I have a 75 gallon reef. It’s been about 2 years since I’ve done more than top off and feed. It’s a nightmare…tank is like the walking dead, somehow staggering forward when it should have been dead and buried.
What happened was, my oldest daughter got sick and my tank became something I just didn’t have the time or desire to upkeep. I was barely able to keep myself employed as my entire family was shook. Now with her doing much better, she has asked me to start picking up some of my old hobbies again. I was practically ordered to start with fixing the reef.
So here we are loaded with algae, and completely overrun by aiptasia. I really don’t even know where to start. I have 12 gallons of water mixing and I literally scooped out some of the algae from the front glass so I could get a read on what I’ll be dealing with.
I’ve never been great at keeping a reef, so trying to heal this thing will be a
Monumental effort. Pray for me and feel free to offer up any suggestions.
I’m starting by clearing the scum on top of the water
Next I’m hitting the my pumps and mag float.
Then I’m going to clean up the front glass
I’m not sure what to do with the back and sides as it looks like I was farming aiptasia…there are literally thousands
I want to order a batch of Bergia, but I did have a leopard wrasse (haven’t seen him yet, but it is past his bedtime)
I put up a couple pics so you can either laugh at me or commiserate. You can see I cleared a little algae from the front glass. And then the back glass you can see that wonderful aiptasia farm.
What happened was, my oldest daughter got sick and my tank became something I just didn’t have the time or desire to upkeep. I was barely able to keep myself employed as my entire family was shook. Now with her doing much better, she has asked me to start picking up some of my old hobbies again. I was practically ordered to start with fixing the reef.
So here we are loaded with algae, and completely overrun by aiptasia. I really don’t even know where to start. I have 12 gallons of water mixing and I literally scooped out some of the algae from the front glass so I could get a read on what I’ll be dealing with.
I’ve never been great at keeping a reef, so trying to heal this thing will be a
Monumental effort. Pray for me and feel free to offer up any suggestions.
I’m starting by clearing the scum on top of the water
Next I’m hitting the my pumps and mag float.
Then I’m going to clean up the front glass
I’m not sure what to do with the back and sides as it looks like I was farming aiptasia…there are literally thousands
I want to order a batch of Bergia, but I did have a leopard wrasse (haven’t seen him yet, but it is past his bedtime)
I put up a couple pics so you can either laugh at me or commiserate. You can see I cleared a little algae from the front glass. And then the back glass you can see that wonderful aiptasia farm.
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