Questions About Dinos

redstorm6 · 07/15/2006, 11:00 PM

I'm am about to throw in the towel against this plague that is dinos. I have tried everything that has been posted on RC. I've tried lights out for 2 days, massive water changes, no water changes, raising the PH, raising and lowering the salinity to no avail. I have decided to give up and start up another tank. I will be setting the LR out in the South Carolina sun to bake for a month ( burn in hell dinos!) This stuff is awful. I have been running phosban for 4 months and my phosphates are so low I haven't cleaned the glass in 2 weeks. I also do not feed the tank as there are no fish in it. Nitrates are 10-20 ppm.

My issue is I have a lot of very nice SPS corals that I would like to transfer to the new tank. However, I do not wish to transfer the dinos with them and know they can hitchhike via cysts, etc. Do you all think if I dipped the corals in Iodine or some other coral dip solution that I could transfer the corals and kill the dinos? Any input is welcome.

Thanks,
Chris

redstorm6 · 07/16/2006, 10:31 AM

*bump*

JmLee · 07/16/2006, 10:49 AM

If your conditions are right, i find that dinos will eventually phase out. This is only if your conditions are right and from your first post it sounds like your parameters are good and you are doing all the right things. I honestly would just keep up the water changes, keep a short photo period, and continue with aggressive skimming. Also remember that syphoning helps as well. Just be patient, it may be a long ride untell its over. Also this is from my personal experience, and changing tanks may not help out at all. wouldnt you hate it if you spent all that money and time changing tanks and the dino comes back?. This is why i suggest keeping the routine and waiting it out.

07/15/2006, 11:00 PM	#1
redstorm6 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Columbia, South Carolina Posts: 21	Questions About Dinos I'm am about to throw in the towel against this plague that is dinos. I have tried everything that has been posted on RC. I've tried lights out for 2 days, massive water changes, no water changes, raising the PH, raising and lowering the salinity to no avail. I have decided to give up and start up another tank. I will be setting the LR out in the South Carolina sun to bake for a month ( burn in hell dinos!) This stuff is awful. I have been running phosban for 4 months and my phosphates are so low I haven't cleaned the glass in 2 weeks. I also do not feed the tank as there are no fish in it. Nitrates are 10-20 ppm. My issue is I have a lot of very nice SPS corals that I would like to transfer to the new tank. However, I do not wish to transfer the dinos with them and know they can hitchhike via cysts, etc. Do you all think if I dipped the corals in Iodine or some other coral dip solution that I could transfer the corals and kill the dinos? Any input is welcome. Thanks, Chris __________________ Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Current Tank Info: 30 Gal. Cube w/ 4 x 54 TEK Light

07/16/2006, 10:31 AM	#2
redstorm6 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Columbia, South Carolina Posts: 21	anyone? bump __________________ Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Current Tank Info: 30 Gal. Cube w/ 4 x 54 TEK Light

07/16/2006, 10:49 AM	#3
JmLee Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hohensfels, Germany Posts: 1,545	If your conditions are right, i find that dinos will eventually phase out. This is only if your conditions are right and from your first post it sounds like your parameters are good and you are doing all the right things. I honestly would just keep up the water changes, keep a short photo period, and continue with aggressive skimming. Also remember that syphoning helps as well. Just be patient, it may be a long ride untell its over. Also this is from my personal experience, and changing tanks may not help out at all. wouldnt you hate it if you spent all that money and time changing tanks and the dino comes back?. This is why i suggest keeping the routine and waiting it out.