.
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06/14/2016, 07:41 AM | #3761 |
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That's typical with CC use. I maintain several aquaria in their second and third decades and find that it is a nice cheat on occasion on tanks when they start to lose efficiency processing nutrients. Dial back the skimmer and skim wet for a few hours when it is time to remove the CC. It comes out quickly. I thought it was an oxidizer; some claim it is simply EM in another form.
I now have an infestation that is likely Gambiordiscus - an autotroph that was initiated by the customer's sloppy use of cleaning products. Several months of warning about using far too strong solutions on the floor and the possibility of sterilizing the bacteria in the tank and here we are. I'd just been following the thread for fun as of late, looks like I'm back in... Started with blackout since it is an autotroph, but day 3 and we still don't have much to report. I want to use H2O2 but the tank is full of RBTA and I understand they are sensitive to peroxide.
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Started dosing h202, see how that works oit
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and no it doesn't look like soap by itself (karim, did you overdose?)...it's an oxidizer and makes your skimmer go nuts hence the bubbles...if your skimmer was off and you add cc, it would not look like that...i sometimes will add a spoonful of cc into fresh saltwater once a month or so and it keeps the cyano away |
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06/14/2016, 02:35 PM | #3765 |
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Erythromycin is an antibiotic, not an oxidizer. It's more likely to be a bit of a reducing agent, actually. I've never measured oxygen in conjunction with dosing an antibiotic, but I doubt there's be much change unless there was a very large amount of decaying cyanobacteria remnants in the water column.
That said, adding oxidizers can lead to a drop the oxygen level in a tank if the oxidizers kill enough organisms.
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My tank is different than most. I have an extreme level of oxygenation/surface agitation and I've just added even more.
I lowered my skimmer down to 6 "feet"... To be clear = 72" of water and foam. That's down from the usual 10ft. I have 2000gph flowing through the skimmer and circulating foam inside it at ~4500gph and sucking in about 5gal/min of fresh air. I use a surge that agitates 40gals in 3 seconds I have 4 x WP60s creating 3" waves I use 4 x surface flow diverters I just added a 24" x 24" ATS screen that creates a thin film surface over 8 sqft of mesh flowing at 3000gph So... With all that, my oxygenation is probably ridiculous. The CC caused a thick foam and ALL my coral polyps to open up to the extreme. It was ridiculous. Like a polyp party... This stayed for three days with actual noticeable growth in some of my SPS. I can't describe it, but it's as if they were being held back and then suddenly sprung out... It slowly subsided and I ran a water change last night... Skimmer back to normal. Everything looks fantastic! Cyano completely gone- even under the sand / against the glass - wish I had taken some before pics. The black algae I had broke apart... I think it was a matrix organism made of cyano, hair and other things. But the cyano was the binding agent since it can grow over other organisms. In 24hrs, the stuff was blowing away and the crabs were feasting on the material underneath it. They were literally mobbing the areas where it had been. Why didn't they do that before??? Anyway... My tank's response to chemiclean was outstanding... My corals never looked so good. Heck, the algae in my chaeto box and ATS look better and healthier!!!! Yes- I am excited about the health of my algae.. I don't know what's in it but I bet it's a combination antibiotic and flocculant. It has a visibly power effect of the air/water interface ... Almost like a clear film. I don't know how other tanks react to it, but if I am pretty sure that this stuff can kill a tank without surface agitation. It would "seal" up the tank's surfaces and suffocate it without the hyper-surface agitation. If you want to try it, I recommend creating a reactor region where you pass the water through a large volume container (maybe a Rubbermaid tub?) and agitate it like a blender with powerheads, air stones, and dump surges... And then circulate as much water through this "lung" as you can. You should agitate the surface of your tank too, but if you're not getting the "soap" bubbles effect, you're probably not there yet.
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Or just put your skimmer in your sump and run it open top (as many have commented).
I just think the more suds, the better.
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My skimmer: (sorry- needs multiple shots)
My waterfall ATS: My surface diverters: My surge: My powerheads:
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last night, after dark, I noticed that one of my corals was still really extending its polyps and producing a ton of mucus.. no idea if it's related to the CC
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Thats no skimmer. Its a space station. Holy Crow!
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Karim since you dosed the chemiclean check out Dr. Tim's Eco Balance. Dump some in mid afternoon as it will plummet the pH as I've found there to be lots of active bacteria and not a bunch of other filler stuff. Of the few I've looked at up close it's the only one I'd recommend so far. I want to buy more bacteria in a bottle and look at them too.
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I tried Dr Tim's last month. I bought two bottles. Each is 2 treatments for my tank. I tried it three times but without much benefit that I could see. I still have half a bottle left.
Maybe after CC, the tank is better prepared for a different strain of bacteria...
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Yes. When I look up at it, I hear the "2001 A Space Odyssey" theme
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Which Dr. Tim's? I did not like the look of what was in the One and Only. I didn't see anything alive at all and lots of detritus. The Eco Balance was full of life and clean looking liquid. Only reason I suggest it is if the chemi clean is an antibiotic an infusion of lively little cells may be good.
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