This is what reef neglect looks like

I got a few new fish, a yellow tang and yellow wrasse. Here's some up to date pictures. (hopefully the tang will take care of this caulerpa)

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YIKES !! I hope you put that slime in a trash can several blocks away. PHEW ! Great save ! Clearly a very dedicated reefer.

May I suggest that you search the forums for "hydrogen peroxide algae control" ? I read a long thread on the subject a little while ago and it could help in control of future outbreaks. It really kills the stuff in 24 hours or less for green and 3 to 5 days for red or brown. One person describes draining the water level down and wiping the inside of the glass with a paper towel lightly dampened with H2O2 to prevent re-occurrence of even coraline.

Dosing methods and proportions are well described in the thread.

I'd post the link but my RC search capabilities are not working while using my lap top.

Best of luck.
 
sail33 said:
YIKES !! I hope you put that slime in a trash can several blocks away. PHEW ! Great save ! Clearly a very dedicated reefer.

May I suggest that you search the forums for "hydrogen peroxide algae control" ? I read a long thread on the subject a little while ago and it could help in control of future outbreaks. It really kills the stuff in 24 hours or less for green and 3 to 5 days for red or brown. One person describes draining the water level down and wiping the inside of the glass with a paper towel lightly dampened with H2O2 to prevent re-occurrence of even coraline.

Dosing methods and proportions are well described in the thread.

I'd post the link but my RC search capabilities are not working while using my lap top.

Best of luck.
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I tried it in post #44, but I don't like it because it is too damaging to xenia. It isn't very effective against caulerpa anyways unfortunately.
 
Your levels were down obviously, but other than being a nuisance, the algae will technically deal with the nasties in the water, which is probably why everything did alright.
 
I haven't seen this in a few years. My xenia is reproducing sexually. Here is a picture with one of the eggs circled.

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The yellow tang has mostly cleaned up the caulerpa problem. I did use a little bit of peroxide on 2 of the rocks, but it was mostly the yellow tang.

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New damsels and a heater since it is starting to get cold outside. Things are starting to look decent. I want to get a bicolor angel, yellow fiji leather, and a few gobies now. :)

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Amazing thread motivated me to clean up my freshwater tank after spending all my time and money on my reef. Some red head gobies or ORA yellow line gobies would be great additions for gobies unless you are looking for some larger species.
 
This school of damsels is displaying pretty amazing behavior. They move as a group at pretty much all times and will randomly retreat into the rocks all together. Very much like you would see a school of chromis doing in scuba videos. I have also witnessed them feasting on flatworms! I am 100% certain of this. I don't know if they are still just really hungry from starving at the store or what, but I saw them eating flatworms. Not just one either, but all of them as a group. They will pick them off the rocks and spit them in the water column, then they will each take bites until the flatworm is gone. There is also no aggressiveness whatsoever so far.
 
That's pretty amazing behaviour!
I wonder if/when they start to fight.

How is the cube doing.
Nice thread.
 
RoWall said:
That's pretty amazing behaviour!
I wonder if/when they start to fight.

How is the cube doing.
Nice thread.
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Thanks!

I am worried that the damsels might have brought a disease like ich into my tank since they have a few spots I noticed. Not really surprising since damsels are always kept in the most crowded damn tank in the pet shop. We'll see what happens, everything still seems rather healthy other than the couple of white spots. The bigger damsels also started picking on the smaller ones slightly, but nothing serious.

The cube is under my dad's supervision again, so it isn't doing great. The fish and gorgonians are doing fine as usual, but the rest is meh. I don't have the resources to support 2 tanks at my house, and I would prefer he keep one anyway, but I know some more t5s burned out and haven't been replaced. I will be going home for thanksgiving and will have a look. I will try to remember to take some pictures then.
 
I got more rock and a bicolor angel. Still haven't managed to get rid of the flatworms though. Also my mushrooms keep detaching which is really annoying. Finding a healthy yellow leather is surprisingly difficult.

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