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Message: <blockquote data-quote="taricha" data-source="post: 11365589" data-attributes="member: 69455"><p>If it were my system in these circumstances: toxic dinos ostreopsis and prorocentrum, Corals and herbivores dying. UV in place but not effective enough, I'd do the following.</p><p></p><p>1) keep UV in place in the display, but make sure it's working - bulb turning on, slow flow of a couple hundred GPH.</p><p>2) remove as much nuisance material as possible - vacuum out any noticeable brown. </p><p>3) blast stuff off of corals. any toxic dinos that settle on corals seem to kill those parts of the coral rapidly (~ a day)</p><p>4) hang filter floss in high flow and wring it out / tapwater rinse around noon daily. (or twice a day during lights on if getting lots of brown accumulation)</p><p>see this for details...</p><p></p><p></p><p>5) I am not going to add any more snails/pods/phyto etc while I have toxic dinos - that is simply adding organisms that are dying due to toxins, decaying and feeding the nuisance growth. (carbon dosing - with skimmer - seems not to be a problem). </p><p>6) run GAC for toxins in the water. A small amount changed frequently might be better here than large amounts.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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