Haven't posted pics in a while
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JB NY
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Thanks again guys!
Naso tang would be great but I am already over my limit on fish and a Naso would probably not be the best idea. I'll have to find some other solution. Not sure what it will be. I have a rabbit fish but he does nothing on the dictyota.
Yeah I'll try and get a tank shot in tonight when I get off work. I had a bunch of things pop up yesterday and wasn't home most of the day.
kmagyar No crash of my tank. I lost some corals due to lack of care to the tank for a while but nothing I would call a crash.
Naso tang would be great but I am already over my limit on fish and a Naso would probably not be the best idea. I'll have to find some other solution. Not sure what it will be. I have a rabbit fish but he does nothing on the dictyota.
Yeah I'll try and get a tank shot in tonight when I get off work. I had a bunch of things pop up yesterday and wasn't home most of the day.
kmagyar No crash of my tank. I lost some corals due to lack of care to the tank for a while but nothing I would call a crash.
piercho
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IME with Diadema sestosum: will incidentally eat red turf alga. NOT "red cotton" (Asparagopsis), and Diadema will avoid rock with Asparagopsis on it, IME. Seems to graze red wire and coraline preferentially. D. sestosm hasn't done much grazing of Halimeda in my tank. It will hit the tips and probably new growth, inhibiting it from spreading. The main problem with this grazer is it grows so big so fast and somewhere along the way will start grazing coral as well as plants in smaller tanks. Halimedas grow slowly in my tank and don't spread quickly.
Browns like Sargassum and Dictyota are chemically well defended and IME not likely to be grazed except by specialized grazers (Naso), none of which I've tried to keep. Driving nutrients through the floor eliminated Sargassum in my tank (incidentally, I liked the stuff), and is the best real control for Asparagosis I've found.
I have found no way to eliminate algae encroachment following base recession in fine branched coral like Pocs and Birdsnest. Its a real challange.
JB, your tank still has some of the most fantastic colors on the board. The downside of seeing pics of your tank is it makes my sparse and slow-growing collection of SPS look pretty sad in comparison.
Browns like Sargassum and Dictyota are chemically well defended and IME not likely to be grazed except by specialized grazers (Naso), none of which I've tried to keep. Driving nutrients through the floor eliminated Sargassum in my tank (incidentally, I liked the stuff), and is the best real control for Asparagosis I've found.
I have found no way to eliminate algae encroachment following base recession in fine branched coral like Pocs and Birdsnest. Its a real challange.
JB, your tank still has some of the most fantastic colors on the board. The downside of seeing pics of your tank is it makes my sparse and slow-growing collection of SPS look pretty sad in comparison.
cwegescheide
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People with awesome reef tanks annoy me.... :lol:
Lookin good Joe.
Chris
Lookin good Joe.
Chris
JB NY
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Yeah I'm not sure what I am going to do about the dictyota. It's in a few areas that makes it tough to get to and the stuff seems even harder to remove by hand as it easily breaks off when trying to remove it.
My biggest concern is that it is causing some RTN issues with corals that it is to be growing next to. In my tank, eventually when enough of the algae gets around the coral, I start to notice some recession and in one case complete STN of the coral over a week or two, so I need to do something about it.
So what am I going to do? Well the decision has been sort of made for me. I am planning on doing some renovations at my house in the coming months, redoing the hardwood floors as well as the kitchen and baths. All this construction will make keeping the tank even more difficult in the coming months, so I have decided to take the tank down.
Yup, I am going to pull the tank down.
Two good things will come out of this. Mainly a new and larger tank. Also a chance to start new and rid myself of the dictyota problems I am currently seeing in the tank. So although I am sad to see the end of this tank, I am excited that the next one will be a lot of fun and give me more room to do what I want to do.
OK..before everyone in my club and the surrounding areas PM my for frags when I pull the tank down. I am planning on housing most of my corals at a friend or two's tanks until I can get my new tank up, which I hope is around the end of this year.
My biggest concern is that it is causing some RTN issues with corals that it is to be growing next to. In my tank, eventually when enough of the algae gets around the coral, I start to notice some recession and in one case complete STN of the coral over a week or two, so I need to do something about it.
So what am I going to do? Well the decision has been sort of made for me. I am planning on doing some renovations at my house in the coming months, redoing the hardwood floors as well as the kitchen and baths. All this construction will make keeping the tank even more difficult in the coming months, so I have decided to take the tank down.
Yup, I am going to pull the tank down.
Two good things will come out of this. Mainly a new and larger tank. Also a chance to start new and rid myself of the dictyota problems I am currently seeing in the tank. So although I am sad to see the end of this tank, I am excited that the next one will be a lot of fun and give me more room to do what I want to do.
OK..before everyone in my club and the surrounding areas PM my for frags when I pull the tank down. I am planning on housing most of my corals at a friend or two's tanks until I can get my new tank up, which I hope is around the end of this year.
I think either will work, I've never run BB before so I might go that route just to see. Not sure yet.
kmagyar
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Joe-
FWIW, I started my 120 with cooked rock from 3 different people that left the reef schene. Most of the stuff was covered with aiptasia and those nasty brown stars. The rock I had to add to that was from my 65 gallon RTN crash in 2003. It took me 2-3 months to feel comfortable enough to use it
During that time it sat in my 65 with a 4" DSB of well matured southdown and LS. I used a mag7 to blast the sand around almost daily. You can see some progress pics including my 120 the day I added the rock at my homepage.
Keith
FWIW, I started my 120 with cooked rock from 3 different people that left the reef schene. Most of the stuff was covered with aiptasia and those nasty brown stars. The rock I had to add to that was from my 65 gallon RTN crash in 2003. It took me 2-3 months to feel comfortable enough to use it
During that time it sat in my 65 with a 4" DSB of well matured southdown and LS. I used a mag7 to blast the sand around almost daily. You can see some progress pics including my 120 the day I added the rock at my homepage. Keith
manderx
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my queen conch destroys dictoya. with it's long snout it can get into any nook and cranny to eradicate it. when it eats it, it doesn't come back. it seems to really like the stuff, so it gets every bit there is. surprisingly gracefull for it's size too (~5"). it never knocks things off rocks, but it does knock stuff around that is just sitting on the bottom.
