Dino’s

What are your nutrient levels?

 

Ah ok. Do you have something to slowly raise them? Overfeed a but?

 

I have a bottle of Seachem Flourish Phosphorus and Seachem Flourish Nitrogen, if you want to try. I used it about 6 months ago when I had a similar problem in my frag tank. I had same issue with 0 for both nitrogen and phosphates. The directions definitely allow you to control increases in nitrogen and phosphates. Although it worked for me somewhat, no3 and po4 kept going to 0. My problem (IMO) was a rock I had moved from my DT to the Frag tank. I think it had too much bacteria in it and it kept sucking everything out of the water. As soon as I removed it, the dinos/cyano (not totally sure which I had), disappeared and I was able to keep No3 and Po4 in my tank.

 

Jeanette kind of summed up what I have to say, but I'll give you my $0.02. My dino problem was starting to get nasty, so I started dosing Brightwell nitrogen, turned off my skimmer, and cut the duration I ran my fuge light. This, coupled with removing 80% of my sand bed seemed to work. However, it totally threw off my corals. I lost a lot of tissue on my montiporas and acros. Most have recovered, but some completely died. So I'd definitely recommend carefully artificially raising NO3 and PO4, but still run your skimmer. Maybe skim a little more dry. As for using a diatom filter, I have no experience. I'd think it would work though, as I can't imagine dinos would survive being run through it! Stir them up, suck em up, then let us know what happens!!

 

We have had this before in a past tank we had. It wasn't fun... we did the blackout method, covered the sides and top with cardboard and made the tank totally dark for like 2 to 3 days-a week, no lights, we peeked in from time to time to make sure everyone was still good, fed a small amount of flake. We won the battle but eventually tore that down anyway.