Battlecorals Bliss and Shag Priority discussion thread

Scdell · Mar 30, 2019

marlinmon said:
Oh really?! I did not know that! I'll definitely be trying that out to properly ID before I go flucanozole again.

That's how I tested mine. I wasn't sure what I had either. Flucanozole will kill GHA also. Just takes longer.

Scdell · Mar 30, 2019

Well, I'm a little bummed. I wanted to be in this contest till the end. I got into it to see how my skills stacked up with some of the other players. I have no doubt about my skills, cause I do have some good things going on. I had a reef tank about 20 years ago. Had to give it up. It was tough back then. But the itch was always there. So I got back into it 2 years ago. Pushed things in the beginning. Made mistakes. But thanks to R2R I have learned a ton! There a lot of good people on this site. I don't give up. I'll be back for the next "grow out". Y'all better watch out!

marco fish · Mar 30, 2019

That sucks man ..... I also lost a couple of frags when I treated my tank but it was only 5 months old and some what expected!!!

I wonder how many people leave there macro algae’s in there refuigum before the flucanozole treatment!?!?!

Because you are supposed to take it out before treatment !!! So if you leave them in, then they also will leach PO4 and NO3 into your reef because of some die off????

Just my 2 cents, what’s y’alls opinion ???

justingraham · Mar 30, 2019

Scdell said:
Well, I'm a little bummed. I wanted to be in this contest till the end. I got into it to see how my skills stacked up with some of the other players. I have no doubt about my skills, cause I do have some good things going on. I had a reef tank about 20 years ago. Had to give it up. It was tough back then. But the itch was always there. So I got back into it 2 years ago. Pushed things in the beginning. Made mistakes. But thanks to R2R I have learned a ton! There a lot of good people on this site. I don't give up. I'll be back for the next "grow out". Y'all better watch out!

I dropped out of the snipers and know how you feel there will be another one and I’m sure u will do great in it

Scdell · Mar 30, 2019

marco fish said:
That sucks man ..... I also lost a couple of frags when I treated my tank but it was only 5 months old and some what expected!!!

I wonder how many people leave there macro algae’s in there refuigum before the flucanozole treatment!?!?!

Because you are supposed to take it out before treatment !!! So if you leave them in, then they also will leach PO4 and NO3 into your reef because of some die off????

Just my 2 cents, what’s y’alls opinion ???

Depends on what you read. Everything I read said to leave it in. That's what I did.
The thing about fluconozole is you have to monitor your NO3 And PO4. Parameters. Acros don't like change. You can probably get away with an alk swing better than a swing on those parameters.

Scdell · Mar 30, 2019

justingraham said:
I dropped out of the snipers and know how you feel there will be another one and I’m sure u will do great in it

Why did you drop out? Lose your frag?

justingraham · Mar 30, 2019

Scdell said:
Why did you drop out? Lose your frag?

Yep one second it was there the next second it was gone lost nothing else just the contest frag

Scdell · Mar 30, 2019

justingraham said:
Yep one second it was there the next second it was gone lost nothing else just the contest frag

Bummer! Any idea why?

justingraham · Mar 30, 2019

Scdell said:
Bummer! Any idea why?

Nope possibly a pest but nothing else lost

Scdell · Mar 30, 2019

justingraham said:
Nope possibly a pest but nothing else lost

Besides, they are Acros. Sometimes you never know why one went bad.

smiley28 · Mar 31, 2019

Didn’t wanna over do it in the competition thread so here are a couple top down shots of the shag priority from last week.

zbryant91 · Mar 31, 2019

smiley28 said:
Didn’t wanna over do it in the competition thread so here are a couple top down shots of the shag priority from last week.

I’m jealous of how good yours looks. Creeped on your build thread and saw you’re running the t5 hybrid. Did you notice a big difference after switch to it? Mine is still not extending its polyps much.

All my other sps frags are extending and look good but this one not so much

smiley28 · Mar 31, 2019

@zbryant91 pm
Just explaining why I can’t offer much input.

TMB · Apr 1, 2019

thaveteran said:

@thaveteran Holy cow man!! Your frag looks great! Not sure if it's the lighting or what, but the pink tip color looks very cool;Wideyed!
Great job so far!

thaveteran · Apr 1, 2019

TMB said:
@thaveteran Holy cow man!! Your frag looks great! Not sure if it's the lighting or what, but the pink tip color looks very cool;Wideyed!
Great job so far!

Thanks. I can't say I've done anything special. I was luckily to receive a piece that was already in growth mode and it appears to be encrusting and coloring up. I see the pink tips on a few of the other entries if you look hard enough.

Mark Gray · Apr 7, 2019

Well I was in Japan for 2.5 weeks may Shag Frag does no0t look so good I think I am out ;Inpain

Jason Hieger · Apr 16, 2019

Reefahholic said:
PO4 0

Do you have a lot of macro's?

Just a friendly reminder the other thread is for entries only. I’m assuming you are referencing macro algae? I don’t have any or run a Refugium. My only source for nutrient export is a simmer and water changes. I actually just turned my skimmer up after 2 months of not skimming.

Battlecorals · Apr 17, 2019

Just popped in the entries thread. man your guys frags are starting to shape up! will be really excited to see the next few months progress

Mrx7899 · Apr 19, 2019

I'm out had a ph probe leak gel into my tank and wipe out a bunch of my sps including my shag. Good luck everyone in the rest of the contest.

tp5056 · Apr 19, 2019

Mrx7899 said:
I'm out had a ph probe leak gel into my tank and wipe out a bunch of my sps including my shag. Good luck everyone in the rest of the contest.

Omg ... I’ve never heard of this before ... how big was your tank?!