New tank with LED light
- Thread starter rodneyri
- Start date
tang daddy
New member
Sorry to hear the bad news bro, I think everyone on this forum has encountered those bastard worms one time or another. The bubble algae can be fixed with a healthy dose of vibrant. I recently had a bad strain like you and it took only 4months before the stuff was growing everywhere like you described. In my gyre on snails even overtaking expensive chalices. I was at a loss but there was a thread on this magic stuff that would rid pest algaes. Anyhow with lots invested and a losing battle of the bubble algae I had no choice but to try. To my astonishment with only 1 dose the bubble algae has melted. You may want to try a fish to rid your aptaisia, heard the tasseled tile fish are good for those.
I didn't skim through your thread that well but maybe if you have the room setting up a frag tank to quarantine the new sps might be the way to go this time around...
I didn't skim through your thread that well but maybe if you have the room setting up a frag tank to quarantine the new sps might be the way to go this time around...
Well tank is pulled apart today...busy on new scape and here is a teaser of work so far, its a mix of texas rock, real reef rock (amazing) and dried out rock
This time wanted to keep the height the same but raise the lower part of the scape and make it chunkier so the fish have more homes
This time wanted to keep the height the same but raise the lower part of the scape and make it chunkier so the fish have more homes
janci
New member
Nice workmanship. Well done.
The centre of the rocks has holes for the fish to enter?
What height for the rocks do you use in comparison to the height of the tank?
Zacktosterone
Active member
any updates??
Funny you say that...shut down my tank a almost a year ago with travel, work and other things. BUT today was the day I started filling it up again!
danromero87
New member
amazing! looking forward to the new build. that last one was inspirational!
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
Excellent news.
From 1-7pm its pretty much the same and just ramp up/down either side.
tank has some fish now and settling soon for some corals...on holidays in Japan so its not photo worthy :lolspin:
Firstly thanks all for the PM's on my tank, here are some pics of how its going...not so good just yet. Seven months in, started with Real Reef Rock and a bottle of Aquaforest bacteria and wow what a struggle to get this thing to settle down. Tested some small frags and RIP. Params are on point, going to try fluconazole to rid this carpet of slime muck.
Yes there are fish in there...they hid when the LED were put in yellow mode for the photo.
Yes there are fish in there...they hid when the LED were put in yellow mode for the photo.
chris melb
Member
Interesting to hear Rod. I'm currently going through a similar problem. Started an inert frag tank to avoid pest introduction (matrix, ARM media for filtration) and a year in still getting these mini cycles with similar algae problems. I've noticed that my tester frags shoe tissue recession when ever the algae starts to die off, then there will be a period where the coralline starts to come back but soon enough the algae dominates then the cycle starts again. Suspect that bacteria hasn't fully established and may take longer in inert setups. Large water changes along with GAC helps to some degree.
Am I the only one that see's a tank crash as an opportunity for a re-scape....
Here is my new acroscape, tank is 210G 7' long. I used STAX this time because I wanted to make something a bit unique, it allowed for making roller coaster type shapes and give space for water to flow throughout the scape.
This took lots and I mean lots of Aquaknead and superglue, I mix the glue into the aquaknead. This stuff is strong, I had to get an electric grinder to cut apart my old scape to remove it from the tank...and each of these new islands where lifted into the tank in one piece!
Here is my new acroscape, tank is 210G 7' long. I used STAX this time because I wanted to make something a bit unique, it allowed for making roller coaster type shapes and give space for water to flow throughout the scape.
This took lots and I mean lots of Aquaknead and superglue, I mix the glue into the aquaknead. This stuff is strong, I had to get an electric grinder to cut apart my old scape to remove it from the tank...and each of these new islands where lifted into the tank in one piece!
