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Well dropped in 5 gallons of water with high nutrients. Siphoned out as much of the dinos as I could. Removed the chaeto. Starting a blackout... hope my coral can handle this... they are very stressed...
danieyella
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Not sure if it fixed my problem or was coincidence, but about 1.5 yrs ago I struggled with dinos and eradicating them. I did a heavy prodibio bacteria dose & then added an oxydator and ran it consistently for about 8 months (until the pandemic started and the right % peroxide got hard to find) if I recall correctly I noticed the dinos begin to disappear within a week and they never came back.
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@fishguy242 @Eagle_Steve @MERKEY do you think I'd be ok to run 2 of my T5s while doing this? I'm afraid the coral won't survive if I dont...
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my opinion would be atleast 2-3 hours of blues..but have never done blackout.. 
danieyella
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I blacked out 4 days, no blues, with some stress to lps & sps but they all bounced back. It didn't solve the problem for more than a few days.
MERKEY
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You should be ok for 2 or 3 days blacked out with no loss, but every tank is different.
I've read of people going longer with no issues but I'd hate to be the person to tell you it's all good and something bad happens.
Let's see get a couple more responses especially that really smart guy @Eagle_Steve says
MERKEY
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This is what I would probably do as I'd be too freaked out about my coral hahahamy opinion would be atleast 2-3 hours of blues..but have never done blackout..
It depends on the Dinos. Do you have a scope? Black out will only work for some types. Also, for a blackout, it can cause stress to corals. Especially sps corals.
Tbh, anytime I have dealt with Dinos, I have always dosed bottled bac (biosprira or fritz turbo start) and then dosed sodium triphisphate and/or sodium nitrate. Depended on what nutrient was bottomed out.
Also, either method you chose, run a crap ton of carbon. Dead Dinos irritate the crap out of corals.
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F i s h y
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Both phosphates and nitrates bottomed out. Nitrates undetectable phosphates .04... ill have to rig up some carbon.
If you are near a big city, this sodium nitrate is usually available overnight or next day.
Trisodium phosphate is best from loud wolf.
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F i s h y
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Peeked in the tank today and ran some tests... a little bit of dinos left. But not much considering the extensive quick outbreak I had.
Nitrates register at between 2 and 5. Not quite where I want them but better than 0. Phosphates I knew I was bumping up quick. The water I used from another tank is very high. Test came back at .21. So a little high but much better than .03... ill give it a couple more days to adjust and keep feeding heavy.
Question for everyone. Does adding phyto, specifically live phyto raise nutrients or is it more likely to consume them enough to matter?
Nitrates register at between 2 and 5. Not quite where I want them but better than 0. Phosphates I knew I was bumping up quick. The water I used from another tank is very high. Test came back at .21. So a little high but much better than .03... ill give it a couple more days to adjust and keep feeding heavy.
Question for everyone. Does adding phyto, specifically live phyto raise nutrients or is it more likely to consume them enough to matter?
najer
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I feed live phyto and it will lower your nutrients.
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DINOS ARE ALREADY GONE!
Everything looks much better. Nems are traveling probably because of the lack of light.
It's interesting to me how none of my acros seem affected but my birdsnest had about 33% bleaching and stn.
Everything looks much better. Nems are traveling probably because of the lack of light.
It's interesting to me how none of my acros seem affected but my birdsnest had about 33% bleaching and stn.
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F i s h y
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Will stick with no whites for a couple more days. Then slowly ramp back up
Birds nest are the @&$)@&$ of sticks. Littlest thing sets them off lol.DINOS ARE ALREADY GONE!
Everything looks much better. Nems are traveling probably because of the lack of light.
It's interesting to me how none of my acros seem affected but my birdsnest had about 33% bleaching and stn.
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F i s h y
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Got a new fishy...
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Couple of cheap coral...
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Really digging this yellow mushroom...
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Oh my oh my nom nom!Really digging this yellow mushroom...
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