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12-29-2009, 01:13 AM
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lol, cant wait that long
did a 3 day black out, 4 55 gal water changes, changed out zeo rocks, carbon, sucked out 70% of sand and goo, today, no better
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12-29-2009, 01:14 AM
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it can take months of doing this my friend I bid you good luck........ I would never wish t his on my worst enemy.....
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12-29-2009, 02:22 AM
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I`ve been fighting the dino for years now and recently I finally got it beat.
I`ll tell you what worked for me and what didn`t. What didn't work ! 3 Day black out; it worked but if you don`t solve the underlying problem it`ll just come back (I lost a few corals due to the stress too!) Raising PH; I didn't see any difference. GFO; It didn't make much of a difference for me but I still recommend its use in general. No water changes; Didn`t work in my experience What worked! Carbon; This made a big difference in my experience! Lots and Lots at least 1 Cup per 50G. The more the better. Changing RO Membrane; I believe this was the main problem. If your not getting 0 TDS then your going to have Algae problems. Good Husbandry in general. What may also help for you is using a diatom filter and running some silicate absorbing media through a reactor. If you feed frozen foods you should rinse them before adding to tank. Good luck
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12-29-2009, 02:59 AM
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I had a dino problem for a bit. I still get little flair ups from time to time (is it like the Herpes of SW tanks?) but it is more or less gone now. What worked for me was carbon (lots of it), continually blasting the rocs with a baster and vacumming often. Oh, and one other thing... I have no way of backing this up, but whenever I have dosed iodine in small amounts the dino seems to die back... no idea why, but it works in my tank...
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12-29-2009, 04:28 AM
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They are a pain to get rid of. I am still struggling with a bit in my tank.
run carbon and gfo don't change your water every week, this only causes more break outs. I honestly haven't changed mine in a month but have been dosing to keep everything up this is what has worked for me another method i read about is running a powerhead with a filter on it at night (like the small fluval ones) and cleaning the filter every morning
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12-29-2009, 05:10 AM
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dinos
I raised ph, magnesium and total blackout for 4 days. I mean TOTAL. Not a sliver of light into the tank. I used my motorcycle cover and put it over the whole tank.
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12-29-2009, 05:29 AM
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I've had a couple of small outbreaks on one part of my sand bed and on 2 rocks. what worked run carbon i've been running at minumum 1 Lb. added a couple of ocilating power heads this helped. I have also added a tuxedo urchin he eats every thing but has not gone on the rocks that I want him to as I have 3 rocks that have Hair algae on. I have a shortened light on time from most others this helps for alot of thing.
My fish pick at it but not much so once a month I pluck and I get quite a bit of the root matter, it will not grow back if you can get the root matter out also. I think the urchin is prity cool cleans the rock better than the sea hare I borrowed, the urchin takes it right down to rock no green tint left as compared to the sea hare. In a couple of months I maybe able to get ride of mast of the hermit crabs I will probably keep a couple of the smaller ones. Bill
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