I have been having a battle with dinos for a while, it has been a lot of manual removal and dosing nitrates, phosphates and silica for a while.
I started a 3 day blackout with a UV sterilizer connected to my display tank. (20 Gallon long, UV is a Turbo twist 12X)
On the first day of the blackout my nepthea coral practically fell down. The other nepthea next to it did it as well the following day as did one of my toadstools.
My xenia coral has been pretty much unhappy but it is a bit active.
My other softies and LPS seem to be doing okay post-blackout.
It has now been 2 days since the blackout finished.
While the visible dinos are mostly gone I am left with some detritus and some GHA.
My main concern now is wondering if I should leave the corals alone for a few more days or if I should start thinking about fragging them in case they get worse.
aside from adding a UV I also added a carbon reactor to the tank on day 2.
I added it to deal with the toxins the Dinos (Ostereopsis) were possibly releasing after dying.
I'm not sure if that was the cause for the slumped corals on day 1.
But if the toxins were the cause will to corals bounce back up or will they be deformed for a wile?
I started a 3 day blackout with a UV sterilizer connected to my display tank. (20 Gallon long, UV is a Turbo twist 12X)
On the first day of the blackout my nepthea coral practically fell down. The other nepthea next to it did it as well the following day as did one of my toadstools.
My xenia coral has been pretty much unhappy but it is a bit active.
My other softies and LPS seem to be doing okay post-blackout.
It has now been 2 days since the blackout finished.
While the visible dinos are mostly gone I am left with some detritus and some GHA.
My main concern now is wondering if I should leave the corals alone for a few more days or if I should start thinking about fragging them in case they get worse.
aside from adding a UV I also added a carbon reactor to the tank on day 2.
I added it to deal with the toxins the Dinos (Ostereopsis) were possibly releasing after dying.
I'm not sure if that was the cause for the slumped corals on day 1.
But if the toxins were the cause will to corals bounce back up or will they be deformed for a wile?