Dinoflagellates - dinos a possible cure!? Follow along and see!

[Moe K]

I truly believe your money spent gave you no benefit with that test, there's no way to take that outcome report and translate it into action to help your reef. AB testing has zero application to dinos invasion work.

bacterial dna testing doesn't help us manage invasive dinos. it doesn't help us manage anything, AB is scooping up this cash we're throwing his way to be part of new terminology in the hobby.

I kind of agree with you. If I was just chugging along with no issues and not experimenting with taboo chems in the tank I wouldn't waste my time on the test. I started using aquabiomics when my torches started mysteriously dying and sure enough there were pathogens. Did antibiotic treatments and that didn't help much. I learned a few things so it was not all for nothing.

But here we are. 2 of the 3 pathogens now undetectable. It does say something I think and better than just blindly not knowing what is happening to the microbiome. Bob Stark may have been right in that it attacks only gram neg bacteria. It could be the bleach dosing or the more pro biotic approach with CRT concoction but as a side effect to trying to fight dinos may have found a better way to fight pathogens than using cipro and amox (which didn't work for me).

It really doesn't have anything to do with the dinos other than just another test to give a clearer picture into the controversial bleach dosing and its effects to the microbiome.

But yes, that is the last aquabiomics test I will be doing for a loooooong time. Anymore tests and I won't be able to feed my fish anymore from going broke lol. And that wait is unbearable.

 

[brandon429]

well said. I think the data will be useful in 5-10 years as actionable plans following the test, just not today. All tech has to get a start somewhere though, that's what we're all currently funding for the benefit of Eli's company.

he can generate some data from the tests, whether or not thats accurate (no alt labs to verify, no way to know how QC affects reading accuracy, so many unspoken variables when only 1 company offers these aquarium tests) or valid in the context of things we can change in a reef tank is what all the current debate is about, from those who are not buying what AB is selling, and there are several here. Nothing I've read from Randy HF indicates these tests are highly prized for us.

In matters of testing things in a reef tank, I value what Randy has to say because he isn't selling anything.

 

[Moe K]

Update. Few months later and no sign of Ostreopsis ever since the dosing. Looks like I beat LCA with reef brite reef enhance, tisbe and amphipods, and diluting water glass in 3000ml of rodi to be put on a doser to not make it a pain to hand dose everyday. I have what looks like one pod per top grain of sand.

I had an irritated torch coral from bumping into it with a scraper. I did a 2 day bleach dose and it bounced right back with no issues.

So I am thinking about diluting bleach to a dosable amount through a dosing pump. Not sure what is safe for the soft dosing pump tubing though.

I will call it Coralox