In tank treatment 90 gallon mixed SPS reef
In tank treatment 90 gallon mixed SPS reef
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Thats great pics I think we can work in tank with that even though you know Im a stickler for removal
just to placate try and remove at least one unconnected rock w corals
put peroxide on the bad parts only
let sit out of water 2 mins
rinse well and put back in to chart this die off as a test rock.
Your shrimp is the only sensitive in the tank, or any hosting anems if I missed them. your corals are not for the dilutions we will be using
the fish aren't either, I know of no marine fish kept in captivity that is. there probably is some, but in all peroxide threads Ive seen on the web I can't name one and thats a lot of commonly kept species.
so, the requested in tank diagnosis
underwater concentration technique from pages back.
instead of dosing the topwater, we need to start hitting each underwater patch over the course of weeks. no rush, we can fix this in about a month. you can tell from above pics that after shots are hard to come by and thats my charge lol, after we chat a few weeks of work is on ya and in the end, good or bad, pls update with excellent full tank shots like above. I give you a 95% chance of success. 5% chance of bleaching a few corals possibly if they are very sensitive, but I think not.
watch your alk dosing during in tank runs, dont spike it or drive it nice and high to keep up fast growth, just keep it safe but not spiked. do lots of nice refreshing water changes for export as needed, you can't do too many.
watch your light cycle, thats photo abuse during in tank runs lol. Typically we dont even jack with anything, just pick a safe dose and go, but if you want safety in the back pocket you watch for bleaching and reduce lighting and dosing if that occurs, then it will stop.
your tank will not recycle or lose benthic life from this, solid prediction Id like follow up on if you can to help us on our way.
I would use 3% for starters, worst case is we take this slow and not much of anything happens. Im in it to preserve non targets first, then possibly kill targets if we concoct a great approach.
start brainstorming with me on underwater concentration techniques:
get some diabetic syringes and needles
this can be as simple as turning off all your pumps for 5 mins, still the waters as much as possible, and slowly inject a known safe dose right into big patch #1
another option is brown pill bottle with hole in the bottom for needle access, you mount all this to your syringe setup and press it approximately on top of a patch and press/inject slowly, the bottle concentrates it just for a bit on the algae and then it all dissipates.
for starters, calculate to use 1 ml or 1 cc per ten gallons of total water volume, all your creatures except the shrimp can take that and even he just might. only inject one patch as your first test run, lets wait a few days and see how nontargets and targets react, wait about 4 days and then post back pics of that first underwater injection. make sure to turn off pumps, and externally treat any test rock you can muster the effort to take out.
thanks for posting I give you a great chance with this.
B
