My 20 long nano bare bottom

A new update! I got the softies out of my tank and can focus on sps.

Also got two full grown skunk cleaner shrimp from a fellow reefer and they are doing great. Even put the neon dottyback in its place when he was trying to check them out. They went to clean him and the dottyback didn't like that and hasn't bothered them after that!

In the picture you can see the weak birds nest sps and the little bit of polyps left on it.
 

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Moved my clowns into my 20L bare bottom yesterday. They are really digging the pot.
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Plenty of it. I think there may be some bacterial bloom going on as well because the water is very cloudy.

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So unfortunately I had 120v in my tank irritating corals and just ran into red bugs on my acro. Polyps aren't extending and the coral is browning out. I wish I could get some interceptor to treat with but I'm going to try a dip as that's the only smooth skin acro in the tank and they should all be on it. Try and kill them all at once maybe?

I don't know, I'm in Denver and will call a few places to see if I could get a rx for it and get it online. Seems cheaper there.
 
I just did a 2ml Bayer dip on the acro to knock any bugs off and hopefully as it's the only acro in the tank I got them all in one shot. I'll dip again in a week and if all is not well I will figure out how to get interceptor as a back up.
 
Haven't seen any bugs this week and polyp extension is slowly coming back. Color is returning and I hope I got them all.
 
Any FTS since adding coral?

Glad the bayer helped with the bugs. It's nice that that is a known and available treatment now. I had to use interceptor back in the day when my old tank had them for a few months.
 
I'm glad the treatments are working. All corals will be dipped after this incident.

My lights are super blue and I just replaced the bulb today. Still 20000k halide hoping it produces more color and slower growth.

I'll try pics later, I keep getting image upload failed on my phone.
 
Well I replaced the bulb for a new one. I had a minor hiccup with my carbon dosing and had a bacterial bloom and my nitrates and phosphates hit rock bottom. I lost one of my cleaner shrimp and I think my acropora is stn'ing my alk is 10 and calcium is 420 nitrate and phosphate are still unreadable. I don't have a magnesium test but I doubt it's dropped and I could add some to see if that helps the corals. I did stop kalk dosing because I thought that was the problem. Maybe I'll start a kalk drip again to see if that boosts their health.

My frogspawn isn't opening as big as it did either. I hope they all recover I'd hate for everything to go nose up.

Attaching files is still failing. I'll redo my photbucket account and post some in a little while.

Any advice guys? Wait it out?



 
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Well that valida is going bad pretty quickly. Tissue loss is severe. Is fragging an option? After my fish died I only feed what the shrimp will eat and broadcast feed sparingly. I need recommendations on a hog of a fish that I can feed heavily to get some nutrition in the tank. Or advice on an amino acid alternative because that junk is expensive for what it is.

Polyp extension came back after the halide went back over the tank but tissue is still being lost.

Any advice is welcome

Btw the algae is all gone after my nitrates hit rock bottom. Just some specks here and there and my Astraea snails are clearing it out.
 
Fragging was thought to help, though I think it's pretty rare that corals are "diseased" like we used to think.

I'd just work on stabilizing your tank. It sounds like you have a lot going on, and keep doing more. I wouldn't worry about nutrients. Don't need to add a new fish back, don't need to dose aminos or other nutrients. I'd take the opportunity of no fishes to get your nutrients down and keep them down while the algae die off.

If your alkalinity is 10-11, and you're running low nutrient, it's too high. I'm running around 9 right now and think it's perfect. You'll get stn and tissue recession with high alk and low nutrients.

I'd do some water changes, lower your vodka dose (I'm dosing 1ml when feeding heavily, .5 when I'm feeding normally) and give it some time. The worst thing you can do when you spot a problem is change a bunch of stuff all at once.

I think being a lazy reefer has been what had largely made me successful. Get things dialed in, monitor daily, test every few weeks, and make slow changes when need be.

Polyp extension shouldn't be considered an indicator of health.

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Sweet, I slowly stopped vodka dosing and the algae died off on its own. I'll test my alk again today and post again.

I've been trying to just maintain steady levels.
 
Alk is dropping and coralline algae is growing fast. Valida is still losing tissue just slowly, polyp extension is fantastic. I haven't water changed in a month and let detritus build up in my sump section. Been dosing 2ml calcium and 4 ml alk solutions every 3 days. All corals are open and happy. Algae is dead but vermetids are on the rise. I'll crush those with pliers when I decide another water change is in order.

I hope my valida starts growing again.

Also do you think with a lid I could keep a centropyge flavicauda in my tank?
 
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I think tissue loss has stopped entirely but there's still. Are skeleton I hope it grows to cover. The base is the healthiest area and all around the tank looks fine. I have an explosion of caulerpa on a rock and some bubble algae starting to take over the base rock of my gorgonian. Some tufts of algae places that is bright green but it seems to be less now than ever. Maybe a good scrubbing in a bucket of old water and a rinse in fresh saltwater will rid me of my algae issues entirely.

Still hoping I can get that mini angelfish in my tank.
 
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