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Unread 08/25/2015, 03:56 PM   #1626
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What kind of pods
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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Unread 08/25/2015, 03:59 PM   #1627
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Amphipods, copepods and I added pods+ from reef cleaners
oh yeah, i also used reef cleaners for tons of new snails and the fuzzy critons (strange looking things but kinda cool looking in a prehistoric way VERY VERY slow moving), limpits....


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Unread 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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Unread 08/27/2015, 11:00 AM   #1629
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Saturday morning I started to add the content of my skimmer back to the tank after having sat there for a week.
I drained the wet part from the skimmer in 3 doses 3 hours apart to make sure it was not too much of a shock to the fish.
I can't say I like the smell of sulfur in the morning, but it didn't seem to have any effect on the fishes.

The skimmer was turned off and the water turned slightly less transparent with the 0.4gallon (1.5 litres) of skimate back in there.
I scraped the glass as well to add to the mix and added a bag of GAC to a high flow area.

Last night the dinos took off the sand bed for their nightly swim in the water column and today right after the lights come on they all returned so it looks identical to how it did yesterday.

If something happens in the next few days or not, you will be the first to know.

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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Unread 08/27/2015, 11:07 AM   #1630
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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.


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Unread 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.

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Unread 08/27/2015, 11:35 AM   #1632
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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.
That's a milestone alright.
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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Unread 08/27/2015, 11:39 AM   #1633
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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.
I think we might be just culturing our own dinos, they probably get sucked into the skimmer and survive quite happily. Why'd it work for Monti and Cal? Maybe the predatory bacteria just aren't there in our tanks while they have them. Skimmate from someone else's tank would be interesting to try.


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Unread 08/27/2015, 11:53 AM   #1634
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I think we might be just culturing our own dinos, they probably get sucked into the skimmer and survive quite happily. Why'd it work for Monti and Cal? Maybe the predatory bacteria just aren't there in our tanks while they have them. Skimmate from someone else's tank would be interesting to try.


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I never put skimmate back into the tank.


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Unread 08/27/2015, 11:55 AM   #1635
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That's a milestone alright.
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.
I tried to sum it all up in post 1589.


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Unread 08/27/2015, 12:03 PM   #1636
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I never put skimmate back into the tank.
Whoops, sorry. I should have read back instead of going by memory.

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Unread 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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Unread 08/27/2015, 12:31 PM   #1638
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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?
Funny, I added an urchin when I added my new fish a few weeks ago and it's almost destroyed everything any algae I've had on my rocks and back wall.

Wait til it finds my front glass.


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Unread 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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Unread 08/27/2015, 12:44 PM   #1640
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Whoops, sorry. I should have read back instead of going by memory.

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I've added skimmate as well however I've not seen dinos since I dose chemiclean and added pods/phyto. I added skimmate after that


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Unread 08/27/2015, 12:46 PM   #1641
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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?

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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2G0f9tpRN3M

After
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ENj_qkHpS0I
I tried Peroxide and yes its the normal store bought kind. I didn't see results.


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Unread 08/27/2015, 03:00 PM   #1642
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No results with h2o2 here either.


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Unread 08/27/2015, 03:03 PM   #1643
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No results with h2o2 here either.
When did you apply it? At night or during the day?


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Unread 08/27/2015, 03:12 PM   #1644
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lights out if I recall correctly.


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Unread 08/27/2015, 04:04 PM   #1645
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When did you apply it? At night or during the day?
I did 1ml/10gal for 10 days with lights on and nothing, then I did another 5 days with 4 days lights out and still nothing, might have ****ed the dinos off a bit but didn't make a dent.


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Unread 08/27/2015, 04:11 PM   #1646
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I did 1ml/10gal for 10 days with lights on and nothing, then I did another 5 days with 4 days lights out and still nothing, might have ****ed the dinos off a bit but didn't make a dent.
I did dose at night with my skimmer off.


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Unread 08/27/2015, 04:43 PM   #1647
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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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Unread 08/27/2015, 05:15 PM   #1648
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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

Natural habitat and chemical markers would be high on the list.


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Unread 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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Unread 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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