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[SashimiTurtle]

Well, that makes me feel a bit better about the situation. Still not happy it died, but glad to have an answer. My params have been rock steady except a rise in nutrients

Molting is tough. Try ripping all your skin off and growing new skin in a day or two. Iodine helps inverts molt, and also helps corals fight bacterial infections. Just get a test kit before dosing anything tho.

 

[living_tribunal]

I am desperate for gha because I just beat dinos and I dont want to give them the opportunity to come back. In any normal situation I wouldn't feel the same.

Do you have film algae or anything?

Maybe go buy a frag from that guy with the dirty tank.

 

[12gallonsofhex]

Do you have film algae or anything?

Maybe go buy a frag from that guy with the dirty tank.

No, i have a weird macro algae that I forget the name of and a small piece of lettuce looking algae. I messed up after the cycle and cleared out all gha 8 months ago, then added chaeto which took up all the nutrients

 

[SashimiTurtle]

He's out... lots of color loss from stress, but he ate a few baby brine and I'll feed blood worms tonight. Also got him to flare for the mirror. He looks healthy for traveling around the world.

The baby apistos will be removed here soon. I'm thinking maybe a few ember tetras for tank mates.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

No, i have a weird macro algae that I forget the name of and a small piece of lettuce looking algae. I messed up after the cycle and cleared out all gha 8 months ago, then added chaeto which took up all the nutrients

Maybe its ulva? It's called "sea lettuce" for a reason... incredibly hard to get rid of on rocks, but the great thing is tangs LOVE it... if you have a tank large enough for a tang. A small blenny should destroy it also if not, but not as quickly as a tang would.

 

[12gallonsofhex]

Maybe its ulva? It's called "sea lettuce" for a reason... incredibly hard to get rid of on rocks, but the great thing is tangs LOVE it... if you have a tank large enough for a tang. A small blenny should destroy it also if not, but not as quickly as a tang would.

I have a 20long. I would be in for 25 to life if the tang police caught me.

 

[12gallonsofhex]

Its a tiny piece on my zoa mountain. I can take the rock out and brush it off this weekend

 

[living_tribunal]

No, i have a weird macro algae that I forget the name of and a small piece of lettuce looking algae. I messed up after the cycle and cleared out all gha 8 months ago, then added chaeto which took up all the nutrients

That’s what happened to me.

I added tang heaven, Chaeto, and that lettuce stuff for pods in my fuge, ran photoperiod for 16 hours a day, params went to 0

Tang heaven sucks nutrients like nothing else.

 

[Why-Me]

@Why-Me how is the vibrant + fluc incursion going?

Fluc worked wonders on all the GHA that was overgrowing my frags and my rockwork.
Tried to do big WC today but only had 8 gal on hand.
So now I'm making water and will do a much larger WC on Saturday.
So far, though anecdotal, the fluc works great and the vibrant I'm not sure yet.
I only dosed vibrant once, two days after fluc treatment.
Once things stabilize I plan to use Microbacter 7 or vibrant on a small continuous dose for a length of time to see the long term effects.
Today I dosed microbacter 7 with my WC.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I have a 20long. I would be in for 25 to life if the tang police caught me.

20long are great size. I have one I want to turn into a zoa frag tank. I have a 2 bulb 24" T5 that would be perfect over it.

 

[living_tribunal]

Fluc worked wonders on all the GHA that was overgrowing my frags and my rockwork.
Tried to do big WC today but only had 8 gal on hand.
So now I'm making water and will do a much larger WC on Saturday.
So far, though anecdotal, the fluc works great and the vibrant I'm not sure yet.
I only dosed vibrant once, two days after fluc treatment.
Once things stabilize I plan to use Microbacter 7 or vibrant on a small continuous dose for a length of time to see the long term effects.
Today I dosed microbacter 7 with my WC.

I’d be really careful at this point to note wipe out everything. You’re smacking all algae at every angle, I’d just do vibrant for another month and leave it at that.

Also, vibrant takes a long time to work from my understanding. The brs video showed two months for every algae tested

 

[Why-Me]

I’d be really careful at this point to note wipe out everything. You’re smacking all algae at every angle, I’d just do vibrant for another month and leave it at that.

Also, vibrant takes a long time to work from my understanding. The brs video showed two months for every algae tested

Not going to dose vibrant.
Maybe in 2 weeks or so.
Going to get things stable again first before I decide to do anything.

 

[living_tribunal]

I wish I snagged a picture of it but the wrasse and blenny were hanging out for a moment!

The blenny is coming out more and more every time I look at the tank.

I swear he eats more than the wrasse does.

Both were able to finish a quarter mysis cube no problem.

I think I have a pair of healthy fish on my hands!

 

[12gallonsofhex]

20long are great size. I have one I want to turn into a zoa frag tank. I have a 2 bulb 24" T5 that would be perfect over it.

There was a 24 inch ati hybrid fixture on the local reef sales page on fb for $100. It sold so quickly, but I tried to buy it

 

[living_tribunal]

@Why-Me what do you think of microbacter 7 so far?

 

[Why-Me]

@Why-Me what do you think of microbacter 7 so far?

I used it to seed my 40b initially.
That tank started with all dry rock from @reefcleaners and one rock full of algae from the 20 gallon I transferred the fish and corals from.
It worked well for that but I forgot I had the stuff and quit dosing before the once a week low nutrient dosing for long term stability.
I actually started today.
1 capful =5ml per 50gal once per week, turn off skimmer for 4hrs after dosing.

 

[Magellan]

Fish emergency! Quick, I need 7 different opinions.

today was a normal tank day. However. I did something different. Why? I saw something on the internets.

I normally dose about 80% of a capful of alk (4ml) at some point in the evening after lights out. I saw a post recently talking about how it’s better to dose alk in the morning because alk consumption is higher during the day than at night. This made sense. I thought, hmmmm what’s the best way to switch that up...so after my water change yesterday I didn’t dose alk (the wc water is just a bit higher than my tanks “norm” so it was a good time...”norm” is between 7.5-8) and then today I was going to dose earlier but a busyyyy day happened and I didn’t get to it until 6:00. Still much earlier than normal, midnightish is when I usually dose. However, I never dose with the lights on. About 15 minutes after that my 6 line wrasse went nuts. That mother trucker decided “today is the DAY!” and started harassing my blenny. Repeatedly. The blenny mostly tolerated him but the wrasse persisted, and he has grown while my blenny has not. (7ish months ago the blenny easily punked him, but now the wrasse has more confidence). Mostly it seemed like the wrasse just wanted the blenny to swim fast so he could chase him..my dog does the same thing when he wants to play. But more mean spirited than my dog. I turned my lights off and he settled down immediately. Is he just establishing dominance...? (Did he decide he wanted to move up a spot on the totem pole). Or was he just really irritated by the alk? 4ml is not much for 28g of water..and my tank gets that every 24 hours anyway.

What have I done?! I love my wrasse, but he doesn’t eat algae and the toilet is in his future if this keeps up.

 

[Why-Me]

I'll be one of the 7 opinions
I'd say the last thing it would be is the alk.
I'd say it's a dominance thing, especially if he was the one being picked on before.
Just my opinion.

 

[Magellan]

I'll be one of the 7 opinions
I'd say the last thing it would be is the alk.
I'd say it's a dominance thing, especially if he was the one being picked on before.
Just my opinion.

He never got picked on though. I added the blenny after him like a fool, and got lucky because the blenny was larger. When the wrasse tried to pick on him, (right away!) the lawnmower bit him on the side, and there were never any problems after that. That was 7+ months ago...would a fish hold a 7 month grudge??!

 

[Why-Me]

He never got picked on though. I added the blenny after him like a fool, and got lucky because the blenny was larger. When the wrasse tried to pick on him, (right away!) the lawnmower bit him on the side, and there were never any problems after that. That was 7+ months ago...would a fish hold a 7 month grudge??!

No wouldn't think so.