Reef Bass
colors and textures
Greeting former Wine Country Reefers members and lurkers.
With all the current challenges - pandemic, fires, drought, heat - how are tanks doing? Has being locked down helped or hurt your reefing?
My 60 continues on generally well. Things are growing. I did lose a stylo to my purple torch. Snails pushed the frag racks around on the bare bottom "just right" so the torch was able to HAMMER its neighbor, and the stylo rtn'd instead of recovered. I continue to enjoy my toxic green octospawn, bicolor frogspawn, splatter and bicolor hammers and of course, despite its aggression, my purple torch.
I am pleased to report aiptasia are almost gone.
Berghia are doing their job. It is a bit different this time though, as it seems the berghia didn't build up to enormous numbers as they have before. I would often just see one or two in the early morning and the aiptasia disappeared more gradually. While my fish population is low, hermits and bristleworms are sufficiently abundant that I think their predation on berghia eggs is impactful.
Some valonia came in on a frag and it's doing a good job trying to get hold, growing in between frag rack cells where they're hard to see and a pain to remove. Going to soak racks in hydrogen peroxide and see if that doesn't clear that up tout de suite.
How is your tank doing?
With all the current challenges - pandemic, fires, drought, heat - how are tanks doing? Has being locked down helped or hurt your reefing?
My 60 continues on generally well. Things are growing. I did lose a stylo to my purple torch. Snails pushed the frag racks around on the bare bottom "just right" so the torch was able to HAMMER its neighbor, and the stylo rtn'd instead of recovered. I continue to enjoy my toxic green octospawn, bicolor frogspawn, splatter and bicolor hammers and of course, despite its aggression, my purple torch.
I am pleased to report aiptasia are almost gone.
Berghia are doing their job. It is a bit different this time though, as it seems the berghia didn't build up to enormous numbers as they have before. I would often just see one or two in the early morning and the aiptasia disappeared more gradually. While my fish population is low, hermits and bristleworms are sufficiently abundant that I think their predation on berghia eggs is impactful.Some valonia came in on a frag and it's doing a good job trying to get hold, growing in between frag rack cells where they're hard to see and a pain to remove. Going to soak racks in hydrogen peroxide and see if that doesn't clear that up tout de suite.
How is your tank doing?
