The Life of Blue Spots Tank 1800L

The Life of Blue Spots Tank 1800L

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Well it's day 6 of treatment and all byropsis has virtually dissapeard . The change is quite remarkable . A couple of strands left , but what is left so far is very thin and whispy . If anyone has byropsis , try this treatment , I've tried everything. No negative effects on coral fish or anemonies. Even if it comes back (which I hope it doesn't) I could do this treatment again and live with the results. Just for reference I think I followed the instructions pretty well to the thread, I removed all carbon and gfo and skimmer cup. Mixed in 10,000mg of fish fluc in ro water, added it to the main display in front of the power head , turned off all lights for 24 hrs, then changed my radions to white green and red only channels on 100% for 7 hrs with a large ramp up and down cycle lasting 12 hrs in total. I still carried on dosing vibrant (40 ml per week) as mentioned in a previous pot this has virtually eradicated bubble algae.
So I'm nearly their for pest erradication, I'm now left with a couple of , aptasia , I've got a couple in the main display...... and 400 in the overflow. don't think I'm going to mess with this. I also have asterina starfish , I had these in my old tank and got rid of these with a harlequin shrimp , but in this tank I'm worried about adding 1 , because I'm not sure what my tasseled filefish will do (I know she eats crabs , but I have blood shrimp and cleaner shrimp she doesn't touch) I also have a huge chocolate chip starfish , which they will definitely eat. I know these are reported as coral eaters but had mine for over a year with no impact on coral (other than pushing them off the rocks)
Today's a good day , fish tank wise :)
 
Good work Bluespot. Glad things are moving in the right direction. Glad you have the documentation on it too.

Maybe draw it up a little bit more wordy and direction orientated for a new reefer and make a new post with your pictures and documented results.

That way I know those that helped and gave ideas can chime in and help out some too.
 
Good idea worm. If you read 1 page back jp left a link to the full correct instructions. I have no idea how to leave a link to a thread sorry. But this is what I followed .
 
Just to give another update. Day 9 , byropsis gone . I am down to 3 very tiny hairy tufts . Completely unbelievable !!!
 
Blue spot said:
Just to give another update. Day 9 , byropsis gone . I am down to 3 very tiny hairy tufts . Completely unbelievable !!!
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That must feel like a big weight off your shoulders. :)
I bookmarked the instructions for future (hopefully I don't need it).
 
Van , I can't tell you, it's been bugging me for so long, people would come in and say the tank looked lovely , all I could see was this stuff, really spoiling it for me , so i have been on pause for so long now I'm ready to go , that being said , I'm going to wait (although it's going to kill me) and make sure nothing returns . If it's good I'm going to rescape and start again, but at least I can leave my fish in the tank .
 
I've finished treatment

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ignore the lights please . last day of treatment so super green looking light. but i think you can see how this treatment has cut down the byropsis
 
now under the byropsis I found these. very pretty , but look to be spreading . they look like some kind of small feather duster . dose anyone know if these things spread ? before I start to rebuild the tank I don't want to find I have another invasive creature know matter how pretty.

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Great vid! What an excellent spot for him to take up residence. You can always know where he is. He will also be easy to spot-feed.

The tube worms are a good indication of a healthy tank. Yes, they will spread if you continue to maintain good water quality and tank health, but they won't interfere with anything else so I would consider them a sign of success, not something to worry about. Actually, I have tried to transplant these into a tank with no luck, so I am envious of your success with these. They are a part of a truly natural reef system.

Dave.M
 
Just got to hope it stay away now. So tomorrow is lights back on , water change. Sump swap , I'm going to put my algae in first chamber the skimmer and everything else in the second . The only downside I can see of this is if pods will still make it from sump to display, but I am trying to follow triton so I'll try it. I was then going to hoover out all those worms , but after reading what Dave has put I'm going to keep them , Dave you better not be winding me up and in 6 months time I'm on here whining about a worm attack . Lol
 
Blue spot said:
now under the byropsis I found these. very pretty , but look to be spreading . they look like some kind of small feather duster . dose anyone know if these things spread ? before I start to rebuild the tank I don't want to find I have another invasive creature know matter how pretty.

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If you don't want them, I'd love to have them for my macro algae tank. If only there was a way to get them here :(
 
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