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[Shibaken3]

30 mins drip may not be enough. You want to equalize and verify salinity match with the tank its going into. What happens and may have been part is fish in shipped bags produce carbon dioxide and ammonia. The carbon dioxide lowers the pH of the water in the bag, That in turn makes the ammonia non-toxic to the fish. When you acclimate them, if not done just right, you drive off the carbon dioxide faster than you are diluting the ammonia. That raises the pH of the water in the bag, and that in turn, makes the residual ammonia very toxic to the fish.
As for dinos, the root cause is biological deficiencies which are causing the structure and in turn the dino has consumed the po4 and no3 and are multiplying and in turn many dose no3 and po4 to bring numbers up not realizing they are feeding these flagellates even more.

would bottle bacteria help with the dino? I'm doing a weekly water change for Dino but would like to resolve Dino faster. any other things that I can do that u recommend?

 

[vetteguy53081]

would bottle bacteria help with the dino? I'm doing a weekly water change for Dino but would like to resolve Dino faster. any other things that I can do that u recommend?

No light is first key followed by the addition of bacteria to overcome the bad bacteria allowing them to thrive
Prepare by starting by blowing this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles. Turn lights off (at least white and run blue at 10-15% IF you have light dependant corals) for 5 days and at night dose 1ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights. If you dont have light dependent coral- turn all lights off. During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as micro bacter 7 or XLM) per 10 gallons. Clean filters daily and DO NOT FEED CORAL FOODS OR ADD NOPOX
You can feed fish as normal and if doing blackout, ambient light in room will work for them