Trick or Treat from your reef tank? Happy Halloween!

revhtree · Oct 31, 2019

Happy Halloween from us at Reef2Reef and trick or treat!

Sometimes or tank tricks us and sometimes it treats us! Today's question of the day pertains to what you hate and what you love so hit me up with some answers to the following questions.

1. What do you HATE (trick) about your current reef tank?

2. What do you LOVE (treat) about your current reef tank?

Daniel@R2R · Oct 31, 2019

Mine keeps reproducing anemones... aiptasia anemones...

revhtree · Oct 31, 2019

Daniel@R2R said:
Mine keeps reproducing anemones... aiptasia anemones...

spooooooky!

azbigjohn · Oct 31, 2019

I recently fell back in love with my tank. For the past year, real life got in the way, and hair algae took control.

Life has gotten much better, and I have been able to spend a little time each day improving it, cleaning it, and have new fish and corals in QT!

Iván Olalla · Oct 31, 2019

TRICK
i hate: loosing zoas to other zoas...the war for space is fierce and no room to grow, also cant put anything in the tank due to space

TREAT
i love: at it´s two years the pico reef pretty much is in cruise control by itself, fully packed and the chemistry and bioload in balance, low maintenance with rock solid numbers, 10% wc every 10 days, fresh batch of saturated kalk in the container, scrap glass, fill ATO... no more than 1 hour including testing....weekly dosing of acropower and coral feeding and that´s it... very difficult at first to mantain the chemistry and husbandry in such a small volume of water, but a very rewarding outcome

MombasaLionfish · Oct 31, 2019

Trick:
Having ich twice.
Treat:
Coming home to happy fish and growing corals.

vetteguy53081 · Oct 31, 2019

Recovery from Dino and watching everything fully open and growing. One of my hammers (4 head in early August, now 12 head and showing babies)

Chukthunder · Oct 31, 2019

Hate: Polyp corals which die even though they're rated as beginner
Love: Chalice coral which keeps growing even though it's considered to require more care

Emerson · Oct 31, 2019

Tricked...had a healthy growing reef for 18 mos, then bottomed out PO4 and NO3 fighting cyano. That led to dinos and browning & dying SPS, LPS, and clam; raising P04 and NO3 to measurable levels, all parameters in range, and a year later has led to red turf algae battle and continued SPS browning/dying. Adding MicroBacter7 in hopes of getting on the right side of the beneficial bacteria war. Here's hopin'!

Dragon52 · Oct 31, 2019

Tricked: I can't seem to keep some corals in my tank.

Treat: Other corals do great in my tank

Topreefer92 · Oct 31, 2019

Trick: Money that needs to be spent when things start going wrong. That shouldn't be my excuse because I knew 10 years ago what I was getting into.

Treat: Coral growth and solving the puzzle that is reefing. The development of a sustainable eco-system is the most rewarding thing ever!

Stevel · Oct 31, 2019

revhtree said:
Happy Halloween from us at Reef2Reef and trick or treat!

Sometimes or tank tricks us and sometimes it treats us! Today's question of the day pertains to what you hate and what you love so hit me up with some answers to the following questions.

1. What do you HATE (trick) about your current reef tank?

2. What do you LOVE (treat) about your current reef tank?

Hate ?? Not being big enough and that’s mostly on me my pockets are not deep enough.
Love? I truly enjoy the satisfaction of creating a little ocean world in my living room

Admann · Oct 31, 2019

Tricks: All the little things a reef does to keep you on your toes.
Treats: The constant discovery of emerging and passing life forms, the little miracles you get to witness.

The biggest trick that turned into a treat for me is finding out I won't have to get rid of my tanks (long story). I will have to shutdown my 45, but I will be able to do the new 100 I have and was trying to sell. Not anymore, yay me

jessie45 · Oct 31, 2019

Trick: Hurt my back and then had to have surgery. My tank was an absolute mess and there was nothing I could do for it except watch it degrade and my corals were dying.

Treat: I am well enough again to clean and do water changes again. I dose microbacter7 and vibrant with each water change. My tank and coral could not be happier.

Auquanut · Oct 31, 2019

Trick: Coral warfare. (Need to frag.)

Treat: Corals are growing well enough to go to war with each other.

MTBake · Oct 31, 2019

Looks more like Christmas around my house right now.

Record amount of snow fall on Halloween for my area.

Crabs McJones · Oct 31, 2019

Trick: all your corals are going to die, and you're never going to know the exact cause.
On the rebound now, but I still cannot pinpoint exactly what the issue was.

Auquanut · Oct 31, 2019

Crabs McJones said:
Trick: all your corals are going to die, and you're never going to know the exact cause.
On the rebound now, but I still cannot pinpoint exactly what the issue was.

Foul! You gotta have a treat!