And, what is it like with the stickyness of your "gigdonni"? Is it super sticky, where it's hard to remove from, like haddoni, or could a fish rip off tents and get away, like from a gig?
There is no getting away sadly, so it's more haddoni in that respect. Couple months back my female of the yellow wrasse pair missed diving into the sand for bed, hit the top of the water, the glass, then about 1-1.5" into the gig... yea it was done. I wish i could take a video of the feeding reaction on this guy. It's nearly instantaneous. There is no hope once you hit 'em. I've seen the purple sting a wrasse, and my yellow tang below and they can easily get away with no ill effects.
Also, I will take some pictures tomorrow of the green and purple both. Purple had a lot of bald area, a large patch when I got 'em and tentacles are slowly appearing. Overall, they are both beautiful, just wish the green looked liked yours
Just gives me a reason to keep my eye open for a blue once I solve my nutrient issues!
Pillar #3 has a huge todd's torch colony on top... It's supposedly a rare version of torch coral.. have had it for a long time and started out as one head, is now over 20.
I can certainly guarantee you, Carbon dosing will not eliminate our Red Slime or Cyano. In fact there have been situations where excessive Carbon dosing leads to Cyano outbreak.
This is just my understanding & what I have experience personally. I had to cut down Vinegar due to Cyano outbreak.
Well, this will be a good experiment to see how it works out. To be honest, there's almost no chance it can get worse with how it has been over the last few months. Vodka dosing leads to increased cyan at times, that's why I chose Vinegar dosing. This is as a result of work done by Randy Holmes Farley. I realize the ratio to nitrate
hosphate reduction is balanced more toward nitrates than phosphates, but carbon dosing has its benefits to reducing phosphate as well. From Randy's article at reef keeping.com
"Scientific research has found that cyanobacterial growth does not increase when dosing vinegar (acetate), where it was found that ethanol dosing will increase cyanobacterial growth. Cyanobacteria produce PHA to store energy when needed. PHA is an ingredient in some biopellets. So cyanobacteria can utilize some if not all of the biopellets. Hobbyists who have dosed vinegar have reported less cyanobacterial problems compared to dosing biopellets & ethanol. This was my experience as well."
Randy is our resident RC chemist, so I feel very comfortable taking his word for it, as well I've done a lot of research on the subject. Another excerpt about what I am thinking my tank needs, specifically my sand bed.. I'm sure I have nitrates in here as well as phosphates, so honestly dosing carbon via vinegar should help bring BOTH down over time.
"These process further reduce nitrate beyond their ordinary needs for nitrogen. This denitrification is the process that takes place inside of live rock and sand beds, and adding an appropriate organic carbon source that can penetrate these regions may spur the process."
In the end, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work and I try the red slime remover that Taylor_t has mentioned or something else. I figured that I'd at least try carbon dosing first.