transferred my tank over a couple weeks ago and everything was fine as I thought I killed the dinos through peroxide dip and coral rx. realized corals can also ingest the dinos so essentially the dips did nothing besides helping me not transfer pests (which is still a plus). dinos started beginning of this week. started dosing silicates into the tank and dinos are nowhere to be seen only 4 days later as diatoms have overtaken then. yes the tank is hazy and orange but I have 0 dinos at the moment. snails are happy to eat the diatoms as well because they've been super active since dinos were overtaken by them.
will have to see if keeping po4 and nitrates in balance as detectable levels will keep it at bay now. if not I'll continue to dose some silicates along with my water changes and will have to purchase a silicate test kit. blind dosing at the moment but followed bottle directions and didn't overdo it.
I used spongexcel.
will have to see if keeping po4 and nitrates in balance as detectable levels will keep it at bay now. if not I'll continue to dose some silicates along with my water changes and will have to purchase a silicate test kit. blind dosing at the moment but followed bottle directions and didn't overdo it.
I used spongexcel.
I've used this method about 4 times now and it's always worked, just posting here in case it helps (sounds like you might have had a few blooms of dinos since your first round of success):
