I like BRS Ca Pharma Calcium Chloride 1-Gallon Mix - Bulk Reef Supply
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Dynoflagellates
- Thread starter David
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I’ll get something small from the lfs to take care ot this short term, but I will take that into consideration for future dosing requirements. I saw the brs video. That does look a cheap, safe and easy way.
Thank you. Is that dosed daily?
for me, yes.
Thanks. Great info.
My dynos are almost gone. I have done 6 doses of DynoX. I will continue till 10 doses. I dose one 10 mil. dose every other day, 1 hour after the lights go out. I have not changed my lighting duration or intensity. I did remove my carbon, and am skimming wet. My bio pellet reactor has been tumbling since Friday. I put a cap full of calcium and I’m up to 410. Alk 10 dkh, mag: 1360. Nitrates 10, phosphates 0.25. Not bad numbers. The reactor and good husbandry should eventually drive the nitrates down.
The rock and sand bed look nice and clean. I’m 8 doses in. I’m going to do the maximum of 10 doses/21 days of DinoX dosing. It seems to be working and it doesn’t seemto be hurting anything else. Last dose will be on the 22nd. I’ll put my activated carbon back in on the 24th. I will not go back to using GFO, as My phosphates have remained low ever since I removed it. I’ll just put the carbon in that reactor. I’m also using my bio pellet reactor, with half the recomended amount of pellets for my volume. I will evaluate if I need more or less pellets in a month. I want to get nitrates down, but I don’t want to strip them out completely.
So far, so good as far as Dino. The Dino’s did not come back. No3, and Po4 shot up last week. A couple small water changes & back to gfo & carbon. Po4 came back down to acceptable level. No3 is still a little elevated, but slightly improved. I still have a tone of loose detritus and sludge accumulation in my rocks, but it’s not algae. I blow it off frequently, but it never really gets any cleaner. The stuff just blows around the tank. My filter sock does seem to get some of it, but not enough to make a difference. Has anyone tried dr Tim’s waist-away, or any simulator products? I assume I don’t have a sufficient benefitial bacteria population to process the solid waist.
HA. I had a mess like that once. I stirred it all up, stuck a return pup in the tank and shot the return line back into the tank through filter socks after filter socks. A dozen filter socks later and ta da. No more free floating detritus/debris....lol.
Not recommended but did work.
Not recommended but did work.