From stupid to less stupid: tank growth

[gizmoody]

Messing around with the camera and different perspectives of corals plus going a little darker while cataloging my corals. Let me know what you think!

Deep water Acropora...I think
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Another Acropora. Check out the geometric polyp!!
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Ora German Blue Acropora, I think
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[Breakbeats2334]

What lens are you currently using for these macro shots?

 

[gizmoody]

What lens are you currently using for these macro shots?

The Nikon 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor Lens. Really sharp lens but the glass of the aquarium really negatively affects the image.

 

[gizmoody]

Montipora polyps. This coral is really growing in it's new spot in the tank and growing both upwards and in a plating form.

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[Arkayology]

I'm glad your tank is bouncing back from the AEFW. Too bad about the colonies, but now you have more room to grow!

 

[spsfreak1977]

wow nice amazing

 

[blakers82]

You have a great outlook. I've definitely been there. Stick to your plan and dip/inspect on schedule. Good things can happen if you carry through.

Messing around with the camera and different perspectives of corals plus going a little darker while cataloging my corals. Let me know what you think!

Deep water Acropora...I think
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64417019@N03/7028148643/" title="DSC_4027 by djgreenmonkey, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/7028148643_5169750158_z.jpg" width="640" height="511" alt="DSC_4027"></a>

Another Acropora. Check out the geometric polyp!!
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64417019@N03/7028148565/" title="DSC_4025 by djgreenmonkey, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7251/7028148565_b38a05dd1a_z.jpg" width="640" height="334" alt="DSC_4025"></a>

Ora German Blue Acropora, I think
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Looking good. Someone on here could help you ID, but I can tell you with 99% certainty that's not an ORA German Blue Polyp acro. Keep us updated on your dipping/inspection process and good luck!

 

[gizmoody]

I'm glad your tank is bouncing back from the AEFW. Too bad about the colonies, but now you have more room to grow!

Definitely happy about the extra room to grow.

 

[gizmoody]

wow nice amazing

Thanks spsfreak1977!

 

[gizmoody]

You have a great outlook. I've definitely been there. Stick to your plan and dip/inspect on schedule. Good things can happen if you carry through.



Looking good. Someone on here could help you ID, but I can tell you with 99% certainty that's not an ORA German Blue Polyp acro. Keep us updated on your dipping/inspection process and good luck!

Hey dude. I made a mistake, I meant montipora instead of acropora. My bad, the title of this thread says it all...from stupid to less stupid.

 

[gizmoody]

Update:

I have periodically been blastng my corals in the tank with a pipette/turkey baster as a test and haven't seen any AEFW come off of the corals. Also all polyps are out, corals are growing and coloring up again and I can't see any AEFW eggs. I don't see any bite marks. Once you see these things in your tank they are so easy to recognize again.

Here is my procedure again (I'll update if I see changes):

1. Removed all acros from rocks, including encrusted ones and scraped off the encrusted parts left behind on rocks. Inspected each coral with a flashlight for 2 minutes outside of tank and water and scraped any eggs off. I even cut the base off of one coral and threw out a couple of other corals that had many eggs.

2. Dipped in Revive for 8-10 minutes for hardy acros but 5 mins for deep water acros and other sensitive ones. Swirled initially then blasted them with a turkey baster 5-10 times while dipping.
Note: Be careful with deep water acros and others like pearlberry, ice fire, and Hawkins echidna acros as you can blast the skin off of them if you are too harsh.

3. Swirled and let sit in fresh water after Revive dip for 10 minutes. Blasted with turkey baster 3-4 times every few minutes. Returned to tank but on sandbed.

4. Repeated for 2 additional weeks.

5. Glued corals to small rock bases and reattached to live rock. Now I check everytime I look at my tank for bitemarks, AEFW that may come off by blasting, etc.

3. I added a Yellow Wrasse, scientific name Halichoeres chrysus, to form a biological AEFW control team with my Six Line Wrasse.

Also after the third dip, I removed a lot of live rock to get rid of the wall of rock look since I really didn't have any corals on most of the rocks at this point. I was really worried that by removing about 50% of my live rock I would see adverse negative reactions. The ancient but still prevalent 1-1.75 pounds of live rock to 1 gallon of water rule embedded in my brain was hard to break. However it is clear that I worried unnecessarily. Now I have about 25-30 pounds of live rock in a 65 gallon tank. I still have 9 fish who are fed well and tank parameters are fine as judged by health of fish and corals. I did do two 15% water changes within the first week of removing the rocks to prevent a massive cycle, especially since I disturbed so much detritus under the rocks.

 

[gizmoody]

Update:

3. Swirled and let sit in fresh water after Revive dip for 10 minutes. Blasted with turkey baster 3-4 times every few minutes. Returned to tank but on sandbed.

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By fresh water I mean fresh saltwater not with Revive. At no time were the corals exposed to non-salt water or freshwater.