Anderson Family Reef - Concrete Aquarium DIY 5K All The Way (Page 33)

[McPuff]

Thanks for the feedback!! The corals are taking off... I'll get an updated video up here soon... last one was 2 months ago...

Sorry, was being a bit cheeky. Really, just to say the tank looks incredible.

 

[dca22anderson]

Sorry, was being a bit cheeky. Really, just to say the tank looks incredible.

I love it! I totally get that you are being cheeky! Thanks for the kind words!

 

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Front view update... corals growing...

 

[dca22anderson]

Filtration room, bins and back view

 

[dca22anderson]

Top downs:

 

[dca22anderson]

Well it’s not always glorious, this started a few days after I took the top down pic...

You can actually see it starting to go underneath...

So of course I spent the last few days testing water and racking my brain to try and understand what may have been the cause. Good news is it seems to have stopped about halfway across the colony... water change and cleaning in the mix for today and I’ll get a better picture of how far it died off...

 

[cmaxwell39]

Is it just the one colony?

It is always a bummer when corals start to TN, especially when all the parameters are saying they should be just fine.

Hope it stabilizes and in a few weeks it is just a bad memory.

 

[dca22anderson]

Is it just the one colony?

It is always a bummer when corals start to TN, especially when all the parameters are saying they should be just fine.

Hope it stabilizes and in a few weeks it is just a bad memory.

It’s still slowly going, yes, only one colony of pacilipora now STNing, I have other colonies of the same coral that are unbothered in the show

 

[dca22anderson]

Here’s what I do since the colony didn’t stop STNing:
Remove it from the display:

Isolate the colony in a dip container:

here are the tools I use:

Cut a few frags that are away from the infection, dip them per product instructions, rinse in clean tank water, glue the frags to a new rock/frag plugs:

Put the treated frags in a place where they can be easily observed and treated again if needed:

Sometimes this works to save a few new frags to regrow...I’ll keep you posted on progress

 

[McPuff]

I had a similar situation with a few large colonies over the summer. No apparent reason but I had to chop quite a bit of coral and was thankfully able to save mini colonies so I could start over (with those corals). Better than the alternative!

 

[dca22anderson]

I had a similar situation with a few large colonies over the summer. No apparent reason but I had to chop quite a bit of coral and was thankfully able to save mini colonies so I could start over (with those corals). Better than the alternative!

Thanks for your response! Hope to have a similar result! Fingers crossed

 

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Paid a little visit to one of my Reefer buddies in Boise, Chris Garlock’s 10’6”x5’x30” system. Cliff Stradling and I brought him some corals...

 

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Rainbow pacilipora doing well in the bin!!