Hi All,
I've been working over the past few months on setting up a brand new reef tank (check my build thread). I wanted to do everything by the book so I started the tank from dry rock, did a fishless cycle, am in the process of setting up two QT tanks (one coral / one fish) and reading everything I can to minimize any chance of issues in my display tank.
On friday, I added a few snails & hermits to my display tank to keep the cycle going and picked up a bioblock I had been seeding in my LFS' display tank. The bioblack had a ton of life on it when I brought it home including some nice macroalgae and a few little brittle stars. I dropped it into the tank and everything has been humming along nicely.
This morning, I went to do some work on the sump and realized I got a little Aiptasia attached to the bioblock (see photo below). As luck would have it, I guess this is what I get for using store seeded biomaterial .
My question to you all is - what do I do? I really don't want to throw the whole block out, but at the same time, I don't want to infect my pristine new tank. I've inspected the whole block thoroughly and this is the only one I can see, but of course, I don't trust that. I've thought about boiling the whole block, but that will kill off everything and defeat the purpose of having it. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
I've been working over the past few months on setting up a brand new reef tank (check my build thread). I wanted to do everything by the book so I started the tank from dry rock, did a fishless cycle, am in the process of setting up two QT tanks (one coral / one fish) and reading everything I can to minimize any chance of issues in my display tank.
On friday, I added a few snails & hermits to my display tank to keep the cycle going and picked up a bioblock I had been seeding in my LFS' display tank. The bioblack had a ton of life on it when I brought it home including some nice macroalgae and a few little brittle stars. I dropped it into the tank and everything has been humming along nicely.
This morning, I went to do some work on the sump and realized I got a little Aiptasia attached to the bioblock (see photo below). As luck would have it, I guess this is what I get for using store seeded biomaterial .
My question to you all is - what do I do? I really don't want to throw the whole block out, but at the same time, I don't want to infect my pristine new tank. I've inspected the whole block thoroughly and this is the only one I can see, but of course, I don't trust that. I've thought about boiling the whole block, but that will kill off everything and defeat the purpose of having it. Any thoughts would be appreciated!