baeya
Aquarium Addict
I'm cheering you on!!
Dinos look kinda like red slime algae; rusty brownish/reddish, and they carpet the sand and rocks like red slime. The difference is dinos usually have strings or strands coming up from it, with bubbles in the strands. It looks like strands of snot. They are very responsive to light and there can be no sign of them when you turn the lights on, but within an hour or two, the whole tank is overtaken by them. Then when you turn the lights off, they go away.
I'm betting that's what it was too. But I would wait a couple of water changes before buying frags just so that whatever the river rocks were leaching can work its way through your system
Good to hear!!!! I am hoping that this is the fix for you. I have never used redsea salt so I dunno about that. I have used reefcrystals for years but my fish guy talked me into trying Seachem reef salt...so far I like how it dissolves.
I'll be curious to hear how the Seachem reef works for you - that's what I use and it seems like the latest batch is crap. At this point I'm thinking of switching to aquavitro salinity - a higher end seachem product that tests each batch of salt and gives you what the parameters should be right out of the bucket.
So far the seachem salt has been great. I asked my lfs about it also. This is the salt he uses for the water he sells and he tests it constantly. He hasnt seen any issue. He does sell a :pooh: load of salt so it never is on the "shelf" very long. I dont know if that matters much but I know I have seen the same bucket of reef crystals at petsmart for months. I know its the same one cause I marked it.....was just curious....
Hey Pok, you really shouldn't be dosing your tank unless you have it heavily stocked with corals (and I know you don't). Why are you dosing?
You shouldn't have to worry about calcium unless you have corals too.