obrien.david.j

No way you've got green hair algae in your tank. I've seen it. You keep it pristine!

Good article, and fun to have a personal reference. I've got a frag of OME I got in 2019 from @Flash21 I'm nursing back to health, after I almost lost the total colony last year (all my fault). Get's direct feeding of reef-roids twice a week and loves it. I'd nocked it down to the a single mouth, total size ~1/8". Amazing how much they grow. Beautiful coral, hooked my wife the first time she saw it in a shop.

nice build. I like the miter cuts on the top 2x4 trim around the tank. Including extending to slightly hide the plumbing.

Email BRS. (or call them) Of you're getting bogus readings... BTW, one of my six month supply orders came in with a single leaking reagent. (box was obviously discolored). Shot a picture to BRS, they had replacement six month supply in the mail the same day. So I got 10 months out of the deal. That's great customer service. (new 6 months + 4 of the 6 month supply from original order)

Congratulations, Looks Good!

Well since you already had the stirrer... that makes it easy. Looking forward to seeing pictures, post re-assembly.

Follow up. I took out the 20L "Infinity Tank" and caught all the peppermint shrimp. Of the original 26, I found 23. Not bad. (this container only shows 21. + one hitch hiker on a rock back into the main tank +1 I found in the next morning) Shrimp have been redistributed. 5 to my frag tank, rest to the main display tank. It's amazing how hard it is to find any of them 18 shrimp in the display tank. I've now found Four of them. But I don't think anyone is eating them. At least they weren't chased nor harassed at all when I put them in the tank. And a clean 20L, ready for some future project.

My input was to plumb the recirc pump like a Ca Reactor (with a little extra internal plumbing). But, still put it on a timer to stir a couple of times a day. Not Continuously.

What steps are you doing first, have you read the Dealing With Dino's pdf yet?

I'm not done, but back in the right tracks. Just need to stay there and keep driving.

I've got effectively the same setup, except it uses an external eheim pump for stirring instead of a magnetic stirrer. You could do the same, without any chopping. Just plumb an eheim drawing from the bottom barb, returning to the top barb. inside the reactor, just attach an elbow to the top barb pointing down and a length of pipe so the outlet is near the white plate at the bottom. FYI, eheim, eheim, eheim. Originally, I used power heads plumbed externally. replaced often. Then replumbed with another brand of external pump, replaced at least yearly. Replumbed in a small eheim - and bingo. I haven't replaced it in ~10 years.

I started replying here, but it was getting long and needed a dedicated thread. My reply to your situation is:

I started this post as a reply to another thread, but decided it could use a dedicated thread all its own. I've been fighting Dinos. 2021 was a rough year, and I'm feeling like it's turned around with help from many others. The story: 1st half of 2021 I couldn't figure out what the ugly snotty stringy stuff was in my tank, and too slow to react. Ended up with Cyano, cleaned up, and ended up with ugly dinos. And it killed vast majority of my corals. I did red slime remover, twice, in the process - which Did kill the cyano. 2nd half of 2021 thanks to @SuncrestReef and his microscope, I started figuring out what I had. I'd done a few rounds of dr tim's waste away & refresh, (with 5day dark cycle) and this helped. But I wasn't under control. Gone for a while, back in a month, ... Lots of research and some ahha moments at the club meeting. Summary of what to do about Dino's: join the "Mack's reef Dinoflagellates support group!" on facebook goto "Files" on the top row and download "Dealing With Dinos" (currently Rev G - published Feb 2022) read it, top to bottom. Think about it, read it again. If nothing else, just read the index. It covers chemistry, identification, bacteria, phyto, copeopds, UV, hydrogen peroxide, silica dosing, blackouts, ... All methods I'd read about in different forums, in one place. Here's my story; I let Nitrate and Phosphate crash, multiple times. Like absolute zero. Wasn't testing, At All. I've been testing daily/every other day, and dosing NeoPhos and NeoNitrate when needed Using Hanna HI782 and HI736 I let my elements get out of whack. (like zero iodine, and aluminum overload). and fixed it. started the Moonshiners Reef system https://www.reefmoonshiners.com/ (thanks @Shar_Zard) which means an ICP test -> Excel sheet to interpret results -> dosing elements to "correct" I corrected only the Seriously Depleted items, and found my super old brightwell dimpled brick/bio block was leaching aluminum (removed) Since starting, I've now moved to just ~correcting everything it suggests. it's easier for me. (yes, other systems exist like this) Decided my good bacteria had taken a crash, so have been doing weekly/multiple times a week bio additives Microbacter7 Probio biodigest Added a big UV sterilizer for the first time (kills half the species of Dinos - specifically, the type that looks like brown snot, not the type that makes gravel brown) 110W to my ~350gallon setup Bought a microscope on amazon so I could figure out what species I had, and track their growth or reduction Swift SW350T, with the handiest addition there is... Swift Microscope Lens Adapter, Smartphone Camera Adapter Mount, Microscope Accessory (Fits 28mm Eyepieces) Section 4 of dealing with Dino's has pictures to ID what type of Dino you have, and how to deal with them I'm down to to mostly Large Cell Amphidiniums (LCA), which means brown on top of my gravel. Least Toxic, hardest to get rid of. treatment so far has been silica dosing, to encourage a Diatom bloom. I can see the growth on the microscope. Including regular testing with Hanna HI705 I've been at this last step since Jan 9th. I see a reduction, dino's are now a pest, not a plague. Hard learned lessons zero nitrate and phosphate is simply bad. (for me) I was running them "low", not monitoring, and they were easily bottoming out amino acid based additives are apparently rocket fuel for dinos. stopped those Iron additives apparently encourage dinos. stopped these (I don't have a fuge with macro algae to consume this additive) Tank is back up and running, corals growing, I'm living with brown gravel and would like it to reduce in time. I had an aptasia problem, now addressed. So am now starting adding Phyto, and I'd like to add Tisbe pods (who are the only species seen eating diatoms) Last hard lesson - getting rid of LCA takes a long time. But that's okay because... Getting everything else under control has gotten my tank back on the right track. (In this pict from my gravel, circle or ovals are Dino's, grains of rice are diatoms)

Victim 8, Tenth Day (Weds) Victim 9, Seventh Day (Weds) It's Over - SUCCESS No more visible Aptasia. Rocks have all been moved back to the display tank. It's amazing to be Aptasia Free (for now) Aptasia always seem to come back, Somehow. But I can now move into maint mode. Summary: 26 Peppermint Shrimp January 13 - March 9, 2022 <-- basically two months Nine batches of rock cycled through isolated tank, No Food, lights off Most batches kept 6 days, last few batches kept longer The deeper the Aptasia, the longer the shrimp needed with them Some final photos

I'll ping him

I stopped by Tuesday, after the original post. Beautifully setup tank. Picked up a few misc pieces.

No experience with Atlantiks, am currently running a fleet of XR30 pro's, mostly Gen4 some Gen3s. They're doing fine for me. BUT, I really like the radion integration with Neptune. Next time I change lights, it's not a given I buy radions - because of abandoning WXM control.

I've seen this tank/stand in person recently. it's a nice looking setup

Victim 8, Ninth Morning (Tues) Victim 9, Sixth Morning (Tues) No pictures for a few days, because nothing was visible. Based on prior learnings, leave the rocks in the tank a few days after last visible Aptasia. Let the Shrimp Scour! Today == SURPRISE! There's a big one Hiding! This is the Ninth Morning for Victim rock 8 with the shrimp. Using a flashlight, I found a mature Aptasia down deep at the base of the Red Planet acro. What do you do, hit it with Reef Delete! 9 days with >20 hungry shrimp, and they still hide in the deeper cracks. Grr

Finger food!

I'll be there. Just one.

Victim 8, Sixth Morning (Sat) <-- nothing visible going on Victim 9, Third Morning (Sat) <-- Last Rock needing cleaning! Cockroaches! It's amazing how many shrimp are on each rock when I sneak into the tank room and turn on the lights to take these morning pictures. But they're as fast as cockroaches scurrying away from the light. Today I snapped a pict as fast as I could. Managed to catch four of them. There was easily twice that many at first. You can see them at the bottom, after climbing down and on their way back into the shadows.

Victim 8, Fifth Morning (Fri) <-- now boring, staying so shrimp can clean anything remaining Victim 9, Second Morning (Fri) <-- Last Rock needing cleaning! Amazing how fast Aptasia are no longer visible. But obviously, this rock is still very interesting to the shrimp

SPECIAL DAY! Victim 8, Fourth Morning (Thurs) Victim 9, First Morning (Thurs) <-- Last Rock needing cleaning! History has shown each rock needs a few more days after the last Aptasia is no longer visible. Victim 8 stays in the shrimp tank. Milestone day, Last Rock from the display tank needing cleaning Also Fits in the shrimp tank. Moved Victim 9 in ~7pm last night. By ~7am this morning, two main gut piles are already visible! Approx one week from now, this exercise will sunset. Victim 9 - The Last Rock Victim 8, looking clean

Victim 8, Third Morning (Weds) Consumption continues. Nothing else interesting today.