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NoriMuncher

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This stuff is driving me crazy. Link to a video - QkNhTXs.mp4

 

Is that enough for a positive ID? It's definitely a kind that disappears at night, gets thick in the light. 

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They bottomed out for a long time. This is a one year old tank, live sand, life rock, lightly stocked, too heavy on the water changes. Apparently I was asking for it.

Now I've gone a couple months running UV (9W in my 25G tank). Nitrate & phos have been really stubborn, I added a lot without the numbers budging, but its been 5+ppm nitrate and .05+ phos for a month now. 

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17 hours ago, NoriMuncher said:

This is a one year old tank, live sand, life rock, lightly stocked, too heavy on the water changes. Apparently I was asking for it.

i went through the same path on a my first tank three years ago. Was given the idea that nitrates and phosphates are evil, so i kept them at 0. Until dinos made a visit. 

 

Honestly, raise them more. 10ppm+ for nitrates and get those phosphates at 0.1-0.2. Even if they go higher, don't sweat it.

 

What kind of corals do you have? 

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17 hours ago, NoriMuncher said:

Now I've gone a couple months running UV (9W in my 25G tank)

Keep running it. It helps. Not with all strands, but with some of them. In my current tank that i started in April, I had three strands of dinos. UV eliminated two, and dirtying up the tank took care of the third one. They appear here and there, but they went from a TON of them to barely any after a few weeks of UV. 

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Not much. Zoas lasted a long time, but they're sad little nubs now. Hammer survived dinos for so long I thought it had no problem but suddenly its gone. Monty plate & especially leather coral seem to be very happy. Don't have much to lose now, might give DinoX a shot. If it works, add some live rock quickly. 

I've dosed microbacter, ocean magic, pods to no effect. Ocean magic actually seemed to turbo charge the dino growth.

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You need PO4 levels to remain at 0.10 ppm (or higher) for maximum effect.  Dips below that level could promote the bloom.

 

Keep nitrate level in the positive as well....5+ ppm is fine.

 

Are you running activated carbon to remove dino toxins from the water?

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