I am fighting Ostreopsis dino's for the second time. UV has been running for a week so far. My nutrients were bottomed out, so I'm assuming that is what caused the ostreo. Right before this I was treating for GHA (I assume it's GHA) and winning using FluxRX. Now that I am dosing phosphate and nitrate, it seems that I am fueling the GHA to come back. Any tricks on fighting both the ostreo and GHA at the same time?
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Fighting Dino's & GHA......
- Thread starter 9supratt4
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The FluxRX was working great. I had just started a second round of dosing when the dino's showed up. Since Ostropsis are toxic when they die, I started running carbon which wiped out the FluxRX.
As for the dino's....I haven't read much about carbon dosing for them. I joined Mack's group on Facebook last time and they recommended the UV which worked. Won't the carbon dosing keep the phosphate and nitrate low helping the dinos proliferate? Right now I'm dosing 10ml a day of Neo-Nitro & Neo-Phos. If I skip a day of dosing, my readings are right back at 0. This is so incredibly aggravating. I'm ready to blow it all up.
My nitrate and phos is very low. Nitrate - 0, Phos 0.25, 3ml vodka daily.
I tried dosing lower, 1ml but to much algae. went up to 2ml and still felt to much algae. So went back to 3ml.
Last night added macro to my sump so maybe at some point can dial back on vodka dosing.
I tried dosing lower, 1ml but to much algae. went up to 2ml and still felt to much algae. So went back to 3ml.
Last night added macro to my sump so maybe at some point can dial back on vodka dosing.