How fast can you defeat Dinoflagellates? (Amphidinium)
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- This is the first week, day-by-day battling dinoflagellates (Amphidinium). We've made good progress, but let me know what proposals you have to fight them and what you think about my approach
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• 6 Month Status, All go...
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Just from experience with new tanks. It is easier to dial back on the lights when you are going through the “ugly phase” with a tank as big as yours it's almost easier to induce beneficial bacteria into the tank.
@DontCare3000 it is a good point, I just don't know what to start dosing again... I was dosing
aquaforest.eu/en/product/af-life-source/
microbelift.com/product/special-blend/
microbelift.com/product/nite-out-ii-2/
for the first 3 months of the tank...
Then this hit, ua-cam.com/video/oUuX_UZl8ok/v-deo.html
and I stopped.
But yeah, Dino's I am contemplating dosing bacteria again, just haven't decided what yet, do you have any recommendations?
@@peterreef, I used MicroBacter7 - Complete Bioculture by Brightwell Aquatics, and AF NitraPhos Minus. These two saved me time and money.
Thanks for sharing this, going through the same right now. Question: Do you gravel into a filter sock or something to reuse waTer or is it new water?
@daniel-saltyinvestments984 Thanks!
I could only find filter socks for aquarium with 100 micron as smallest. Do I get the size of the protist correctly it is 30 micron, so I don't think filter sock will do the trick.
I found a filter cartridge for tap water that does 20 micron, and this one I fitted to PVC and a return pump, by this I could filter the water before returning to aquarium... but.... I am not sure it is the smartest Daniel... I haven't figured the smartest just yet.. but..
- This protist is quite heavy, quite quickly it goes to the bottom of the reservoir that I sucked out to... so, if I let it sit for 24h with a tiny circulation pump to agitate the surface only, I gently just pour back 90% of the water in another bucket and dispose the bottom 10%.. I think this removes 98% of Dinos..
- it being quite heavy, by comparison, instead of gravel cleaning, if I just suck out the top layer of gravel after full light for a 6h or so... I am extracting a lot more Dino, like, 4x. This gravel I could rinse quite massively out of Dino.. but at this stage, not took it back in.
Let me talk some more of my observations in next clip I am preparing
I would wonder if there is everything ok with for example filtration, with filtration media, because searching many elements and dosing others not finding real basic reason it becomes path in wrong direction. Maybe it's sand. For me maybe sth is incorrect not proper thing in this aquarium and maybe this is a reason or I'm wrong.
Hej. Thanks! Please elaborate your ideas further. Please let me know what you think is wrong in the approach.
I think you are on to something.. The basis of my analysis is that I've "successfully" managed to create conditions for this protist to thrive in my sand. If I study its behavior, it seems to be propagating to the sand surface during day time, indicating it is photosyntetic, during night time it is not there. As I carry a 55W UV filter on the tank, and it seems not to affect this protist, I think that the protist is not in the water column, but rather propagate down in the sand... I would suspect it is climbing down the sand bed to collect nutrients. Accepting this as a fact, the decisions I've made has been to favor other microorganisms, hoping that the battle field on the sand bed change to favor bacteria, green plankton and diatomic algaes.
Definetly you are correct with the sand being a problem, I think the sand variant I selected favor this protist. It can navigate down easily to extract nutrients.
@@peterreef I don't have your knowledge, I only feel from my experience with small marine aquarium that sth is wrong with basic things that are put in the aquarium that's what I suppose but I may be wrong and mistake You. Good luck.
@mateuszx17 Thank you for engaging and please continue do so. Your comment sent me in the direction to reflect on 2 items, 1. how much does the specific gravel type favor this Dinoflagellate. 2. Am I over-complicating things. Is there an easier way to combat?
Your comment about simplicity and basic is also relevant. Have you seen this low tech setup I run a year ago?
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Your focus on stuff put in tank makes me a bit curious, I am reefing in Northern Europe, most of the stuff we use in the hobby is food grade to be the minimum, pharmacy grade preferred... Most stuff coming from Germany, but Aqua forest (Polen) has been on the rise. Where are you calling from and what products do you have on the shelf?
@@peterreef I like simplicity. For me and for my skills and money I use simply equipment usually it's fromt China in shops in my country. But if I could afford I would buy from western countries. They are more durable, efficient and long last. I don't have space for skimmer in my reef tank , it's a pity, and I use small sponge with small ceramic media-filter and small china sobo(soebo) up sump filter which I bought from internet because it's not available in shops in my country. Here are only good cascada filters but theirs construction is that sponge is down and difficult to remove for new. Thanks for your interesting. Good luck.
@@mateuszx17 Thanks! Yeah tech-wise I've had good experience with some Chinese makes such as Jebao/Jecod and Kamoer. Furthermore somethimes when you buy European brands such as Aqua Medic or D&D they are quite clearly 1-1 with these makes, but just rebranded.
This tank runs 2 Jebao return pumps, 1 for return and 1 for the manifold. I like that they are speed controlled in a fraction of 1%. Furthermore I am actually running a Jebao Stream pump in the "frag tank"
My philosophy is to put the money in the live-stock, and, sometimes money is better spend in redundancy of tech components, than in one high-price-pump unit.
Like here. If the vital circulation pump of the Jebao fails, I can stop the manifold circuit and take that pump to become circulation pump.. they are identical.
Currently I keep redunancy for all vital tech components except the light... I want to invest in that as well, but haven't done so yet.
Good luck, and happy reefing!