Gooches tank 150g

[goochesfish]

Losing tissue on this aussie scoly

Losing tissue on this aussie scoly

I don't know why but I am losing tissue. It was on the sand bed before and would always end up on it's side so I glued it to the lower rock work. I also started feeding it a few times a week but it still recedes.

 

[inktomi]

Good luck with the receding tissue. Does it eat when you feed it?

Maybe it is or was in too much flow and that part got damaged?

Thanks for posting the photo of the snails. I've often wondered exactly what they looked like. How big would you say those are? Maybe you could say how big one ridge is on that clam's shell for scale?

 

[jfarris1976]

nice set ups!

 

[goochesfish]

the snails are the size of a grain of rice. As for the flow, there is a lot but the tissue is not being shmushed around or anything. Hard to find a low flow area in my tank.

 

[goochesfish]

I am bored and away from my tank for a week

I am bored and away from my tank for a week

When first purchased, it had ich and was treated with copper. It took a while for it's wounds to heal up.

I've had it 6 months now

This candycane that started as 2 heads will soon be 4.

I didn't realize these also inflate. I wonder if it gets injured when it inflates by day and is touching the rock?

I am also down to 5 chromis. Started with 9 in QT, put in 7, one by one they go. I wonder how many I'll find when I get home. It will also be the longest I've gone without a water change (2weeks)

My chevron tang and most expensive fish I own

blue hippo and I want one more tang, a yellow I hope 3 tangs is not too much

this encrusting monty is filling up the plug

so is this one

my newest sps frag

That's all for now, I have trouble sleeping at my in-laws house especially when my 2 kids and husband are all in one room that has 2 twins, an aerobed, and a folding cot. I am sore and achy. 2 more nights 'till I get to go home.

 

[inktomi]

Looks good! I love chevron tangs, they've got beautiful patterns.

I've heard that chromis will kill each other off till just a few survive, but I hope I just read that somewhere and that it's not true for your sake!

 

[goochesfish]

Came home after 10 days away and 2 weeks from the last water change to find 10 tufts of hair algae measuring 1-2 cm each. I must have left too much food to feed. I had partitioned each day's feeding in little cups so the pet sitter can just dump it in everyday. I have some work to do tomorrow. Also am down to 4 Chromis. I was really hoping the number would hold at 5, no such luck. Scoly looks even worse too. All SPS have grown though and everything else looks healthy. Not too much algae on the glass even though it was not scrubbed the whole time.

 

[goochesfish]

Despite a calcium reactor I find my levels drop without supplementing.
Calcium 380
Mg1240
Kh 8
And this is after the water change

 

[jedheuer]

Yellow coris wrasse will pick off pyramid snails.

 

[CeeGee]

You feeding that brain coral? If not give it some mysis every night after it's tentacles come out.

I would hate to lo$e that one. It is beautiful. I would like to get one like that some day.

 

[inktomi]

I'm in the same boat with my calcium reactor too. Who would have guessed these things are so complex to tune in?

 

[Joce]

love the chevron tang!

I think that's normal for chromis to wean their numbers down to 3. Or so i read.

 

[goochesfish]

You feeding that brain coral? If not give it some mysis every night after it's tentacles come out.

I would hate to lo$e that one. It is beautiful. I would like to get one like that some day.

Yes, I am feeding the Scoly but not everyday. I'm an early riser and I feed in the morning before the sun comes up. I usually just feed it and walk away. Yesterday I watched with a flashlight and found the cleaner shrimp reaching in it's mouth after the scoly had drawn the food in. That theif! He's probably the cause of the receding tissue.

In regards to the pyramid snails, I have not seen anymore and the clam is doing great. I already have a mystery wrasse, i don't know if adding another will be a problem. Besides, wrasses are diurnal and the snails are nocturnal.

 

[goochesfish]

new long tentacle plate

new long tentacle plate

I've placed in a shaded area to acclimate it to my lights. I have a tendacy to bleach LPS. How long before I move it out into the open?
Green Long Tentacle Plate Coral
(Heliofungia actiniformis)

I've lowered the Christmas favia because it is fading

I'm also moving this recent addition, Alien Maze Brain
(Platygyra sp.) the sand before it gets bleached

This is how bad my scoly looks now

 

[CeeGee]

Cut a 2 liter bottle in half and put it over the scoly after feeding it. I would feed it heavily every day to get it back in shape. Get rid that shrimp.

 

[goochesfish]

New Scolymia

New Scolymia

I've had my eye on this scoly for months and now it's in my tank.

 

[inktomi]

Looks nice!! How is the other one doing?

 

[goochesfish]

I started feeding the Aussie Scoly more often and as suggested above protect it with a water bottle cover. Looks great at feeding time at night but then by day, the skeleton still shows.

Here is the new on at night

 

[goochesfish]

Tested everything today in an attempt to find the reason for the hair algae. It seems that scrubbing live rock with a toothbrush caused the algae to spread. I had all flow off and siphoned pieces as it came off.

Using salifert and API test kits tap water had phosphates of 0.5
RO/DI, fresh mixed salt water, aquarium water 1 week after water change all had zero phosphates.
Nitrates is 0.2 on salifert

The dumb tuxedo urchin can't seem to get itself over to where the algae is.

Also tested Mg 1365, Ca 420, KH 8.6
will raising Mg even more help?

 

[goochesfish]

Added 5 turbo snails and placed them right on the hair algae. They all crawled away without eating it. Also added 2 more emerald crabs who quickly ate all visible bubble algae but didn't touch the hair. Did water change levels dropped: Ca 350 and KH 8. Also changed out rowa phos.