I have the Stax rock myself and love it. I really like what you did with it. Any chance of a new FTS to see your progress?
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I went through an epic Dinoflagellate battle with this tank. It was a nightmare but has now started to turn the corner. The next item on the list is Aptasia.... ughit is what it is... if anything, rest assured its nothing one of us (or probably all of us) has not encountered.
I have read that it is possible to just cover them in a small pile of rubble. the Aptasia moves to the surface and can then be just picked up in its entirety. Sort of like the ones in the sand could just be scooped up and taken out. the rest your file fish will take care of.
before you know it, you will be back on track. That aquascaping really is pretty cool..
It was the worst case of Dino’s I’ve ever had out of any tank I’ve ever run, but I learned a lot and now have a great way to destroy them.I went through dinos in my waterbox as well. I got a CBB to take care of my aips and he did a great job.
So all said and done did you end up using the entire 120lbs of STAX in this build? I'm considering it for my next build, whenever that happens haha Your scape turned out great though, I imagine the back wall will be a breeze to glue corals onto once your ready to start adding more! Too bad about the aiptasias, algaes I can deal with but living pests are the worst to deal with. I almost shut down my old 75 years ago because of them but a CBB single handedly eliminated them for me in the display at least. Sounds like you'll be in good hands with the filefish!
How did you get all the aptasia if you started with the stax? Did I miss something in the thread.
Those are nice but I’ve had some that did well and others that haven’t. This file fish has knocked out about half of them in 2 days.My CBB took care of my aiptasia problem.