LCA Dinos?

[bcarl77]

What types would be best for this application?

 

[Garf]

What types would be best for this application?

Lots of proper live rock would be best to innoculate, but failing that any of the commercially available pods could help. Over here in the UK, proper live rock is like rocking horse poo.

 

[thedon986]

On the sand, disappears at night, not responsive to chemiclean. It’s dinos. Had them in three different setups. All behaved the same, all confirmed under scope.

Previous tank I had with them looked just like this. No snot, minimal bubbles, just red interspersed among the sand grains.

Can be very hard to beat if you started with dry rock and sand. Often the best choice is go bare bottom until your rock builds up a microfauna more representative of the ocean and then slowly add sand back. Although I did go bare bottom 4 months and when I upgraded and moved the rock over they came right back to the sand, but rock age was less than 1 year. The other option is silica, high nutrients, time, and maybe carbon dosing at night.

Below is my previous setup when they came back after bare bottom then upgrading. Looks identical just under white lights. The blue lights bring out the red fluorescence more.

 

[memo831]

I've been fighting confirmed LCA in another tank for 3 months. I'm dosing silicates and Microbacter7. It was never really bad and it's 99% clear now and has been for a few weeks. I'm still dosing though and shall until coralline takes over. I have a ton of coral in this one.

I've been fighting confirmed LCA in another tank for 3 months. I'm dosing silicates and Microbacter7. It was never really bad and it's 99% clear now and has been for a few weeks. I'm still dosing though and shall until coralline takes over. I have a ton of coral in this one.

Hello how much silicate did you dose per gallon. And also how much microbacter7 did you dose per gallon?

 

[thedon986]

Hello how much silicate did you dose per gallon. And also how much microbacter7 did you dose per gallon?

Not who you asked but I dosed 1ml of 40% sodium silicate per day per 50 gallons until I saw more diatoms than dinos on my microscope slides. Usually about 2 weeks then I start to dial it back half that for another two weeks and see if progress continues.

 

[memo831]

Not who you asked but I dosed 1ml of 40% sodium silicate per day per 50 gallons until I saw more diatoms than dinos on my microscope slides. Usually about 2 weeks then I start to dial it back half that for another two weeks and see if progress continues.

Can i also use the microbacter7? And how much also.