d2mini's 200g Reeftastic Reef - Part Deux!

d2mini · Jul 11, 2015

Aquaph8 said:
I don't remember if I had gorgonians when I treated my tank, all 3 conchs came out fine though. It did kill green star polyps and Xenia, like you said, bonus!

How long did you let it go before turning on your skimmer, carbon and doing water changes?
It's crazy... the BCP are getting worse looking by the hour. haha

Civilized_drifter · Jul 11, 2015

I love it! I almost bought the same wheels for my 300zx. A downpipe and tune opened up a whole another door on my wax too.

Aquaph8 · Jul 11, 2015

I left it in 3 days. I had a thread about it here if you want to read it
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/killing-blue-cloves-with-fluke-tabs.86509/

Diesel · Jul 11, 2015

Why isn't this a STICKY thingie?? "Killing Blue Cloves"

Aquaph8 · Jul 12, 2015

Diesel said:
Why isn't this a STICKY thingie?? "Killing Blue Cloves"

Cause I've had about a hundred PMs from people looking for fluke tabs since I made that thread, LOL.

Diesel · Jul 12, 2015

Aquaph8 said:
Cause I've had about a hundred PMs from people looking for fluke tabs since I made that thread, LOL.

Even better...........$$$$$$ LOL!

d2mini · Jul 12, 2015

Here's the BCP after 36 hours.
Closed up, ticked off, thinning out.

d2mini · Jul 13, 2015

Added another post to the blog.

A little more on the frag tank setup and recent update.

http://www.everydayreef.com/blog/2015/7/12/the-frag-tank

d2mini · Jul 13, 2015

Further decimation of the BCP!
Another 24 hours.

Everything is now back online.
Carbon, skimmer, auto water changes (which i doubled).
Also had to bring the Mangrove tank back online. Fingers crossed I don't lose the pistol shrimp.

Gorgonians are still closed up.
Hoping they pull through. We shall see.

d2mini · Jul 16, 2015

So tomorrow night is a week since adding the Fluke Tabs.
Here is what's left of the BCP!

The only bummer out of all is I seem to have lost most of my beautiful gorgonians.

There are a couple left but not looking so good.
The ones that were in my Mangrove tank which I had offline for the first few days of treatment seem to be relatively ok so far.

And the only coral that seem affected are my two Stylophora. Not sure why?
But they are half closed and just generally ticked off looking.
All my other LPS and SPS look great.

Cleo642 · Jul 19, 2015

So sorry that happened.

dodger745 · Jul 20, 2015

Unrelated to the BCP, but do you ever have unwanted algae issues, hair algae, bubble algae, etc. ? If so what are your best prevention practices? I've been following your tanks for a couple years and was just curious.

d2mini · Jul 20, 2015

dodger745 said:
Unrelated to the BCP, but do you ever have unwanted algae issues, hair algae, bubble algae, etc. ? If so what are your best prevention practices? I've been following your tanks for a couple years and was just curious.

Hi, ever since I've started using real live rock and live sand from Tampa Bay Saltwater, I haven't had any unwanted algae to talk about.
I also keep tangs and a heavy clean up crew consisting of blue leg hermits, cerith snails, serpent stars, cucumbers, other various snails, fighting conches...
I also try not to overfeed, and my main staple of food is a high quality fresh frozen food like Larry's Reef Frenzy. Other typical frozen cubes and dry foods are a very small percentage of what I feed.
I do have to clean my glass every other day. The sand bed will get a layer of green on it if its not being stirred and sifted by CUC. And the rocks occasionally need to be blown off.
But nothing major like HA or BA outbreaks.

VJV · Jul 21, 2015

Out of curiosity, when you say "heavy clean up crew" how many are you actually using per gallon? This is one subject where I have seen completely different recommendations, ranging from one snail per gallon (reef cleaners recommends this) to little more than one per 10 gallons. Also, do you manage to keep your snails alive? Mine, in spite of lengthy acclimation usually last anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of months...

Thanks!

d2mini · Jul 21, 2015

VJV said:
Out of curiosity, when you say "heavy clean up crew" how many are you actually using per gallon? This is one subject where I have seen completely different recommendations, ranging from one snail per gallon (reef cleaners recommends this) to little more than one per 10 gallons. Also, do you manage to keep your snails alive? Mine, in spite of lengthy acclimation usually last anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of months...

Thanks!

I dunno exactly. If you read the contents of "The Package" here, this is what I start with. See the 200g column.
http://tbsaltwater.com/thepackage/package_chart.html

And last week i placed a refresh order with reef cleaners for 100 dwarf ceriths, 75 florida ceriths, 3 fighting conch, and 30 nassarius. Over time snails die off. My tank is way too big to keep track though.

VJV · Jul 21, 2015

Thanks!

d2mini · Jul 24, 2015

Just wanted to show off pics of my rocks completely free of BCP!!!
Can't even tell they were there, and I didn't even have to scrub them or anything.
The entire tank is clean and free of BCP.
Sayonara you little cockroaches!