What's The Most Annoying Thing in Your Tank?

Mark Gray · May 11, 2018

My Sea Urchin

Live2reef · May 11, 2018

hensdogg said:
have you tried fluconazole? i had a nasty case of bryopsis and it cleared it up nicely. didnt affect anything else in the tank.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bryopsis-cure-my-battle-with-bryopsis-using-fluconazole.285096/

Not yet. Been kinda Leary on using it.

Kit_Kat · May 11, 2018

paphater said:
Diamond goby. Think's its his mission to completely alter the landscape of the tank every couple of months...including where frags go, like in his den.

Not to mention they dig worse than a dog! I have 2 of them along with holes under every thing!

Deereefer · May 12, 2018

My six line wrasse. Aggressive

Instigate · May 12, 2018

40B Knasty said:
Bryopsis(going on 3rd treatment of fluconazole, because the type I have needs a 6 week cure and not the typical 14 day), cyanobacteria(2 months of blowing it off the sand bed and live rock 2-3x a day. It comes back in 2 hours like I never did anything), and a Dwarf Flame Angel doing mock charges at my Carberryi Anthias about 20-30x a day.

Same with the cyano and bryopsis. I'm on my second treatment with fluconazole. But now the bryopsis seems to have out competed the cyano and is growing on the sand too now. Lots of work keeping it at bay but I notice it's falling off the rocks now so it seems like the fluconazole is starting to work.

Dr.Xipoles · May 12, 2018

The cleaner and peppermint shrimps. They steal the food from my corals but the cleaner is the worst as it takes food from inside the corals out. I put him in the qt for now.

markstubb · May 12, 2018

gold head sleeper goby. I hate this fish and can't catch it. It scoops up sand, swims up 8-10" and then filters it out all over my corals. Has killed quite a few things

RussiReef · May 12, 2018

cleanup euro braces from salt creep on my 280 gal reef tank

40B Knasty · May 12, 2018

Live2reef said:
Not yet. Been kinda Leary on using it.

Don't be. It is pretty much the only way to get rid of it. Cleared my tank both times. Just my bryopsis is the special kind. A special kind of pain in the butt that takes 6 weeks. You just need to let it sit and do its thing. Have NCreefguy or Jose Mayo checkout what kind you have on the nuisance algae forum on R2R. My tank was plaqued with it. Knocked it down to about 1/8 of what it was. Also my GHA is all gone. Just turf algae remains and some small bits of bryopsis. I can finally see my rocks again!

bobbyM · May 12, 2018

All the empty space.. lol

Slicktop · May 12, 2018

Green mushrooms and bubble algae. I just tore down tank and pulled several rocks out covered with mushrooms. I took a knife and scraped off lots of others. I wore eye protecting while doing this and I had t shirt on with the arms cut out of it. After I was done washed my hands good but not my wholes arms. That night I had red rash all over my arms... I hate mushrooms ..

RobertP · May 12, 2018

Xenia.....never again will I allow this crap to go in my tank. Cut, rip, tear it out and it just comes back. I could sell 50 frags of it today if I thought someone would buy it.

markstubb · May 12, 2018

I had a xenia once. Thought it was pretty cool. Was running some carbon pretty aggressively and within a week or two, the xenia completely melted away.
It was either that or the toadstool released something that killed the xenia.

ShawnSaucier · May 12, 2018

Not sure if it’s been said, but my system as a whole can be an annoyance. Amazing one day, looks like crap for the next month. But it has given me patience, as I have found myself less likely to be so jumpy when there are issues. I find myself less likely to try and throw everything in the book at a problem so quickly, I.E. dosing a million things to try and fix something quickly. Not sure if it’s from the past defeats(crashes, bryopsis, coral losses) but my tank feels like taxes. I’ll always be putting money into it..
Another is frags getting knocked over my cuc. How much glue and epoxy does it take??!