PghReef
Well-Known Member
So I had my tank cycled with dry rock, added a bunch of cured kpaquatics liverock, then a small CUC, then corals and more cuc. Had it fallow from fish for about 6 months to be safe with any pest from the liverock and corals. During this time I noticed small tufts start to grow which im pretty sure is bryopsis, a little turf algae, small bubbles of green bubble algae, and a few patches of dictoya. I even noticed some other macros I did not ID but figured I was going to be in for a battle at some point and would scrape and rasp a little with every waterchange.
Well a week ago now I transferred my fish over finally. 2 clowns, a blue Hippo, a tomini, a Melanarus wrasse, and a lemonpeel angel. Within the week any algae is about 95% gone! Even the dictoya, basically eradicated! I see both tangs and the angel picking at rocks constantly so not sure who to be praising but someone did a nice job.
On a side note the lemonpeel has not a good choice. Within 2 days sps PE gone, some with white flesh and missing polyps, zoas remain closed, and candycanes shriveled. Took 3 days but finally caught her and she is now living in the basement tank of extras where all new purchases go prior to a qt. Within 24 hours already I'm seeing improvement in my corals. Hopefully it's the tangs and not her that were responsible for eating all that algae. I do have a minute amount of cyano that I never had in the previous 6 months, I'm thinking this is from crazy overfeeding luring the angel into a bait trap took a lot more food then I would have liked.
Well a week ago now I transferred my fish over finally. 2 clowns, a blue Hippo, a tomini, a Melanarus wrasse, and a lemonpeel angel. Within the week any algae is about 95% gone! Even the dictoya, basically eradicated! I see both tangs and the angel picking at rocks constantly so not sure who to be praising but someone did a nice job.
On a side note the lemonpeel has not a good choice. Within 2 days sps PE gone, some with white flesh and missing polyps, zoas remain closed, and candycanes shriveled. Took 3 days but finally caught her and she is now living in the basement tank of extras where all new purchases go prior to a qt. Within 24 hours already I'm seeing improvement in my corals. Hopefully it's the tangs and not her that were responsible for eating all that algae. I do have a minute amount of cyano that I never had in the previous 6 months, I'm thinking this is from crazy overfeeding luring the angel into a bait trap took a lot more food then I would have liked.
