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spsick said:
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UGHHHH when you think you’ve just had a persistent bit of cyano but it’s actually dinos that will knock you back a bit. Welp it hasn’t gotten worse really in 2 months so not gonna go crazy with changes. Probably just start dosing actual nitrate as phosphates are good at .05-.1
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Any detritus piled up in the sump corners or, sand due to be vacuumed? "Dinos" aren't always caused by low nutrients. I have more brown slime "dinos" from detritus than from if po4 bottoms out. Never have seen an actual correlation with nitrate. Or, if DI resin is a bit old, silicate can really fuel brown dino-like slime. Alot of the stuff out there on "dinos" is really just throw 💩 at the wall and see if it sticks it seems.
 
Jposch said:
Any detritus piled up in the sump corners or, sand due to be vacuumed? "Dinos" aren't always caused by low nutrients. I have more brown slime "dinos" from detritus than from if po4 bottoms out. Never have seen an actual correlation with nitrate. Or, if DI resin is a bit old, silicate can really fuel brown dino-like slime. Alot of the stuff out there on "dinos" is really just throw 💩 at the wall and see if it sticks it seems.
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I did get them under the microscope and confirm. And yes I have some detritus under the rocks in my sump for sure and in the sand as I can’t siphon nearly as much as I would like. I really need more detrtivores…
 
spsick said:
I did get them under the microscope and confirm. And yes I have some detritus under the rocks in my sump for sure and in the sand as I can’t siphon nearly as much as I would like. I really need more detrtivores…
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I'd start with cleaning up detritus ans see what happens. That'll also take out alot of the anaerobic bacteria which is converting beneficial nitrogen and phosphorous into undesirable organics. That alone can be all it takes.
Here's a case where the guy had alot of issues, and the root cause seemed to be as simple as just cleaning up detritus.

Think its time to quit…

So i have 200 gallon tank as some of yall know and it’s been in a complete full decline since last month makes zero sense why but most likely cause i refuse to do 40 gallon water changes weekly All my perimeters are perfect Temp 78 Alk 9.0 Mag 1300 Calcium 460 Phosphate .12 Nitrate .15 Dosing...
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All corals continue to be happy and this guy really surged in vibrancy since I started dosing calcium nitrate instead of ammonia.

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Someday I will see growth like this? Right? Right…….? :)
 
@spsick have you tried iron. I have heard Chris meckley say that him and Chris (Captivat8 Aquaculture) dose iron to get rid of it
 
asifiqbal2 said:
@spsick have you tried iron. I have heard Chris meckley say that him and Chris (Captivat8 Aquaculture) dose iron to get rid of it
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Chris Meckley is a crackpot haha.

I think the iron is actually part of my problem. Since I switched to Nyos (which has iron) I’ve seen bubble algae and red turf algae that were dormant take off, and now dinos.

Thinking back, I remember Abe suggest I dose iron when I was having issues with pale acros and bubble algae went nuts. So it may be that and not the ammonia I was dosing. Or maybe both were feeding it.

I do still have some iron, but really gunshy on dosing stuff I can’t test for.

I probably need to send in an ICP to see what’s going on, but assuming the iron is getting consumed by algae anyway.
 
I forgot about the NYOS salt. You maybe right.
Tell you what get some instant ocean and do couple back to back and see if that makes a difference. My rationale is let’s say the ICP shows a problem, the solution will be water change lol
 
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