Please take pics we'll use in big threads. In my opinion we're lifting out rocks carefully so that as little of the invader is in the tank as possible, a medical isolation approach
You can spray your sps with misted tank water from a mister while out for surgery
It's treated like debriding a burn injury, so that only clean surfaces are available for healing and not a bunch of unneeded material. This bloom reduces your tanks nitrification through pore blocking, it's best to guide out. That you have an accessible, pristine scape and not a wall immovable specifically sets your tank up for success
We all get invasions, but many have refused such quick access right off the bat, they chose to farm further. Your thread is an example for gha invasions as well, just kill an invader until a means for prevention is found. We never attain the same grazer balances as a real reef, so allowing ourselves to cheat kill the invader by simply access is the ace in the hole no fully invaded tank was willing to use, ever.
And then some refuse every invasion in reefing this way, for a mighty clean reefing experience.
These chryso don't need much other than direct import... no single light source or feed or param balance is the decider, they'll stop coming back if you force out their initial masses and look for bits cast off on the substrate as you lifted out things...I think you have a neat set of characters that w allow a win here. Not a once off event, but a series of water changes and maybe two or so targeted removals depending. A busy month then go right back to cruise control, till the next challenge with same action.
Nice corals, very clean reefing going on here it's fun biology to work in a dedicated manner but still preserve all that growth and $
The peroxide is a targeted post wash in the cleaned areas, all mass washed down sink from saltwater rinses
The fact it's so isolated is amazing here you can hand guide this into compliance.
The sole cause of chrysophytes invasion is mere happenstance import can happen to anyone. Everything we’ve discussed so far as action is the direct incremental opposite of how a hitchhiking invasion begins, we’re hitchiking it right back down the drain. A mechanical force brought it into our tank not some sort of imbalance, key to framing a win in my opinion.
Also, add this to myriad reasons I'll never own a large tank above a nano reef without owning oversized UV sterilizer. Chryso are directly among the unanchored, pelagic phase invaders that uv works on. Along with cyano, spirulina, diatoms, invasive dinos, greenwater, many.
It's a physical battle and not a chemical one for this invader
The ocean simply has varied grazers who eat it, so whatever cheat we use to offset that is just among other cheats like skimmers, pumps etc. that you had a standard this invasion was unacceptable I found pretty rare. I’m the same. What’s acceptable for me is only coralline and coral, the rest is burned out in complete disregard of the rules of a given decade
