Me and My 4g Reef

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feather duster spawned after the big water change ;Wideyed

 

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Pulled out a lot of algae out, then got my snails in. Already looking better!
1st picture: before cleaning
2nd: after manual removal
3rd: after 24h with snails!!

 

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Didn’t get home until after lights out today, but it’s looking so much better!

 

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A couple late night gremlins

 

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Looking so much better

 

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the Picture with the blenny and his algae mane is just amazing

 

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the Picture with the blenny and his algae mane is just amazing

Thanks!! It’s bc he’s too mean to let the snails into his space

 

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Everything’s still going great! The snails are doing an amazing job

 

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I just noticed this on my acropora, not sure what it’s from. I pulled it out to take a look and didn’t see any flatworms or anything, but I’m going to look again after lights out. The snails were on it yesterday eating off the plug but I’ve never heard of them doing this.

 

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It’s been awhile since I posted! I’ve been busy with school, but it’s spring break so I’ve got some time for updates now.

Unfortunately I had another small dino outbreak, which killed all my snails, allowing the algae to come back full force. So I’m back to square one on that. I guess the bright side is that I know the snails can take care of the algae, so once the dinos are gone it’ll be ok.
Ive seen a lot more little critters in the tank recently - the feather dusters had another spawning event and there’s little babies everywhere, there was a boom in copepods (which I thought had died off) and the mini brittle stars seem to be splitting more!

 

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I just noticed this on my acropora, not sure what it’s from. I pulled it out to take a look and didn’t see any flatworms or anything, but I’m going to look again after lights out. The snails were on it yesterday eating off the plug but I’ve never heard of them doing this.

Turns out the snail just munched on it, healed up fine!

 

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Baby feather dusters!

 

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The dinos and algae (I think it’s cladophoropsis) are at a stand off - algae consumes all the nutrients, dinos come out because there’s no nutrients, can’t get rid of the algae because the dinos kill the snails.

considering turning to something like vibrant if doesn’t clear back up soon

 

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Three month’s difference! ;Joyful

 

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snake polyps looking happy

 

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looked at some samples under a microscope, turns out I have coolia dinos as well as the ostreopsis now.

 

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looked at some samples under a microscope, turns out I have coolia dinos as well as the ostreopsis now.

Oh no! It has been the trials and tribulations for this tank, I’m sorry

 

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Oh no! It has been the trials and tribulations for this tank, I’m sorry

Thanks! ;Sorry
my only loses so far have been my snails, so I’m thankful for that at least

 

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Thanks! ;Sorry
my only loses so far have been my snails, so I’m thankful for that at least

You are getting the full reefing experience! Knock on wood, but all I’ve had to deal with was some minor bryopsis. (Fluconazole DESTROYS that and all other algae btw)