Hi y'all...
So due to some strange circumstances, I am upgrading my aquarium.
backstory: I have had a 65 gallon tank for three years...for some odd reason, I haven't been able to keep the "easy" corals but the "hard" ones to keep thrive. Xenia's and Mushrooms wither, Zoas do well for a while, grow thrive but then I loose 1/2 of the colony. The crazy thing is that my hammers/torches and other LPS/SPS go bananas.
Ive had recently some strange goopy white algae all over my rock- no matter what i do it comes back. Water chemistry is textbook, I've even sent it off to get analyzed...Perfect results.
All the water parameters are great. Have done a pile of water changes over the years...don't know what the problem could be. The only guess I have is that when I rinsed the dry sand for the sand bed, I used a bucket that I had in the garage that may have had some soapy residue. Other than that, no clue.
SO...I changed jobs and will be working from home. I am moving my home office and have room for a 48" tank now. I ordered a Red Sea 350 and plan on setting it up and transferring the live bits over.
Starting with new live sand for sure and probably also all new rock. Or maybe dip my current rock in hydrogen peroxide to kill the algae.
What do you all think I should do?
So due to some strange circumstances, I am upgrading my aquarium.
backstory: I have had a 65 gallon tank for three years...for some odd reason, I haven't been able to keep the "easy" corals but the "hard" ones to keep thrive. Xenia's and Mushrooms wither, Zoas do well for a while, grow thrive but then I loose 1/2 of the colony. The crazy thing is that my hammers/torches and other LPS/SPS go bananas.
Ive had recently some strange goopy white algae all over my rock- no matter what i do it comes back. Water chemistry is textbook, I've even sent it off to get analyzed...Perfect results.
All the water parameters are great. Have done a pile of water changes over the years...don't know what the problem could be. The only guess I have is that when I rinsed the dry sand for the sand bed, I used a bucket that I had in the garage that may have had some soapy residue. Other than that, no clue.
SO...I changed jobs and will be working from home. I am moving my home office and have room for a 48" tank now. I ordered a Red Sea 350 and plan on setting it up and transferring the live bits over.
Starting with new live sand for sure and probably also all new rock. Or maybe dip my current rock in hydrogen peroxide to kill the algae.
What do you all think I should do?
I would not nuke my good mature live rock with H2O2.
