Turtle's Fairy Tale

[Fudsey]

You have a 2nd tank running don't you???

 

[SashimiTurtle]

You have a 2nd tank running don't you???

Yes, no lights or filtration other than a very small clump of chaeto really, and there's a monti eating dwarf angel in there. It'll be fine. The only one I can't get back is the purple with green polpys... and I have a hunch it came in on that one.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Tank parameters.

Alkalinity, stable.

Calcium, yeesh... dosed 300ml of calcium chloride solution. Enough to bring up my Ca by 50ppm per the BRS calculator going off of the 60g total water volume figured out by reverse engineering my alk dose.

Magnesium looks good from where I had to dose it up the other week.

Salinity is a bit low, added 1 gallon of 1.026 to 3 gallons of RODI in top off. We'll let the salinity come up slow and keep an eye on it.

Nitrates, I finally have nitrates. Now let's not blow past where we want them and keep them in the 5ppm range.

Phosphates. 0.01-0 range. Too low. Lost JKR Wild Irish Rose last night to RTN, but it has been looking like it would let go any minute. Too long with high phosphates, then slammed thru the floor probably did it in. JKR Apocalypse Now still looks good, trachy was sulking today along with my trumpets. Blue Sympodium fully open, but not as vibrant as usual. GFO is removed from sump.

I also stuck my arm in the tank and manually scraped the sides and back with the blade on my Flipper Nano. It isn't strong enough thru 1/2" glass to get all the stubborn film algae off. I need to order the regular size Flipper. The back glass was covered in very hard film algae and a little gha. That is all gone. I added a filter sock to catch all the debris and will remove it tonight before bed.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

What is an update without photos?

FTS after scraping algae, Kessils are on Ramp down.

Still ticked off from cleaning algae. They'll open up tomorrow.

Not happy with no phosphates... trachy going to sleep also.

The rest looks good. That WWC Green Lantern Cyphastrea even encrusted on the bottom of the frag plug. It was past time to glue it. Once it encrusts onto the rock a good way, I'm going to pop that plug off. I hate looking at a frag plug right in the middle of an encrusting coral that won't branch up and hide it.

Here is the WYSIWYG photo from when I bought the cyphastrea, with two from today befor I cut the plug and glued it.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Looks good! Man, I love that aquascape.

 

[Katrina71]

Looking good.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Filter sock last night before bed. All the algae I scraped yesterday.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Also have some sponges growing. Pineapple sponge and some sort of clear tube sponge. Not sure exact name.

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[SashimiTurtle]

Burgundy coraline spreading!!! Yes, it really is that dark red color!

 

[Fudsey]

Burgundy coraline spreading!!! Yes, it really is that dark red color!

Naaaaa... That's cyano :p :p :p :rolleyes:

 

[Brew12]

Naaaaa... That's cyano :p :p :p :rolleyes:

lol Hush you!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Naaaaa... That's cyano :p :p :p :rolleyes:

Lol... ;Woot no, but this is. Was three times that size before I removed it by hand this weekend. ;Facepalm Cropped from an old FTS.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Just so we know what we are dealing with here.... bryposis?

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Yes, that is a snail covered in algae.

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[Brew12]

Just so we know what we are dealing with here.... bryposis?

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Yes, that is a snail covered in algae.

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Yup, Bryopsis. Wasn't sure with the first pic, but I can see the palm frond shape on the 2nd one. Time for Fluco!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Yup, Bryopsis. Wasn't sure with the first pic, but I can see the palm frond shape on the 2nd one. Time for Fluco!

Yea, I wasn't sure before when I pulled a bunch out over the weekend. That stuff looked like GHA, came off easy. This stuff was attached to that snail and it looks like a fern. It's also only a patch or two, where the GHA was more of a mat covering that rock in the middle. I'll look for some fluconazole and read up on treatment.

 

[Brew12]

Yea, I wasn't sure before when I pulled a bunch out over the weekend. That stuff looked like GHA, came off easy. This stuff was attached to that snail and it looks like a fern it'salso only a patch or two, where the GHA was more of a mat covering that rock in the middle. I'll look for some fluconazole and read up on treatment.

Best thread on Bryopsis treatment ever!
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bryopsis-cure-my-battle-with-bryopsis-using-fluconazole.285096/

It's easy to beat. The stuff in the light goes much faster than the stuff that is shaded.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Best thread on Bryopsis treatment ever!
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bryopsis-cure-my-battle-with-bryopsis-using-fluconazole.285096/

It's easy to beat. The stuff in the light goes much faster than the stuff that is shaded.

I was just looking at that thread. ;)

 

[Fudsey]

Got mine here-----> https://www.fishlifeantibiotics.com/

 

[Katrina71]

Not a trachy, but eats a lot too. Andrew's first cousin.

 

[Katrina71]

Would it be wrong to get a betta tank for his nursery?;Dummy