Conskis 34 Gal Solana Build

hahaha o wow then i guess im again indeed a fool. but i sucked that right out of its mouth quicker then you can blink.. the reason i thought it was dino was becuase my torch was in 34gal and i watched it eat some dino.. so i thought it was expelling it..

yea my clown fish is in there, nowhere else to put him.. all the snails and cucumber are in there as well.. the clown is okay, hell pull through. im worried about the cucumber but i think hes fine as well... the temp should be fine within a few hours.. the shrimp are out though, if affected them immediatly
 
Ya, the temp is right on the edge of being too cold.. 71/72 would be the absolute coldest I would ever let a reef tank get, and I would try my hardest to never let that happen. I wouldn't do anything right now if I was in your position though.. just let the heater slowly heat the water... moving livestock around anymore will just stress them out that much more.

If your torch did eat dinos it probably digested what it could. I am betting the poop coming out was a little darker/thicker than the dinos I was seeing in your pics a couple pages back.

Well, just sit back and relax for a little while.. it was a long tough day I am sure.. but you absolutely did the right thing IMO and you should feel real good about that. I have no doubt your tank will recover. :)
 
this is my 14 gal at the moment lol

and i will do just that.. should i expect a mini cycle or something?! and is lights out for a week the right thing to do?

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If your running phosphate remover I doubt you will have any noticeable spikes in any of the bad parameters like ammonia, nitrites, or phosphates. Always good to run tests to verify but I don't foresee anything that would be considered dangerous to the point of life threatening to anything.. may cause a little stress but that should be it.

Lights out.. ya, again, nothing bad can come of keeping the lights out.. it can only help. It will reduce the stress on your livestock as well as remove a food source for the dinos if there are any left.
 
then im just gonna wait, and just hope it goes okay thanks for the help!
 
Now.. next time you go to your LFS you gotta tell them "My tank was over run by Dino's" and see what their reaction is.. some people may know what your talking about but some may think your saying Dinosaurs took over your tank. LOL. You may want to also politely mention to your LFS guy that dino's can kill corals via smothering them.. it isn't like one coral stinging another coral to death like I bet he was thinking when he told you dino's can't kill corals. Tell him it is more like a big spider making a spiderweb all over a flower, to the point the flower can no longer open up during the day because the web is holding it closed.. that is similar to what dino's do to SPS corals, LPS may be able to break the webs and survive much better than SPS.
 
When i called the LFS that i have been pretty well acquainted with, it was the owner that i talked too. he made me feel rather foolish, and i wasnt gonna argue with a man who owns a store with various high end corals with several expensive system that he assembled himself. He didnt seem to want to take it into consideration what i was telling him could be on any use to him because all hes read about dino is that it cant kill any corals and my one coral probably died by some fluke, like "your torch corals arm probably came off and stung it when it floated by".. i told him my torch is in great health.. and so is my water and that my coral was being covered in brown algae.. what im trying to say is that i dont think that he honestly cares what i think because to him im not experianced enough to talk to him.. i dont usually do buissness with him anyways, i go with younger guys there who are alot more open to what your gonna say to them.


o well maybe a dino outbreak will strike his own personal tank, and hell just turn the lights off and everything will just die and hell realize he coulda used some advise(although i hope this doesnt happen im not that sort of person)

its so wierd that i got a dino outbreak at the same time a diatoms outbreak is usually going to happen. i truly hope that if i get more brown algae its just diatoms.. except at this point ill be very scared if that happens cause i wont have any idea how to tell the difference. either way im mad at myself for just assuming i had diatoms, even though i guess it was a normal mistake, bcause you said dino is uncommon. i shoulda posted pics quicker and solved my problem faster

ill go to my other LFS where they are all very very aquainted with me and know basically everything about my tanks, theyre awsome there but their selection isnt as good. i bet if i told them i got dinos theyd ask more about it..
 
god the 34 gal water smells awful
 
wow really? i just out some in 2 days ago i think but ill do just that
 
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