I've been dealing with dino's forever....not knowing what they were made it difficult to start.
The steps I took included the following:
Decreased feeding
Increased skimming
increased carbon & changing frequency
decreased light cycle
changed the sand bed from play sand to aragonite
raising the pH to 8.6
Nothing helped. Every water change (15-20 gals per week), I vacuumed out all I could get at, and blew it stuff off of the rocks with a turkey baster.
It always was back by 80-90% overnight, and 100% in 24 hours.
Raising the pH seemed to keep the stuff at bay, but as soon as I stopped dripping kalkwasser, the stuff would start coming back.
So by the advice of a friend, and LFS employee I picked up some erythromycin and dose at 1/4 to 1/2 of the directions. I bought some EM tablets by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals.
I dosed 1.5 tablets per my 50 gallons for 24 hours, then dosed the same after 24 hours, and did a 25% water change after another 24 hours. With the water change, I added some Carbon, and two PhosX sponges (nitrate, nitrite, and phosphate).
After the first dose, the dino's were mostly white/clear color, but there were patches of thick red in places. With the second dose, all of them were white/clear colored.
With the water change, I vacuumed out everything I could get.
Two days later, I haven't seen any reoccurance. I have not been dripping Kalk, and I have seen no adverse effects what so ever......just beautiful aragonite, and my rock, not covered in red/purple snot.
I'll keep an update going as things progress.
As a side note, I avoided using a chemical treatement such as this, but I have not been able to find a useful treatment. I have been battling this stuff for probably two years on and off.
Robbie
The steps I took included the following:
Decreased feeding
Increased skimming
increased carbon & changing frequency
decreased light cycle
changed the sand bed from play sand to aragonite
raising the pH to 8.6
Nothing helped. Every water change (15-20 gals per week), I vacuumed out all I could get at, and blew it stuff off of the rocks with a turkey baster.
It always was back by 80-90% overnight, and 100% in 24 hours.
Raising the pH seemed to keep the stuff at bay, but as soon as I stopped dripping kalkwasser, the stuff would start coming back.
So by the advice of a friend, and LFS employee I picked up some erythromycin and dose at 1/4 to 1/2 of the directions. I bought some EM tablets by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals.
I dosed 1.5 tablets per my 50 gallons for 24 hours, then dosed the same after 24 hours, and did a 25% water change after another 24 hours. With the water change, I added some Carbon, and two PhosX sponges (nitrate, nitrite, and phosphate).
After the first dose, the dino's were mostly white/clear color, but there were patches of thick red in places. With the second dose, all of them were white/clear colored.
With the water change, I vacuumed out everything I could get.
Two days later, I haven't seen any reoccurance. I have not been dripping Kalk, and I have seen no adverse effects what so ever......just beautiful aragonite, and my rock, not covered in red/purple snot.
I'll keep an update going as things progress.
As a side note, I avoided using a chemical treatement such as this, but I have not been able to find a useful treatment. I have been battling this stuff for probably two years on and off.
Robbie
