Donald
In a 4 gallon reef you have the unique advantage of full access, repeat, its low work.
We allow these invaders to set in and then react all the way, that's how each one goes down but yours has a series of intercept points, if it takes more than one repeat to win that means nothing. I had to do valonia a few times to guide it out, they were able to seat in without early removal once in my tank having not seen them on the bottom of a frag.
You can beat dinos in a 4 gallon merely by repeating the rip cleaning which amplifies any booster you are doing such as lights out etc.
consider dunking your rocks in hyposaline water its a known diatoms stressor and it wont do much to purple live rock to dunk it, filtration bacteria still remain.
if you had planted corals on the rocks that precludes HS dunking, then creativity would then use a baster to spot apply the hyposaline water around the frags, still nothing harsh dosed to the water, all repeat work so far.
my reaction to your post was see your reaction work as a series of events not a singular. you could do a punch like a full rip change, go bare bottom until this is fixed, then rock dunk then lights out 3 days and a 1:10 peroxide dose and get this fixed. 4 gallons is easy fix you have the best opportunity in the whole thread for a win, that biomass cannot keep regenerating over and over its finite, energy stores will deplete based on your creativity.
Reef keepers are told by and large to delay with each invasion, start an ID thread, and water changes will spurn the invasion (since they are usually large tanks upwelling nutrients from used sandbeds, agreed) but that delay is critical to big invasions
The first response in a pico is to remove it 100% in the most assertive means possible as soon as you see the first spot, then start the id thread. anything shy of this, any delay means you need more than one catch up pass. we have a special access to utilize such that nothing can sustain an invasion in a pico reef.
for the large tanks where multiple rip cleanings isn't an option, the dosing experiments going on here are gold.
In a 4 gallon reef you have the unique advantage of full access, repeat, its low work.
We allow these invaders to set in and then react all the way, that's how each one goes down but yours has a series of intercept points, if it takes more than one repeat to win that means nothing. I had to do valonia a few times to guide it out, they were able to seat in without early removal once in my tank having not seen them on the bottom of a frag.
You can beat dinos in a 4 gallon merely by repeating the rip cleaning which amplifies any booster you are doing such as lights out etc.
consider dunking your rocks in hyposaline water its a known diatoms stressor and it wont do much to purple live rock to dunk it, filtration bacteria still remain.
if you had planted corals on the rocks that precludes HS dunking, then creativity would then use a baster to spot apply the hyposaline water around the frags, still nothing harsh dosed to the water, all repeat work so far.
my reaction to your post was see your reaction work as a series of events not a singular. you could do a punch like a full rip change, go bare bottom until this is fixed, then rock dunk then lights out 3 days and a 1:10 peroxide dose and get this fixed. 4 gallons is easy fix you have the best opportunity in the whole thread for a win, that biomass cannot keep regenerating over and over its finite, energy stores will deplete based on your creativity.
Reef keepers are told by and large to delay with each invasion, start an ID thread, and water changes will spurn the invasion (since they are usually large tanks upwelling nutrients from used sandbeds, agreed) but that delay is critical to big invasions
The first response in a pico is to remove it 100% in the most assertive means possible as soon as you see the first spot, then start the id thread. anything shy of this, any delay means you need more than one catch up pass. we have a special access to utilize such that nothing can sustain an invasion in a pico reef.
for the large tanks where multiple rip cleanings isn't an option, the dosing experiments going on here are gold.
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