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Great job on getting things moving on the studio. Looks like that's coming along nicely. Sorry to hear about the difficulties with the aiptasia, but I'm confident you'll get through it. I put berghia in my 50g tank to deal with my outbreak, and then after several months decided they'd probably failed...and then almost overnight, the aiptasia were gone. I think it just took them a lot longer than I expected. I'm hoping maybe that will be what you experience too.Hey Daniel, sorry to be slow to get back to you. Things are alright here! I can‘t complain at the moment. Been a bumpy road so far this year but I’m well. I’ve been working hard at getting my glass studio up and operational, so I’ve been putting long hours in working on making that a reality the last month or so. Progress is slow, since I’m doing this all myself but it’s getting there. (How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time). The tank has been getting along ok, I’ve neglected it a bit, I won’t lie. My aptasia problem has me down and overwhelmed but I’m sure I’m not alone in those regards. My berghia never seemed to do anything this time. So I don’t know what I’m going to do about it.
I’ve managed to get the ventilation hood up in the studio and have been working today on getting the mount to hang the ventilation fan so I can run the ductwork. Things are progressing, I’ll probably lift and mount the fan tomorrow. Hopefully sometime soon here I can start melting some glass.
That‘s also my hope with the berghia/aptasia situation, it’s been many many months now which is why my hopes are diminishing. I’m not sure when I introduced them but it was well over 6 months now. We’ll see. It’s funny after posting this I went to clean the glass to take a photo and my skimmer was overflowing and filled the whole sump with foam so I had to work on the tank today. Everything seems to be back in order but we all know how that goes. I might be in the market for a new skimmer before I know it. Lol. Thank you for checking on me, I appreciate it greatly!
Do you have any fish that would eat them Rick?That‘s also my hope with the berghia/aptasia situation, it’s been many many months now which is why my hopes are diminishing. I’m not sure when I introduced them but it was well over 6 months now. We’ll see. It’s funny after posting this I went to clean the glass to take a photo and my skimmer was overflowing and filled the whole sump with foam so I had to work on the tank today. Everything seems to be back in order but we all know how that goes. I might be in the market for a new skimmer before I know it. Lol. Thank you for checking on me, I appreciate it greatly!
Well I‘ve used berghia twice before with success and never had an issue. However the ochre lined cardinals are new since then and I suspect they’re eating them at night. They seem to be extremely active at night and they are definitely voracious eaters. I suspect that’s the issue. I’ll have to start looking for nudibranchs at night and see if I can find any traces of them.
It sure acted like a pep. shrimp that went bonkers than a cleaner shrimp.
Definitely keep me informed Freddie, It’s about time for me to refresh my reactor again but I haven’t managed to attain the momentum to do it yet. LolYeah,
That's a bummer, Rick
I've used the nudi's two times as well and they worked both times.
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Bought a cleaner shrimp a few years back, that dude never wanted to clean a fish during his time in our reef. Wiped out my 4" wide WWC OG bounce shroom, space invader pectinia and a few Aiptasia nens...
Just changed media's in my cal reactor this morning. Went with the new coarse Reborn in stage one. It's a lot smaller sized media than their original course media. If it has a lower melting point than the original I'll let you know.
Still got plenty (one year's worth) of the original, but wanted to try the new coarse Reborn.
The Tunze media was a good ride, but it all melted.
Glad that your studio is moving forward.
My second box of reborn that I got recently was pretty full of rocks and stones from what little I looked at. I’ll have to look at what’s in the one I snagged before that one and see if it’s any cleaner. I’m going to have to take care of it soon. Yeah my consumption went down signifcantly after I pulled a bunch of corals out too.
. I’ve been using a calcium reactor for the last 3 years now.
