My Innovative Marine SR60 upgrade

tbrown · Feb 24, 2023

steveschuerger said:
I wish I could. But I’m working evenings all weekend. I just want this done.

Bottle Trap with brine or something frozen. You might catch the Dottyback also but you can release him.

crusso1993 · Feb 24, 2023

tbrown3589 said:
Bottle Trap with brine or something frozen. You might catch the Dottyback also but you can release him.

Definitely worth a try!

MrsBugmaster · Feb 25, 2023

I have good luck using some egg crate or something like that and trap them in a corner. Then net them out!

steveschuerger · Feb 25, 2023

MrsBugmaster said:
I have good luck using some egg crate or something like that and trap them in a corner. Then net them out!

I went extreme, took rocks out. But they’re out.

steveschuerger · Feb 25, 2023

Well I evicted the Damsels after the damage they’ve caused in past and present on any Acro I try. Took the rocks out. And now everything is back in. On the one hand it was a pain to deal with, but did find that I’ve got more biodiversity than I thought. Ended up finding a total of 3 porcelain crabs, a red mithrax crab, 2 pistol shrimp and my BTA split into two smaller nems. Still have my pencil urchin and I assume a bunch of varied sized brittlle/serpent stars.

tbrown · Feb 25, 2023

steveschuerger said:
Well I evicted the Damsels after the damage they’ve caused in past and present on any Acro I try. Took the rocks out. And now everything is back in. On the one hand it was a pain to deal with, but did find that I’ve got more biodiversity than I thought. Ended up finding a total of 3 porcelain crabs, a red mithrax crab, 2 pistol shrimp and my BTA split into two smaller nems. Still have my pencil urchin and I assume a bunch of varied sized brittlle/serpent stars.

I'm hoping what's left makes a full recovery!

steveschuerger · Feb 26, 2023

New pics. Including some nice top view ones. New @SBB Corals are really settling in. The Acros are starting to show their polyps a bit, and the Gonis are staring to extend really nicely. I think I’ve got the rocks where I want to keep them, so I’ve been thinking on how to keep them in place. I think I might try to drill shallow holes and put plastic rods in to stabilize them. In fact part of my Secret Santa gift included plastic frag plugs to use with the Eshopps frag holder. I was thinking of gluing the flat ends of 2 together and using them as the supports.

steveschuerger · Mar 2, 2023

Nothing really new. Just a FTS and few others. Monti broke in 2 when I was trying to seat it on rocks. Decided to leave off for now until I get some more glue this weekend. Lost one more Acro to RTN.

RiptideAquaculture · Mar 2, 2023

Wow i really like the thread! so many pics!

MrsBugmaster · Mar 3, 2023

Monti’s always break on me. Sorry about the acro.

steveschuerger · Mar 9, 2023

Well all the newest Acros didn’t make it. Gonis are looking good however, so I’ll take it as a half/half. My Pocilophora and Stylophora are doing pretty good and a couple non SBB Acros are still alive from a month+ ago. Looking into getting inexpensive rodi and an adapter running from the shower head. It’s the only connection that’s standard from what I can tell. Anyways here’s latest pics. Rearranged the Gonis and glued several frags into place.

tbrown · Mar 9, 2023

steveschuerger said:
Well all the newest Acros didn’t make it. Gonis are looking good however, so I’ll take it as a half/half. My Pocilophora and Stylophora are doing pretty good and a couple non SBB Acros are still alive from a month+ ago. Looking into getting inexpensive rodi and an adapter running from the shower head. It’s the only connection that’s standard from what I can tell. Anyways here’s latest pics. Rearranged the Gonis and glued several frags into place.

So what I'm finding is my Acros like my phosphates closer to 0.1 but my Gonis like it closer to 0.01... my Gonis go all happy when my phosphates are almost nondetect and then my Acros start sulking. Do you know what your phosphates are?

crusso1993 · Mar 9, 2023

tbrown3589 said:
So what I'm finding is my Acros like my phosphates closer to 0.1 but my Gonis like it closer to 0.01... my Gonis go all happy when my phosphates are almost nondetect and then my Acros start sulking. Do you know what your phosphates are?

This is some great info! How do you maintain at .01?

tbrown · Mar 9, 2023

crusso1993 said:
This is some great info! How do you maintain at .01?

I don't. I usually shoot for 0.06-0.1 throughout the day.

tbrown · Mar 9, 2023

Between my sump and my display I have approximately 120-130 gallons of water I'm estimating. I dose 5 ml of NeoPhos every day and then once a week as needed I'll add a second 5 ml just to bump it back up some.

steveschuerger · Mar 9, 2023

tbrown3589 said:
So what I'm finding is my Acros like my phosphates closer to 0.1 but my Gonis like it closer to 0.01... my Gonis go all happy when my phosphates are almost nondetect and then my Acros start sulking. Do you know what your phosphates are?

I’m doing my tests today. See what happens. I’ll post results later this evening.