Tamberav Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Make it into a cold water tank? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 Make it into a cold water tank? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 Maybe the dino would die. Since they're a tropical species, yes, they would, but as would my fish, coral, inverts, etc that also are tropical. Link to comment
Tamberav Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Since they're a tropical species, yes, they would, but as would my fish, coral, inverts, etc that also are tropical. ya but you won't have dino Link to comment
gena Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 I just realized - I placed my order for my Hawkwing conch on July 4th, 2012, got him that Friday, so I've had him almost two years! He's quite the acrobat My guy is still going strong. And he still has a clean pink shell . How long before he has some "character"? Link to comment
1.0reef Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 I just realized - I placed my order for my Hawkwing conch on July 4th, 2012, got him that Friday, so I've had him almost two years! He's quite the acrobat Awesome! Reminds me of my Sea hare, inverts are so cute! Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 My guy is still going strong. And he still has a clean pink shell . How long before he has some "character"? About the same as live rock, maybe a little longer since they sometimes burrow in the sand and it rubs some of the stuff off of it. Link to comment
NirvanaandTool Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Wow you've had the conch that long? I've never had them live longer than a year or so. They were the only sand cleaners I could keep with my smashers back in my mantis shrimp days. They were too big to kill lol Link to comment
metrokat Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 argh, too big for my tank, I would have liked an aggressive sand bed stirrer. I've tried a sand star twice and they didn't make it, not sure why. Errbady knows the sandbed is crazy dirty. Link to comment
gena Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 About the same as live rock, maybe a little longer since they sometimes burrow in the sand and it rubs some of the stuff off of it.Yeah, mine likes to burrow in the sand. In fact, I just looked and saw this LOL.... He's getting cleaned . Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted July 1, 2014 Author Share Posted July 1, 2014 Cal 575ppm, alk 121ppm, mag 1400ppm, and strangely no silica reading at all. Dosed another 1.5mL silicate (which should bring my tank to ~1.5ppm, will test it again tomorrow. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted July 1, 2014 Author Share Posted July 1, 2014 Very strange thing today. I come home and grab the turkey baster to blow the dinos off of everything, which is what I do every day wehn I get home... but there is nothing. No dino strings anywhere. I know they're not gone, there is no way in hell that could have happened, but wtf? I don't miss them, and hope that this is permanent, but I wish I knew why. Link to comment
Tamberav Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 They are ####ing with your mind Link to comment
metrokat Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 BENNY. TEST ALL YOUR PARAMETERS AGAIN. I know you tested yesterday or whatever but you had dinos yesterday. Today you don't. Test every parameter you can test for. Post them up along with anything you may have been dosing and how much. Should the dinos come back, testing again might give us a clue. Maybe reaching whatever levels you have today of the parameters might keep them at bay. Don't forget temperature. This is good. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted July 2, 2014 Author Share Posted July 2, 2014 BENNY. TEST ALL YOUR PARAMETERS AGAIN. I know you tested yesterday or whatever but you had dinos yesterday. Today you don't. Test every parameter you can test for. Post them up along with anything you may have been dosing and how much. Should the dinos come back, testing again might give us a clue. Maybe reaching whatever levels you have today of the parameters might keep them at bay. Don't forget temperature. This is good. I know what you're thinking, but it's completely unrelated. Testing doesn't change anything in the water. Nothing changed besides one feeding between then and now. There is nothing in cal/alk/mag that dinos are limited by, so there is no use in testing further simply to test other than give Red Sea more money lol. Link to comment
jball1125 Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 That is to assume we know everything there is to know about dynos already. Surely you have more money invested in the tank than you do in red sea products. Kat's Idea is hopeful but not impossible. Reading about your dino problem reminds me of the days when I used to keep discus. It felt more like work than a fun hobby. Spending big bucks on a microscope just to look at fish poop and scale cultures, never being able to get everything 100% healthy no matter how much water I changed and chemicals I dosed. I feel for ya bud. Link to comment
gabe3eb Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Dinos are such will-suckers. Hopefully you don't have to figure out why they left and just be thankfully they are gone. Totally agree that the PicO 5/NB combo is not a good choice if you aren't "all-in" on it. I'm planning an Mp-10 and about to order the shallow shield. That puts me just under $300 for the tank and PicO accessories. $450ish for the Mini w/ Blue Fish and $200ish for the MP-10 . $950 and I don't even had sand, rock, heater, test kits, ATO, skimmer, new RO/DI unit, etc etc. Plus I need a bluetooth speaker and webcam so that I can activated a thunderstorm and watch/listen to it halfway across the world at will. Because why else would I want a Blue Fish???? Link to comment
Tamberav Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Maybe something happened on a bacterial/microscopic level? I would assume different bacteria would be competing for resources and space. Link to comment
metrokat Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 I know what you're thinking, but it's completely unrelated. Testing doesn't change anything in the water. Nothing changed besides one feeding between then and now. There is nothing in cal/alk/mag that dinos are limited by, so there is no use in testing further simply to test other than give Red Sea more money lol. LISTEN TO ME! Link to comment
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