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05-22-2010, 12:02 AM
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Don't quit, then the Dino's win
 . Like Christy posted they have to be one of the most irritating ordeals you can go through in a reef tank, I would take her advice and eliminate the sand bed.
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05-22-2010, 12:09 AM
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At this point I would be worried about spreading the dinos to the temporary tank. I remove all corals from the plugs and expoxy them directly on live rock so it is not easy to remove the corals. I've actually been considering that but the way the corals are encrusted it would not work very well.
I don't think it is the sandbed as I have syphoned it monthly. Last edited by Werbo; 05-22-2010 at 12:31 AM.
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05-22-2010, 12:21 AM
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I didn't think the sandbed was the problem either, I only removed it as I was at my wits end and it was suggested first that I change from a "coarse" sandbed to a "sugar" sandbed. When this didn't solve the problem and it was suggested that I remove the sandbed altogether as that seemed to be the "fad" at the time, or at least the topic of major controversy (no sandbed, my god! what are they thinking?). At this point I had tried everything else, all my corals were dead and I was ready to chuck the whole thing, I had nothing to lose so I went for it.
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05-22-2010, 12:29 AM
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Something is feeding the dino's. Maybe it isn't silicates. Maybe it is (as Rob thinks). Silicate reading and TDS today was very low for my RO. Same with my display tank.
Hospital tank is something I have been considering. At this point some sps are in pretty bad shape. This is due to the extended blackouts and shorter photoperiod. Many corals are browning out. Most sps are still doing fine. I have 3 sps that are slowly fading to white with color only on the tips (base is bleached). This began before the dino outbreak probably due to such low phosphates/nirates.
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05-22-2010, 12:51 AM
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What type of fish do you have and what sort of feeding regime are we talking about?
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05-22-2010, 12:57 AM
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120G tank
3 young tangs, 3 wrasses and 2 small percs. Spectrum pellets daily (small pinch), nori 3-4 times per week and frozen food 2x week (1/2 a cube). Definetely not overfeeding - if anything I'm under feeding.
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#7
05-22-2010, 02:50 AM
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I would suggest running a few pads of Polyfilter, the Poly pads to adsorb certain forms of silicates that will not show on the standard home test kit. "Poly-Filter can sorb polymeric silicates . Collodial silicates exist in a flux state with a percentage of the particles sticking to each other and organic compounds or complex inorganic compounds which helps form the complex polymeric silicates. As the collodial silicates are converted over to polymeric silicates they are sorbed by Poly-Filter."
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