Olasana Lagoon: High Energy SPS Nano Build Thread
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jrpdriver
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Looking good, I appreciate how candid you have been with everything. Just curious about your placement. Since you glued them to the bottom of the tank and the fact that they will eventually encrust onto the glass, it looks like everything will start to grow into each other pretty quick. With that 400w up that high you should have more than enough spread and intensity to grow in all parts of the tank, what was your thought in grouping everything in the middle? Experiment in which corals will dominate and survive maybe?
I usually switch between it and long pulse surge at 100%
Basically I started in the middle and am working outwards as I get more colonies. :fun4:
OMG Chip! Hey ltns!
Hey guys, long time no update.
An AEFW outbreak blindsided me. Some colonies took a heavy blow, bite marks, color loss, but I have been basting and have gained a lot of ground on them.
Anyway, here's the tank as of this morning. Been skimmer less for a few months now, just water changes, carbon and a coarse sponge.
An AEFW outbreak blindsided me. Some colonies took a heavy blow, bite marks, color loss, but I have been basting and have gained a lot of ground on them.
Anyway, here's the tank as of this morning. Been skimmer less for a few months now, just water changes, carbon and a coarse sponge.
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mr.wilson
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Your tank is more conducive to levamisole dosing and or external baths in oxidizers than the average tank. Why not go more proactive?
I'm battling AEFW myself so I have a self-interest in convincing you to be the guinea pig for the use of dewormers like piperazine, trichlorofon/dylox, droncit/praziquantel, fenbendazole/pancur, and ivermectin.
School is for fools, say yes to drugs!
I'm battling AEFW myself so I have a self-interest in convincing you to be the guinea pig for the use of dewormers like piperazine, trichlorofon/dylox, droncit/praziquantel, fenbendazole/pancur, and ivermectin.
School is for fools, say yes to drugs!
gofor100
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Agreed on the dipping/dosing vs. basting... you have very little rock the corals are attached to and no large colonies that would be difficult to remove.
I've dealt with AEFW in a prior tank, and the only thing that worked was dipping all of my SPS weekly for about 6 weeks (to be safe). I personally used REVIVE, but I'm sure others will work.
Good luck!
-Chad
I've dealt with AEFW in a prior tank, and the only thing that worked was dipping all of my SPS weekly for about 6 weeks (to be safe). I personally used REVIVE, but I'm sure others will work.
Good luck!
-Chad
If you want to dip for AEFW, i'd suggest some Bayer insecticide with Germ Killer at 4ml/l of tank water. Let them soak for about 10 minutes. I have effectively killed AEFW, Red Bugs and Montipora nudibranchs using this. Took 3 weeks, 1 dip per week followed by scraping any eggs off, but I haven't seen the return of any of the three pests in the past month now.
Seems to be safe on most sps (a. hyacinthus or however it's spelled does not react well to it). LPS and zoa's have shown no ill effects from what others have posted in the main thread discussing using bayer. One word of advice if you use it and your dipping a colony with a large surface area like, make sure you rinse it a few times before putting it back in the tank. You do not want large quantities of this stuff in your tank.
Seems to be safe on most sps (a. hyacinthus or however it's spelled does not react well to it). LPS and zoa's have shown no ill effects from what others have posted in the main thread discussing using bayer. One word of advice if you use it and your dipping a colony with a large surface area like, make sure you rinse it a few times before putting it back in the tank. You do not want large quantities of this stuff in your tank.
mr.wilson
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I'm more interested in an in-tank treatment and would be more comfortable using known aquarium-use dewormers, rather than that particular Bayer product. There are lots of oxidizers that would be just as effective and much less injurious to the coral, such as potassium permanganate, potassium dichromate, hydrogen peroxide, Revive (lemon & pine oils), merbromin or iodine. The problem isn't finding an effective dipping/bathing agent, it's doing the actual work, which is often impossible in many tanks.
Has anyone tried basting peroxide onto infected across? I don't know how much exposure they need and how fast it dissipates even with flow pumps off.
Has anyone tried basting peroxide onto infected across? I don't know how much exposure they need and how fast it dissipates even with flow pumps off.
JasonBJones
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Just wanted to check in and see how the tank is doing.
And for those of you wondering:
As my little tank approaches one year old, I can say it has been anything but a pleasure. The relearning curve wasn't bad, but I had several disasters.
Most of you know about the Kalk overdose followed by strange Greenwater event, I posted about it here:
Result, I lost 3 incredible colonies and most frags that several hobbyists/friends. Incredibly embarrassing. But there were survivors, even if they had lost a lot of ground.
Recovery was slow, but happened, things began growing as I would expect.
Then an AEFW outbreak that started out as slow and controllable began to go haywire as I got busier and busier and would miss days basting the infected pieces, they were suddenly on every colony I had. I basted regularly, 2-3x a day, and again, after hard work, I had recovery on my side again. At least that time I didn't lose any full colonies or frags. It didn't hurt that the damsel in the tank LOVES to eat them.
I was a happy camper until one day, out of the blue, this summer, RTN. I mean the full on head scratching "I quit" screw this hobby disaster type RTN, in a tank with pretty much nothing but Acros. Literally nothing discoverable was out of whack. First one, then 3 Acropora colonies. 100% water change finally allowed me to save tips from one branching colony, and patches survived on that samoensis-type. I have just recently begun to see that thickened edge that means recovery.
Oh yeah, did I mention everything Acropora that wasn't originally green is a lovely shade of sh*t brown?
This continual reinforcement of my discouragement made me realize, as Woody Harrelson so eloquently put it in Zombieland, time to nut up or shut up (shut down). I'm choosing the former.
For the past 9 months, it's been inches forward, a foot back.
The remaining coral livestock in the tank:
- Acropora monticulosa (First Acropora colony in the tank. Diver's Den. Can you believe that? The one coral that has come out of every mini tankpocalypse completely unscathed is a goddamn wild monticulosa!)
- Acropora samoensis (wild colony from Diver's Den, an RTN survivor)
- Acropora sp. (wild colony from Diver's Den, a kalk OD/Greenwater and AEFW survivor)
- Acropora sp. 'Incredible Hulk' (unscathed, pretty sure it's unkillable)
- Acropora sp. (some crazy fluorescent green maricultured one, not a slimer/yongei, RTN survivor, saved the tips).
- Acropora sp. (LFS frag, unscathed)
- Porites lutea (handles everything in stride and keeps growing like The Blob).
- Pocillopora eydouxii (unscathed)
- Montipora stellata (unscathed)
- Montipora setosa (unscathed)
- Seriatopora hystrix (RTN survivor)
- Agaricia agaricites (unscathed)
- Acropora efflorescens (the brown frag about 6" across I picked up for $25 this week)
Other than that, I have two T. croceas, a few Trochus, a bluefin/black damsel, and a rock boring urchin than I'm rather fond of when I get to see him. All the folks that have known me in the reef community for years know I have no interest in anything other SPS with the exception of Tubastrea.
Things have been stable since near the end of summer, and I have been a psycho nutjob about keeping everything perfect now, making myself make time for the tank basically. I have started to see regrowth in the last month or so. I didn't get anything new, even a frag, until I saw new growth and stability.
I can't say enough about what beginning to use vinegar in the kalkwasser/ATO has done for stability and alkalinity maintenance, either.
As my little tank approaches one year old, I can say it has been anything but a pleasure. The relearning curve wasn't bad, but I had several disasters.
Most of you know about the Kalk overdose followed by strange Greenwater event, I posted about it here:
Result, I lost 3 incredible colonies and most frags that several hobbyists/friends. Incredibly embarrassing. But there were survivors, even if they had lost a lot of ground.
Recovery was slow, but happened, things began growing as I would expect.
Then an AEFW outbreak that started out as slow and controllable began to go haywire as I got busier and busier and would miss days basting the infected pieces, they were suddenly on every colony I had. I basted regularly, 2-3x a day, and again, after hard work, I had recovery on my side again. At least that time I didn't lose any full colonies or frags. It didn't hurt that the damsel in the tank LOVES to eat them.
I was a happy camper until one day, out of the blue, this summer, RTN. I mean the full on head scratching "I quit" screw this hobby disaster type RTN, in a tank with pretty much nothing but Acros. Literally nothing discoverable was out of whack. First one, then 3 Acropora colonies. 100% water change finally allowed me to save tips from one branching colony, and patches survived on that samoensis-type. I have just recently begun to see that thickened edge that means recovery.
Oh yeah, did I mention everything Acropora that wasn't originally green is a lovely shade of sh*t brown?
This continual reinforcement of my discouragement made me realize, as Woody Harrelson so eloquently put it in Zombieland, time to nut up or shut up (shut down). I'm choosing the former.
For the past 9 months, it's been inches forward, a foot back.
The remaining coral livestock in the tank:
- Acropora monticulosa (First Acropora colony in the tank. Diver's Den. Can you believe that? The one coral that has come out of every mini tankpocalypse completely unscathed is a goddamn wild monticulosa!)
- Acropora samoensis (wild colony from Diver's Den, an RTN survivor)
- Acropora sp. (wild colony from Diver's Den, a kalk OD/Greenwater and AEFW survivor)
- Acropora sp. 'Incredible Hulk' (unscathed, pretty sure it's unkillable)
- Acropora sp. (some crazy fluorescent green maricultured one, not a slimer/yongei, RTN survivor, saved the tips).
- Acropora sp. (LFS frag, unscathed)
- Porites lutea (handles everything in stride and keeps growing like The Blob).
- Pocillopora eydouxii (unscathed)
- Montipora stellata (unscathed)
- Montipora setosa (unscathed)
- Seriatopora hystrix (RTN survivor)
- Agaricia agaricites (unscathed)
- Acropora efflorescens (the brown frag about 6" across I picked up for $25 this week)
Other than that, I have two T. croceas, a few Trochus, a bluefin/black damsel, and a rock boring urchin than I'm rather fond of when I get to see him. All the folks that have known me in the reef community for years know I have no interest in anything other SPS with the exception of Tubastrea.
Things have been stable since near the end of summer, and I have been a psycho nutjob about keeping everything perfect now, making myself make time for the tank basically. I have started to see regrowth in the last month or so. I didn't get anything new, even a frag, until I saw new growth and stability.
I can't say enough about what beginning to use vinegar in the kalkwasser/ATO has done for stability and alkalinity maintenance, either.
