Since the event I haven't made any other video, this could be the last episode. But, every time you get down, you stand up and I trust the force of nature. If you still enjoy my videos please press that Like (or Dislike) button and comment, I'm avoiding algorithm tricks and simply rely on your enjoyment of my art. Showing you the darker side opens me to criticism and affects my channel, It's a side that most people would hide, but I will always remain transparent even if it cost me views. Making some of those videos takes a lot of hours and effort and I want to slowly show a new vision, new way, be original and different, but this takes a lot of time, and thanks to you to all my supporters on Patreon! Like always, more to come, whatever the form it will take :) - Nic
Always ups and down’s in this hobby. Many battles to be had with various unwanted organisms. Love the videos and the tank. It’s just another small battle of many I am sure.
Every one of the problems was self inflicted. Corals are living things, not decorative toys to be moved around like that. Moving corals stresses them as you have seen.
I have a 20 gallon nano cube that I rushed the aquascape initially and never really liked the look of it since. When I saw his video I thought to myself, wow I didn't know you could just move corals around and rearrange the tank whenever like that, I want to do it too mine too but now I have second thoughts. :l
I just found your channel through Inappropriate Reefer's colab video yesterday and I've been bingeing all your videos ever since! Your reef photography is some of the most beautiful I've ever seen. The little details of life in a reef are what I love best about this hobby, and you capture them with such a gentle hand. I'm learning a lot about what to do with my (very upset) 20 gal from you, and getting a great experience at the same time. I hope 2021 brings you the success you deserve!
Thanks for sharing even though I just found your channel I very much enjoy your channel. I think most reefers can relate especially the longer your in the hobby the more things can go wrong. Keep your head up. This was a very rough year for myself our 75 gallon mixed reef we had since I was a toddler crashed loseing corals you cant even get any more! On top of that a 30 gallon broke in my room onto the carpet for no reason. We have no control of anything in life only awareness with the ability to redirect. Hopefully you don’t let this setback hold you down. Amazing tank and really great video shots and editing! Looking forward to new ones in the future!
You’ve become one of my favorite reef tank channels. Videos are super informative and well produced. We all hit these these bumps in the road in this hobby. We take the good and the bad.
I’m glad you share all your experiences. It really helps your reefing viewers. Thanks from all of us! I’m sorry to see Dinos invasion. I’ve battled them in the past. Dinos are very opportunistic. I suppose you lost a big population of good bacteria (which constantly competes with Dinos and Cyano from growing out of proportion) when the rocks were out of water for long duration. The good bacteria don’t survive too long out of water. Also, stirring the sand bed must have released a lot nutrients in the water. And with fewer good bacteria in there, Dinos went all out to grab the free meal. Next time try doing one rock at a time and a few weeks apart. And instead of stirring the sand bed, vacuum it as part of water change. However, for now, I was able to fight Dinos by running branded UV Sterilizer of right size in closed loop with inlet and outlet, both in the display. And turn off the lights for two days while running the UV. This will cause them to release from the rocks and sand, consequently getting sterilized. Repeat if necessary after a few days. And when they’re gone, remove the UV and add good bacteria like Microbacter 7 or Microbacter Clean. These worked for me. There are other brands too but I don’t know how good they are. Good luck! Hope to see you back with more nice videos.
Hey buddy, sorry to see this. But have faith, as reefer for 16years this happened whenever I moved. I just changed the way I worked on my rock with coral on it. Few tips, live rock has sponges that are extremely sensitive to air. The sponge will start to die the longer it’s exposed. This will cause a huge nitrate spike. Plus the lungs of your tank basically got pneumonia. The sponges in the rock need to rebuild. So I bought myself a 3 gallon clear rectangular tub shallow. Fill it with the existing tank water. I do all of my propagation and rock structuring with in the tub. Most corals are sensitive to the air as well the, LSPs are not forgiving to air exposure. Keeping them submerged keeps the tissues of the coral less stressed. Whenever this kind of stress happens to me I just keep patient, and do frequent water changes. There’s a chance! I’ve had coral almost kicking the bucket this way and somehow with TLC they come back. The micro algae situation Yellow Tang and emerald crabs they love that stuff! I got a huge bloom of that stuff in my tank, bought a baby yellow tang gone in 2 days. The crab gets deep in the rock to remove the rest. Best of luck, hope my recommendations help!
That's why I rarely lift entire established rocks out of the tank. Esp not for that long. When something wrong does start to happen though, I do constant water changes, like 2-3 times a day in order to dilute any toxin or die off. While adding lots of carbon, and doing lots of constant filter cleaning. I would suggest setting up a quarantine tank for items that could possibly nuke your tank. Do it even if you're not sure. It's better to be safe
My whole family loves you’re video so much, specially my daughter. Reef hobbie some times really make you crazy. But one thing I say it’s really beautiful hobby never ever stop, it’s our humble request.
Get an all-in-one 9 watt uv filter and your dinos are done in two days. Then take it out. Quit messing with the tank! Let it evolve. NPS corals in a tank that small are hard to keep without a huge nitrate issue. Good luck. Beautiful tank.
@@AquaSplendor I had bad dinos in my pico. As bad as yours. Got a Green Killing Machine for $50 and it started clearing up immediately. Add water changes and some SmartStart Complete bacteria dosing and you're back in no time. Next up: hair algae. That one can be really tough, but you already have a lot of good corals with good bacteria so you just might skip that plague.
As soon as you disturbed the sand and I saw the white strings I knew they were coming. Luckily those appear to be Ostreopsis and an adequately sized UV sterilizer plumbed straight into the display will clear them up in no time.
For anyone watching this is not the way to do tank maintenance. go watch a legit video from Bulk reef supply. You never want to just stir you sandbed and fill you system with all that excess poop and nutrients, He caused his dino problem
Before making suggestions, you have to understand the context and the environment, the living creature and the maintenance. You can't make suggestions like this without knowing anything. Just watch the next video...
i like the way your videos making, it tells story and always enjoyable to watch, pls keep producing, make a new start..i believe there is a lesson learned from this incident..keep reefing ✌️
I am a noob, but a saying i've heard over and over that everyone seems to agree with is: "Nothing good happens in this hobby quickly", which makes me wonder: wouldn't it be better to do this kind of thing slowly over time? Wouldn't it be better to cut back one coral, let everything settle for a week or two, then frag the next, etc.?
I just had a diano apocalypse in my 2 gallon pico with a hammerhead coral one mushroom coral an acan and a zoanthyd along with a Duncan coral. It took me 1 month to develop them and it took me 3 months to fight them and finally suppress them in my system. It was my nitrates. I knew I had a low nutrient system so I kept feeding the tank to try to bring up my nitrates and I’d would only build phosphates. And I was breaking down the tank every weekend to get rid of the diano until it grew back. And then finally I got my hands on some sodium nitrite and was able to bring my nitrate levels back up and the diano slowly went away
As a fellow reefer I think this is a big mistake. In the beginning I also kept moving things around trying to make every single coral as happy as possible. Result, they would close up and sometimes even die from the stress of being manipulated so much. In the end, nature can’t really be controlled in such detail, it’s better to let it do its thing.
Hi. I just randomly came by this video of yours and I would like to say it's sadly beautiful. I'm new to the hobby and because of that I have yet dared to try saltwater reef tank as it is known to be alot harder than freshwater. It is very sad to see all this trouble you are going through. Your tank is beautiful. This is a great video to warn people of what bad could happen. I hope things will get better for you. Wish you the best.
I just returned home from a week of vacation and my tank was a mess also. I’ve been battling some algae and so I added two big Mexican turbos snails. When I got home one of the turbos had knocked my trumpet coral onto my acan colony, needless to say the acans are completely unscathed and I have a half dead trumpet. To makes matters worse my ato had stopped working for about 48 hours that supplies my tank with kalk and fresh water. I suppose things could be worse. Sorry for your losses, I know the feeling. Thanks for sharing!
@@AquaSplendor Yes, it seems like some sort of domino effect that takes place. I had a very anxious feeling all week and I guess it was for good reason. Sorry about your tank, hopefully you will persevere.
this is great because most youtubers only show theirs tanks when they look good, but the reality is saltwater tanks don't look good every moment of the day. Ppl show clips of the tanks with all the coral open and happy but thats noy how it looks all the time. Also, epic editing
I faught what I thought was a losing battle with dinos. Lost a lot of high end acros. Faught the good fight. I was about to shut down my 170 gallon tank and start over as I could not see any end in sight. Months of blowing off rocks corals, changing filter shocks several times a day. Only to wake up and see them back in larger and larger numbers. Heart breaking. Then by chance I ran into someone special. Someone who changed everything for me and turned my tank around. This person worked at the NC aquarium and was a marine biologist. What he told me the best way to get rid of dinos is temperature. Slowly over the next month raise your tank temp to 83 to 84 degrees. DO NOT GO OVER 84. Let it sit for 3-4 days at 84 and the dinos will die off. I was skeptical at first took me another 3 weeks to try it. Over the next month I went from 78 to 84. Started noticing a slight reduction in the density of the dinos. Yes the corals we un happy but still alive. After 4 days I woke up and there was no eveadance of the dinos any more. Then over the next month i slow brought it back down. He also suggested leaving the tank at 80 degrees. Which i split the difference and now keep it at 79.5. But I have never seen another dino in my tank. That was two years ago. I did loose a few corals during that process but they were all ready stressed out from the dinos so there probably wasn't anything I could have done to save them anyway. I'm not suggesting you try this only wanted to share my experience with my own journey. And give you something to think about. Good luck happy reefing
Thank you for sharing this, I've heard great success with the raise of temperature indeed, and my aquarium should have no problem with this, I might try this eventually, thank you!
I'm currently fighting an extreme case of Dinos at the moment. Its been ongoing for 3 months. Just came back from a 10 day vacation and almost cried. Don't give up. We can beat it!!! :)
@@AquaSplendor I've figured out why your tank is so bad........ You've spent more time making this video than the upkeep of the tank. Had you kept the up keep of the tank healthy, you would not have the time to make this video ......... The video is good 🤣 Lol.
I just got Done with a battle against Coolia dinos. It was a pain for several months. Beat it with a combination of no water changes, dosing Phyto, nitrates and phosphates and UV. Then i got cyano on top of the dinos. Even after getting my nutrients up it didn't go away. I added new sand (since i had vaccummed so much out already) and both magically disappeared
Raise your nitrates and phosphates, allow other organisms to be able to compete for nutrients. Algae might grow but that's good competition against dinoflagellates. Dose bacterial cultures (microbacter 7 or PNSB). Consider UV and blackout if it's the type of dino that goes into the water column at lights out. The main main thing is really just not letting your nitrates and phosphates hit 0 or near 0 in my experience. The big fragging event and taking rock out of water might have disrupted your bacterial population and added nutrients at the same time. Edit: In short don't let nitrates/phosphates bottom out or allow/trigger a big die-off of the established ecosystem and trigger an ecological succession event because dinos seem to be great pioneer species under those circumstances.
That's a shame for such a beautiful tank. I had a long battle with dinoflagellates recently and I solved it by running the temp higher at 82⁰f and I was dosing 1ml per 10 gallon of hydrogen peroxide at night. Also I let the tank get dirty and let the algae out compete it. Trouble is now I have hair algae everywhere.
I had a similar treatment, and follow up algae problem. In my 30 gallon, I added a tuxedo urchin which fixed things up over the course of a few months. I’ve used Sea hares in the past, except they work too well and you will have to rehome them wuicjly
Dinos suck. I just won my two week battle with it. If you would like to know what i did let me know! I love how you are showing all the steps ugly and good.
I crashed my tank and killed all of my corals except for my myshrooms, Kenya tree, xenia and bubbletip. I always get water from my LPS. I tested water before doing water changes for the first year and then stopped. A new employee on his first day alone had to mix up salt water. I didn't test and did a water change about 20%. By the next day most of my coral were dead. It was so disheartening. My tank went from full and alive to barren over night. But I learned my lesson. Make my own water and test eveytime.
I tried uv blackouts antibiotics increase nutrients pods phytoplankton decrease nutrients regime after regime and it beat me lol even after I'd under microscope
Im not a big fan of interfering with the natural progress by adding all kinds of products and removing the corals to give them a ´´cleaning´´ ,In my experience the best way to keep your tank stabile is by just let nature do its thing and you do small water changes ever week and cleaning the filters and stuff,Corals love to have stabile water parameters, If thats in balance you will have the best result
When you took the rocks out you killed off a large portion of your good bacteria which enabled the dino take hold. I would start dosing bacteria and pods asap. I did something similar by taking my rocks out to move my tanks location and caused a dino bloom. I then bought a live rock from a 5+ year old reef, dosed bacteria, and pods all to my tank. I beat my dino in under 2 weeks with these steps.
@@AquaSplendor yeah after trying a uv sterilizer, adding bacteria, 3 day blackouts, manual removal, hydrogen peroxide, and dino x. I gave up and did a 2 week black out lol. I lost a few corals but my tank is doing really well now!
I think a consistent water change is needed till it corrects. Captain hindsight here.. but you did too much at once. Stressed everything on a small system. And the small water volume couldn’t handle that level of stress enzymes etc given off of the corals. Consistent water 10-30% a day change will lower the bad enzymes and metabolites etc. wish you and your tank the best! Appreciate the honesty giving people a chance to learn.
To be honest as a rule I don't put my bare hands in my tank our hand are full of harmful bactearia even to us so gloves on isn't there a natural critter for Dino's I have never had them but I have 20 astrea spiny snails black foot snails and 6 conch in a 4ft
I would say that you discovered the biggest problem with nano tanks, it doesn't take much to completely disrupt the balance! But don't make this your exit from the hobby, instead show us all how you bounce back from this! As always your videos are top notch !
I suspect that palythoa toxins nuked your tank. The dinos are hard to fight.... let your nitrates build up to 10ppm and dose bacteria microbelift special blend..... it will help.
Two days blackout and then sucked all up once u see it coming back and keep repeating it every other day and add carbon to remove all the toxins in the water u be good and try to keep all your parameters were they need to be
Watching this right after I found out my other clown was also killed by a pistol shrimp... 2 clowns and 2 dalmon damsels gone thanks to it. On top of thst my LT anemone died due to a bad water reaction... All in 1 months time Seriously fuck this hobby
@@AquaSplendor I am in Sri Lanka, so is from the indian ocean, its not that big, brown in colour. He keeps hiding inside the rock so cant see. Now I'm trying to trap him in a bottle... Once i sort out this issue i will restart the tank properly... this hobby hits you hard sometimes man...
It's more scary when it's in the air than "liquid", but the real reason no glove is because of the camera, I want to make sure my hands are not dirty and with gloves, I can't always tell.
Since the event I haven't made any other video, this could be the last episode. But, every time you get down, you stand up and I trust the force of nature.
If you still enjoy my videos please press that Like (or Dislike) button and comment, I'm avoiding algorithm tricks and simply rely on your enjoyment of my art.
Showing you the darker side opens me to criticism and affects my channel, It's a side that most people would hide, but I will always remain transparent even if it cost me views.
Making some of those videos takes a lot of hours and effort and I want to slowly show a new vision, new way, be original and different, but this takes a lot of time, and thanks to you to all my supporters on Patreon!
Like always, more to come, whatever the form it will take :)
- Nic
I love all ur videos. They help me a lot in setting up my tank. We will wait till u wanna back. Ur video is always great for me.
Don't get down, dinos are a pain but can be beat. Try a 4 day blackout, complete blackout, then a good sand cleaning. Bring the lights back slowly.
Always ups and down’s in this hobby. Many battles to be had with various unwanted organisms. Love the videos and the tank. It’s just another small battle of many I am sure.
Everything settles at some point unless you give up. It will be OK and get better!
@@deebKen never give up!
Every one of the problems was self inflicted. Corals are living things, not decorative toys to be moved around like that. Moving corals stresses them as you have seen.
I have a 20 gallon nano cube that I rushed the aquascape initially and never really liked the look of it since. When I saw his video I thought to myself, wow I didn't know you could just move corals around and rearrange the tank whenever like that, I want to do it too mine too but now I have second thoughts. :l
I just found your channel through Inappropriate Reefer's colab video yesterday and I've been bingeing all your videos ever since! Your reef photography is some of the most beautiful I've ever seen. The little details of life in a reef are what I love best about this hobby, and you capture them with such a gentle hand. I'm learning a lot about what to do with my (very upset) 20 gal from you, and getting a great experience at the same time. I hope 2021 brings you the success you deserve!
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks for sharing even though I just found your channel I very much enjoy your channel. I think most reefers can relate especially the longer your in the hobby the more things can go wrong. Keep your head up. This was a very rough year for myself our 75 gallon mixed reef we had since I was a toddler crashed loseing corals you cant even get any more! On top of that a 30 gallon broke in my room onto the carpet for no reason. We have no control of anything in life only awareness with the ability to redirect. Hopefully you don’t let this setback hold you down. Amazing tank and really great video shots and editing! Looking forward to new ones in the future!
Sorry for the coral and 30g, that must be terrifying.
ps: Have you watch the full playlist?
You’ve become one of my favorite reef tank channels. Videos are super informative and well produced. We all hit these these bumps in the road in this hobby. We take the good and the bad.
Thank you very much, Doug, #NeverGiveUp
Daaaamn
It's one of the hard side of this hobby... but sometimes, it's benefic to improve our maintenance
Courage mon ami :)
For the past days I have been having the videos on my TV just rolling and the music choice is fantastic.
😀
Man I love your videos they're so relaxing, glad I got into the hobby :)
😃
Please don’t give up, your videos are simply stunning! I have faith that nature will turn things around.....with your help 👍🏻👌🏻🤩
I’m glad you share all your experiences. It really helps your reefing viewers. Thanks from all of us!
I’m sorry to see Dinos invasion. I’ve battled them in the past. Dinos are very opportunistic. I suppose you lost a big population of good bacteria (which constantly competes with Dinos and Cyano from growing out of proportion) when the rocks were out of water for long duration. The good bacteria don’t survive too long out of water. Also, stirring the sand bed must have released a lot nutrients in the water. And with fewer good bacteria in there, Dinos went all out to grab the free meal.
Next time try doing one rock at a time and a few weeks apart. And instead of stirring the sand bed, vacuum it as part of water change.
However, for now, I was able to fight Dinos by running branded UV Sterilizer of right size in closed loop with inlet and outlet, both in the display. And turn off the lights for two days while running the UV. This will cause them to release from the rocks and sand, consequently getting sterilized. Repeat if necessary after a few days. And when they’re gone, remove the UV and add good bacteria like Microbacter 7 or Microbacter Clean. These worked for me. There are other brands too but I don’t know how good they are.
Good luck! Hope to see you back with more nice videos.
You bring a good point by covering, some of them free floats
Hey buddy, sorry to see this. But have faith, as reefer for 16years this happened whenever I moved. I just changed the way I worked on my rock with coral on it. Few tips, live rock has sponges that are extremely sensitive to air. The sponge will start to die the longer it’s exposed. This will cause a huge nitrate spike. Plus the lungs of your tank basically got pneumonia. The sponges in the rock need to rebuild. So I bought myself a 3 gallon clear rectangular tub shallow. Fill it with the existing tank water. I do all of my propagation and rock structuring with in the tub. Most corals are sensitive to the air as well the, LSPs are not forgiving to air exposure. Keeping them submerged keeps the tissues of the coral less stressed. Whenever this kind of stress happens to me I just keep patient, and do frequent water changes. There’s a chance! I’ve had coral almost kicking the bucket this way and somehow with TLC they come back. The micro algae situation Yellow Tang and emerald crabs they love that stuff! I got a huge bloom of that stuff in my tank, bought a baby yellow tang gone in 2 days. The crab gets deep in the rock to remove the rest. Best of luck, hope my recommendations help!
Thank you for sharing and watching!
Video production: 👍👌💪❤
What happened to the tank: 🤔
Thank you!
Chemistry
Seriously I appreciate all the time and effort you put into these videos to educate us on this beautiful hobby.They are so informative 🙏🏻
Thank you EB Jaj!
That's why I rarely lift entire established rocks out of the tank. Esp not for that long. When something wrong does start to happen though, I do constant water changes, like 2-3 times a day in order to dilute any toxin or die off. While adding lots of carbon, and doing lots of constant filter cleaning.
I would suggest setting up a quarantine tank for items that could possibly nuke your tank. Do it even if you're not sure. It's better to be safe
Yes! I have 3 saltwater aquarium, lab, frag, frag is used for quarantine. water change and carbon is so useful in those situations!
Yes moving around that much coral for that much time has been a disaster for me as well.
My whole family loves you’re video so much, specially my daughter. Reef hobbie some times really make you crazy. But one thing I say it’s really beautiful hobby never ever stop, it’s our humble request.
Your request will be fulfilled :)
Get an all-in-one 9 watt uv filter and your dinos are done in two days. Then take it out. Quit messing with the tank! Let it evolve. NPS corals in a tank that small are hard to keep without a huge nitrate issue. Good luck. Beautiful tank.
Indeed, since I added my tubastraea I find it hard to balance with food, One day it's cyano, 2 days after its Dinos, and some breaks in between.
@@AquaSplendor I had bad dinos in my pico. As bad as yours. Got a Green Killing Machine for $50 and it started clearing up immediately. Add water changes and some SmartStart Complete bacteria dosing and you're back in no time.
Next up: hair algae. That one can be really tough, but you already have a lot of good corals with good bacteria so you just might skip that plague.
No way!! 😭😭 Reefing has its ups and downs buddy, hopefully you get over this hurdle without too much loss
I'm aiming for zero :)
As soon as you disturbed the sand and I saw the white strings I knew they were coming. Luckily those appear to be Ostreopsis and an adequately sized UV sterilizer plumbed straight into the display will clear them up in no time.
White string?
Get a 13w UV sterilizer from eBay they’re like $12 and throw that in the back with your pump. Your videos are always engaging.
1:17 - Broke my freaking heart 💔
For anyone watching this is not the way to do tank maintenance. go watch a legit video from Bulk reef supply. You never want to just stir you sandbed and fill you system with all that excess poop and nutrients, He caused his dino problem
Before making suggestions, you have to understand the context and the environment, the living creature and the maintenance.
You can't make suggestions like this without knowing anything.
Just watch the next video...
i like the way your videos making, it tells story and always enjoyable to watch, pls keep producing, make a new start..i believe there is a lesson learned from this incident..keep reefing ✌️
I am a noob, but a saying i've heard over and over that everyone seems to agree with is: "Nothing good happens in this hobby quickly", which makes me wonder: wouldn't it be better to do this kind of thing slowly over time? Wouldn't it be better to cut back one coral, let everything settle for a week or two, then frag the next, etc.?
If you have the luxe of time that would be ideal!
I just had a diano apocalypse in my 2 gallon pico with a hammerhead coral one mushroom coral an acan and a zoanthyd along with a Duncan coral. It took me 1 month to develop them and it took me 3 months to fight them and finally suppress them in my system. It was my nitrates. I knew I had a low nutrient system so I kept feeding the tank to try to bring up my nitrates and I’d would only build phosphates. And I was breaking down the tank every weekend to get rid of the diano until it grew back. And then finally I got my hands on some sodium nitrite and was able to bring my nitrate levels back up and the diano slowly went away
Interesting
Great video,keep it up!🏖
Thank you!
As a fellow reefer I think this is a big mistake. In the beginning I also kept moving things around trying to make every single coral as happy as possible. Result, they would close up and sometimes even die from the stress of being manipulated so much. In the end, nature can’t really be controlled in such detail, it’s better to let it do its thing.
See you next week ;)
I love how you actually show us what goes wrong, so if/when it happens to us we can be prepared
Exactly :)
Hi. I just randomly came by this video of yours and I would like to say it's sadly beautiful. I'm new to the hobby and because of that I have yet dared to try saltwater reef tank as it is known to be alot harder than freshwater. It is very sad to see all this trouble you are going through. Your tank is beautiful. This is a great video to warn people of what bad could happen. I hope things will get better for you. Wish you the best.
thank you!
The troops will be motivated on the next video :)
bare bottom is the way to go
"emoji puking"
I just returned home from a week of vacation and my tank was a mess also. I’ve been battling some algae and so I added two big Mexican turbos snails. When I got home one of the turbos had knocked my trumpet coral onto my acan colony, needless to say the acans are completely unscathed and I have a half dead trumpet. To makes matters worse my ato had stopped working for about 48 hours that supplies my tank with kalk and fresh water. I suppose things could be worse. Sorry for your losses, I know the feeling. Thanks for sharing!
Isn't odd that weird stuff often happen when you go on vacation?
@@AquaSplendor Yes, it seems like some sort of domino effect that takes place. I had a very anxious feeling all week and I guess it was for good reason. Sorry about your tank, hopefully you will persevere.
@@Messier87_M87 Perseverance will pay off!
this is great because most youtubers only show theirs tanks when they look good, but the reality is saltwater tanks don't look good every moment of the day. Ppl show clips of the tanks with all the coral open and happy but thats noy how it looks all the time. Also, epic editing
Hehe 😄, thank you, i have to be careful to constantly show the other side, people get wrong perception
@@AquaSplendor I get what you're doing man and it's great! Keep up the good videos!
I faught what I thought was a losing battle with dinos. Lost a lot of high end acros. Faught the good fight. I was about to shut down my 170 gallon tank and start over as I could not see any end in sight. Months of blowing off rocks corals, changing filter shocks several times a day. Only to wake up and see them back in larger and larger numbers. Heart breaking. Then by chance I ran into someone special. Someone who changed everything for me and turned my tank around. This person worked at the NC aquarium and was a marine biologist. What he told me the best way to get rid of dinos is temperature. Slowly over the next month raise your tank temp to 83 to 84 degrees. DO NOT GO OVER 84. Let it sit for 3-4 days at 84 and the dinos will die off. I was skeptical at first took me another 3 weeks to try it. Over the next month I went from 78 to 84. Started noticing a slight reduction in the density of the dinos. Yes the corals we un happy but still alive. After 4 days I woke up and there was no eveadance of the dinos any more. Then over the next month i slow brought it back down. He also suggested leaving the tank at 80 degrees. Which i split the difference and now keep it at 79.5. But I have never seen another dino in my tank. That was two years ago. I did loose a few corals during that process but they were all ready stressed out from the dinos so there probably wasn't anything I could have done to save them anyway. I'm not suggesting you try this only wanted to share my experience with my own journey. And give you something to think about. Good luck happy reefing
Thank you for sharing this, I've heard great success with the raise of temperature indeed, and my aquarium should have no problem with this, I might try this eventually, thank you!
Good luck. Looks beautiful .
I'm currently fighting an extreme case of Dinos at the moment. Its been ongoing for 3 months. Just came back from a 10 day vacation and almost cried. Don't give up. We can beat it!!! :)
YES WE CAN!
also: I want to believe.
Wow that's a true video of the hobby the good and the bad I'm sorry you had to go through that please continue to make real videos
Sure do :)
Just found you and I'm binging!!! ❤❤❤
Thank you :)
Love how real it really is
Thank you, yes something you rarely see on TH-cam, showing the clips!
@@AquaSplendor rewatching every episode 8 months later and stumbled upon my comment randomly lol
Keeping it real, thanks for sharing 🙏 Nature will find a way
Couldn't have say better :)
You needed a bigger tank to let them grow.
Common mistake is to cram everything next to each other.
That's the whole idea. Come mistake is to "upgrade".
It's not easy, but achievable.
@@AquaSplendor
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@@AquaSplendor
I've figured out why your tank is so bad........
You've spent more time making this video than the upkeep of the tank.
Had you kept the up keep of the tank healthy, you would not have the time to make this video ......... The video is good 🤣 Lol.
@@thepilgrim1581 Well, hater gonna hate, be ready for the next one!
@@AquaSplendor
No hate here dude.
You just can't handle constructive criticism.
I just got Done with a battle against Coolia dinos. It was a pain for several months. Beat it with a combination of no water changes, dosing Phyto, nitrates and phosphates and UV. Then i got cyano on top of the dinos. Even after getting my nutrients up it didn't go away. I added new sand (since i had vaccummed so much out already) and both magically disappeared
Interesting
You can beat it, I have full faith!
Yes, Faith in Nature!
remove antiphos from the aquarium, feed 2 times a week, set up export via hetomorph in your sump
i love your videos
Thank yoouuu🙏
Raise your nitrates and phosphates, allow other organisms to be able to compete for nutrients. Algae might grow but that's good competition against dinoflagellates. Dose bacterial cultures (microbacter 7 or PNSB). Consider UV and blackout if it's the type of dino that goes into the water column at lights out. The main main thing is really just not letting your nitrates and phosphates hit 0 or near 0 in my experience. The big fragging event and taking rock out of water might have disrupted your bacterial population and added nutrients at the same time.
Edit: In short don't let nitrates/phosphates bottom out or allow/trigger a big die-off of the established ecosystem and trigger an ecological succession event because dinos seem to be great pioneer species under those circumstances.
In a few days with your husbandry like assistance, faith in nature will be restored. The bacteria that was disrupted will slowly start to fade.
Bacteria are my bone ;)
That's a shame for such a beautiful tank. I had a long battle with dinoflagellates recently and I solved it by running the temp higher at 82⁰f and I was dosing 1ml per 10 gallon of hydrogen peroxide at night. Also I let the tank get dirty and let the algae out compete it. Trouble is now I have hair algae everywhere.
I had a similar treatment, and follow up algae problem. In my 30 gallon, I added a tuxedo urchin which fixed things up over the course of a few months. I’ve used Sea hares in the past, except they work too well and you will have to rehome them wuicjly
Nice video love that channel new friend here❤️🇮🇳😊👍
Thank you, 😊
Dinos suck. I just won my two week battle with it. If you would like to know what i did let me know! I love how you are showing all the steps ugly and good.
I crashed my tank and killed all of my corals except for my myshrooms, Kenya tree, xenia and bubbletip. I always get water from my LPS. I tested water before doing water changes for the first year and then stopped. A new employee on his first day alone had to mix up salt water. I didn't test and did a water change about 20%. By the next day most of my coral were dead. It was so disheartening. My tank went from full and alive to barren over night. But I learned my lesson. Make my own water and test eveytime.
that's awful. You're definitely better off mixing your own water. Cheaper too =D
I feel the pain I just battled with dinos for months gave in and tank broken down started from scratch the amount of money spent and coral lost 😢
I tried uv blackouts antibiotics increase nutrients pods phytoplankton decrease nutrients regime after regime and it beat me lol even after I'd under microscope
Did you do a water change after the significant trimming on the softies?
Always, it's crucial!
Water change and use UV filter, Dr Tim’s waste away and microbacter 7. UV for 1-2 weeks.
Im not a big fan of interfering with the natural progress by adding all kinds of products and removing the corals to give them a ´´cleaning´´ ,In my experience the best way to keep your tank stabile is by just let nature do its thing and you do small water changes ever week and cleaning the filters and stuff,Corals love to have stabile water parameters, If thats in balance you will have the best result
Keep watching, next episode ;)
perfectly balanced as all things should be.
Finding Equilibrium is the goal of every aquarist :)
When you took the rocks out you killed off a large portion of your good bacteria which enabled the dino take hold. I would start dosing bacteria and pods asap. I did something similar by taking my rocks out to move my tanks location and caused a dino bloom. I then bought a live rock from a 5+ year old reef, dosed bacteria, and pods all to my tank. I beat my dino in under 2 weeks with these steps.
Bringing competition against dino is the best way 👍
Checkout the Dino treatment plan video that Reefdudes did with Cruz from Elegant Corals, - that plan recently worked for my battle.
I should watch it.
I'm already going with competitor bacteria. Was thinking to use h2o2 but I had a bad experience with one coral previously 🤔
I love your videos. I hope you can get through the dino
dinos is hard to get rid of. i tried everything and the one thing that works was a 2 week blackout. i did lose a few sps corals.
2 weeks!? That's intense!
@@AquaSplendor yeah after trying a uv sterilizer, adding bacteria, 3 day blackouts, manual removal, hydrogen peroxide, and dino x. I gave up and did a 2 week black out lol. I lost a few corals but my tank is doing really well now!
@@ragnarok400 You try them all ;)
DR.Tim’s would have eradicated the dinoflagellates.
Which product of Dr Tims would have helped?
@@thejamiestarbuck Waste away I believe
@@andrewaxel thank you
Waste away and refresh
0:09: "I use the dead wood to make the fire rise"
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I think a consistent water change is needed till it corrects. Captain hindsight here.. but you did too much at once. Stressed everything on a small system. And the small water volume couldn’t handle that level of stress enzymes etc given off of the corals. Consistent water 10-30% a day change will lower the bad enzymes and metabolites etc. wish you and your tank the best! Appreciate the honesty giving people a chance to learn.
Whats moving in the hole at 7:23?
I wonder my self, probably brittlestar
To be honest as a rule I don't put my bare hands in my tank our hand are full of harmful bactearia even to us so gloves on isn't there a natural critter for Dino's I have never had them but I have 20 astrea spiny snails black foot snails and 6 conch in a 4ft
I would say that you discovered the biggest problem with nano tanks, it doesn't take much to completely disrupt the balance! But don't make this your exit from the hobby, instead show us all how you bounce back from this! As always your videos are top notch !
Never. Quit. Reefing.
I suspect that palythoa toxins nuked your tank.
The dinos are hard to fight.... let your nitrates build up to 10ppm and dose bacteria microbelift special blend..... it will help.
There's more chemical war than palytoxin ;)
There so much wrong with your what doing.
Dinos are a losing battle. Ive been fighting coolia for a year now. Ready to break down the tank. Sucks
Yes, it's a very frustrating form of life >.
Two days blackout and then sucked all up once u see it coming back and keep repeating it every other day and add carbon to remove all the toxins in the water u be good and try to keep all your parameters were they need to be
Yes :) (light blackout doesn't change much honestly)
The corals need nitrate and phosphate, sorry my English is not very well
I'm sorry too a few months ago I lost my tank because of the dinoflagellates
Sorry for your tank :(, Dino are annoying, they are persistent!
@@AquaSplendor they are very hasshole
@@AquaSplendor now you restart?
it looked like drama
Maybe, maybe not, find out next week.
Day 320...
I got this chemical from petco and turned off all the lights and wrapped a blanket around my tank and in 4 to 5 days it want away the dino
Oh yeah, I'm about to do that
What happened did the tank crash?
Well, lets say it did look good. But find out next week :)
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I recommend using a lot of carbon...
Yup, a lot!
don't start with difficult corals, plant as many soft corals as possible
Other than the Tubastraea they are all easy
You used protein skimmer
There's no skimmer, water change every week
Watching this right after I found out my other clown was also killed by a pistol shrimp...
2 clowns and 2 dalmon damsels gone thanks to it.
On top of thst my LT anemone died due to a bad water reaction... All in 1 months time
Seriously fuck this hobby
Sorry to hear :(, by curiosity, what kind of pistol shrimp it is?
@@AquaSplendor I am in Sri Lanka, so is from the indian ocean, its not that big, brown in colour. He keeps hiding inside the rock so cant see.
Now I'm trying to trap him in a bottle...
Once i sort out this issue i will restart the tank properly... this hobby hits you hard sometimes man...
How the hell does a pistol shrimp take out a clown? My pistol shrimps always stayed on the sanded in their tunnels and my clowns never went near him.
Uv sterilizer and microbacter 7
Bro.. last episode? Why? 😢
On a lighter note.. “glasses and mask 😷 but no gloves”.. 🙄 sureeeeeee 🤣🤣🤣
It's more scary when it's in the air than "liquid", but the real reason no glove is because of the camera, I want to make sure my hands are not dirty and with gloves, I can't always tell.
If a saltwater tank is healthy don’t mess with it that’s why it happened
Ever use the word husbandry! Be a man! Geezus
Amen
nutrient problem.. get some fish your phos and nitrate are too low
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Overdose?
I don't dose anything
It's unwatchable with the music. I have to run to turn it down
Call the police when I talk
The music and sound design is incredible.
Where did you get this tank from?
Made it, check in description of the video I put a link how I made it