I wish I could recommend more..I figure this stuff out as I go along! Truthfully Ive never heard of anybody's snails starving to death so I interpret that as you can never have enough...small hermits too. Today I bought 20 each snails and hermits. I have a diatom bloom recently as well.
Maxspect Gyre causing Diatoms
- Thread starter ivandrago
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I wish I could recommend more..I figure this stuff out as I go along! Truthfully Ive never heard of anybody's snails starving to death so I interpret that as you can never have enough...small hermits too. Today I bought 20 each snails and hermits. I have a diatom bloom recently as well.
- Location
- White Plains
it could be i mean its brown it all over the sand bed and it sticks to the rock i have to keep blowing it off. Whats a good remedy for the Dino and how did it get into my dank if it is?
My situation is likely different from yours but I'll add anyway:
I have an 80g DD frag tank, I use the 150 gyre. I had to remove my sand in order to use the gyre because even on 20% the top layer began to swirl and eventually would make layers uneven.
So, I took out the large majority of my sand. The sand bed had only been .5-1" and was only 7mos old because I started the tank barebottom. I have maybe 1-2 cups of sand remaining in the tank and it's piled nicely so that my wrasses can still cover themselves at night and my cucumber has something to clean (the patches of sand exist in the deadspot right under the gyre so that's where detritus collects so it's perfect).
This is near 2wks later and everything in my tank is still fine. No cyano, no diatom bloom, etc. I was just out of town for a week and my glass still does not need cleaning.
I have an 80g DD frag tank, I use the 150 gyre. I had to remove my sand in order to use the gyre because even on 20% the top layer began to swirl and eventually would make layers uneven.
So, I took out the large majority of my sand. The sand bed had only been .5-1" and was only 7mos old because I started the tank barebottom. I have maybe 1-2 cups of sand remaining in the tank and it's piled nicely so that my wrasses can still cover themselves at night and my cucumber has something to clean (the patches of sand exist in the deadspot right under the gyre so that's where detritus collects so it's perfect).
This is near 2wks later and everything in my tank is still fine. No cyano, no diatom bloom, etc. I was just out of town for a week and my glass still does not need cleaning.
Also, I didn't have a mini cycle from taking the sand out because I also was proactive and used special blend (bacteria dosed) well before and after in order to speed up the process to balance out my biological filtration since removing the sand, even though I only had a relatively small amount, does export more of my bacteria all at once.
I've also added more rocks to my sump to further aid biological filtration.
I've also added more rocks to my sump to further aid biological filtration.
- Location
- White Plains
I see, well i have a 105 gallon and something is going on in my tank now since B.Bash said that it could be Dino now i think its more and more Dino, i am going to the liquor store today gonna start Vodka Dosing, any one have experience getting rid of Dino. That stuff is covering my corals i have to constantly blow it off, my clean up crew is useless even though i bought like 30 hermits for them to get at it. I did a water change yesterday siphoned the sand the sand is looking better today but the rocks and corals and zoos are covered with this film and i have to keep constantly blowing it off. I haven't fed my fish in 2 days trying to keep the nutrients down, the tangs are starting to graze on the rocks.
- Location
- Long island
Ivan, I'm curious, what's your no3 and po4?
- Location
- White Plains
Please see the parameters they are at 0
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- White Plains
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- Long island
I would say your too low but the API test kit is not accurate enough for po4. I would get better test kits before changing anything.
Nice tank by the way
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Nice tank by the way
?Tank looks great.that doesn't look like Dino. Dino looks like brown snot with bubbles at the end. You may be going through a mini cycle try special blend and don't blow it away. but you can blow it away from coralsIf they're bothered by it. if it is Dino I think hydrogen peroxide works well but be careful and follow directions
- Location
- White Plains
Thanks for the tank comment.
But look at the other pictures there are some strings with some bubbles. but not a lot. i mean i am trying the best.
- Location
- White Plains
Update for everyone, so i got myself 50 red mangroves and blacked out the hole tank for 3 days everything is gone the diatom or the dino what ever it was its gone. i have changed my feeding habbits from everyday to every other day. I will post pictures tonight, the water is now cristal clear.
- Location
- Bethpage,NY
Added a hang on Fuge with macro algae and the tank is more stable.
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