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post #1 of 27
4/6/11 at 6:24pm
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I have dino! What do I do to get rid of it?

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post #2 of 27
4/6/11 at 6:44pm
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post #3 of 27
4/6/11 at 6:47pm

Are you sure it's dino?  Could be cyano.

 

Siphon out whatever you see.  What are your parameters? 

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post #4 of 27
4/6/11 at 6:50pm

How about some pictures, and let's see what you have

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post #5 of 27
4/6/11 at 6:51pm

uhhh pics above meowzer....although i have no idea wat gemmys talkin about...lol im googling as i write this

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post #6 of 27
4/6/11 at 6:53pm

That looks like cyano

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post #7 of 27
4/6/11 at 6:53pm

Good luck, Gemmy. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1620464 

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post #8 of 27
4/6/11 at 6:55pm

Stupid double post, sorry.

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post #9 of 27
4/6/11 at 7:08pm
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Parameters:

PH: 8.0

Ammonia: Undetectable

Nitrite: 0

Nitrate: <10

Phosphate: Undetectable

Cal: 440

 

 

Lights: 250 watt 14k on for about 6-7 hours, pc on for about 10-12 hours

 

Feeding: Feed one cube every other day.

 

I have 4 powerheads and have great flow throughout the tank (did the fishing line trick checking for dead spots). I siphon the stuff daily and it gets me nowhere. The stuff seems to be more visible when the halides are on.

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post #10 of 27
4/6/11 at 7:18pm

YUP   cyano......It can be beat though.....more frequent w/c's....lessen the time your lights are on, siphon daily......rinse food

 

have you checked your phosphates?

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post #11 of 27
4/6/11 at 7:28pm
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Originally Posted by meowzer View Post

YUP   cyano......It can be beat though.....more frequent w/c's....lessen the time your lights are on, siphon daily......rinse food

 

have you checked your phosphates?



I don't think it is cyano. It is snotty looking and I have not found an image of cyano that looks like mine. I do weekly water changes, rinse my foods and have zero phosphates. I feed every other day about one cube (a little goes to my 2nd tank).shrug.gif

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post #12 of 27
4/6/11 at 7:32pm

Well I seem to be wrong a lot lately.....LOL....but it looks reddish in the zoas......

 

 

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post #13 of 27
4/6/11 at 7:33pm

Cyano can be eating the nitrates and phosphates and that is why you are getting low/no reading.

 

Do what Meowzer said, plus consider feeding half a cube every day as opposed to 1 whole cube every other day. 

You will be feeding the same amount, but there will be less leftover per feeding. 

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post #14 of 27
4/6/11 at 7:36pm
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Well I seem to be wrong a lot lately.....LOL....but it looks reddish in the zoas......

 

 



It's brown. That is my lovely camera.

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post #15 of 27
4/7/11 at 1:27pm
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Right now I just have my PC's on (they have been on for 2 hours) and the zoas have no visible slime/snot on them. Now, I notice the substance when my halides are on. 

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post #16 of 27
4/7/11 at 1:32pm
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Right now I just have my PC's on (they have been on for 2 hours) and the zoas have no visible slime/snot on them. Now, I notice the substance when my halides are on. 



I'm still thinking cyano

I get little blotches of cyano late in the afternoon in the 225G after the MH lights have been on (not when just T5's are on)

 

I am hoping when I get home there is no new growth of that stuff I saw yesterday :(    There was none this morning anyways

 

 

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post #17 of 27
4/7/11 at 1:42pm
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I just don't know what to do. I use distilled water. I rinse my foods (will try feeding half a cube). I will just be running my PC's for 6 hours and halides for 4. I will do water changes twice a week. I might add another canister filter. I'm also going to order my vortech's this weekend. I think I'll do one mp10 and one mp40 (that is what vortech recommends for my tank).

 

Oh, and I try to siphon it out every day.

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post #18 of 27
4/7/11 at 2:40pm
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Originally Posted by Gemmy View Post

I just don't know what to do. I use distilled water. I rinse my foods (will try feeding half a cube). I will just be running my PC's for 6 hours and halides for 4. I will do water changes twice a week. I might add another canister filter. I'm also going to order my vortech's this weekend. I think I'll do one mp10 and one mp40 (that is what vortech recommends for my tank).

 

Oh, and I try to siphon it out every day.


distilled water still has stuff you dont want to be putting in your tank. as for your lights, keeping them on at all will help continue to fuel dino or cyano. your tank would be fine lights out and covered from light for a couple of days
 

 

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post #19 of 27
4/7/11 at 2:49pm
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What exactly does distilled water have that I don't want in my tank?

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post #20 of 27
4/7/11 at 2:51pm

is there alot of air bubbles when the lights are on

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