Conskis 34 Gal Solana Build

i got my father so mad haha, he is so sick of switching that light from tank to tank mounting that light into the ceiling lol.

My 14 gal looks incredible i love it haha. tomorrow is going to be a very long day which is gonna take alot out of me i know that for sure. and i suppose i should either ask you to wait to send that package or adjust my 14 gal to make room for that package. either way the tank is well beyond established has enough flow and now enough light to sustain anything you send.

i tried putting my mp20 on it... mistake.. even on low flow that sucker was shooting things around
 
If you can remove the rocks and do the swishing around in a bucket thing with those it will save a lot of time with the turkey baster. When my LFS had the outbreak it was in the frag tank, which had little rock but lots of Egg crate, and that was were all the dinos stuck to when it wasn't sticking to corals. Talk about a major PITA to get rid of it off of egg crate.

Again though, lights off will only help get rid of it so that is good advice your LFS gave you in that respect. Unfortunately your corals would die long before all the dinos died off so that alone isn't a good solution by itself. Doing that in addition with manual removal is the best way. I have never heard of any "chemical in a bottle" that deals with Dinos so I think manual removal is pretty much the only option.

Also.. I would love for anyone else to offer advice, especially if anyone else has an opinion on the problem that is other than mine. I believe it is dinos in the tank, but always feel better when others confirm or deny it.
 
agh my rocks are the way i want them but i suppose i could do it, its better then having a crap shoot of death and no corals in the tank..

ill start with that then go right into the turkey baster.. i dk what im gonna do about the fish and shrimp though.. they are the most interesting skunk shrimp ive ever seen or owned.. as soon as my hands in the tank the rush to it and pinch it and crawl on it haha

even if it turn out to be just diatoms im glad i moved everything over becuase its still was getting on my corals. and it obviously bothered one so much it died. if it woulda been my borealis or green acro i woulda have been so mad. and my clam took right to my other tank. mantel was fully out within minutes.
 
Do it very gently/carefully and 1 rock at a time. The fish/shrimp shouldn't be stressed out nearly as much as the corals from the dinos. Maybe do just the top layer of rocks in a bucket 1 at a time and turkey baster for your base rocks so your not disturbing all your rocks. The biggest problem with Dinos vs normal Diatoms (dinos are a type of diatom) is that dinos are sticky, just like snot, so when you blow it off/around the tank it will just stick elsewhere and spread where as normal diatoms won't really stick to anything other that other diatoms.
 
i switched clowns from tank to tank, i dont want them getting hurt or stressed in all the commotion that is to come tomorrow
 
By dino u mean the red slime algae that takes over everything. If so i used a product called chemiclean it worked great but gave me some grean algae. Just make sure you follow the directions completely.

Whoops had dumb moment i was thinking cyano. disregard this post unless you get that.
 
lol thanks anyways man :)
 
:/ long long day.. worked for 5 hours getting it to what i hope will be parasite free!

i started out buy taking out 50% of the water with a turkey baster.
then i took the rock out and laid it out.
i then used a gravel vac and sucked everything that even resemled the color brown off the sand bed until it was at 25%
i scraped the back walls off and got it all off there. cleaned out all my equipment
took the rest of the 25% out with the baster

Then i filled a cooler up with water (not RO i didnt have enough to do that and fill the tank) and put salt in it really quick and gave each rock a bath then laid it on the sand which i double checked each rock for ****face parasite.

filled the thing back up with clean RO then got the Salinity back up to where it needed to be.. big problem here was my RO was so cold becuase its in a celler that my shrimp and snails went into immediate shock.. i evaced the shrimp into my little tank.. ones starting to move now.. the other is battle for his life.. hope he lives :/

what a sad day, i hope my cucumber and conch and star are okay in there and the snails.. and definitly the tomato clown i put through so so so much trouble.. if he lives hes definitly gonna be named Odysseus haha

Black out in the tank for a week.

give me good vibes please hope this worked out, i put alot of effort into it

only upside to all this is the fact that my new rock layout looks so good im very pleased with it

anything else i should do? i take it ill probably have a mini cycle?
 
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OMFG, I LOOK INTO MY LITTLE TANK AND MY TORCH CORAL IS VOMITTING UP A HUGGGE BATCH OF DINO. I TOOK MY BASTER AND SUCKED IT ALL UP BEFORE IT GOT OUT AND AROUND.. i hope it doesnt start to go in my little tank or im screwed..
im so happy i went back upstairs to just look at my tank for a minute and saw that.

one shrimp is back on track and happy in my little tank and sadly the other one has passed. my clown fish is alive and the tank is now at 71 degrees.

i realllllly reallly hope my little tank doesnt get it now
 
LOL... hahahaha.. funny. No, your torch is not vomiting Dino's, that is the normal "poop" that comes out of torches on occasion I am betting, although I agree, it does look like dinos.

The tank that is 71.. there isn't any livestock in that tank yet at that temp is there?
 
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