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[brandon429]

I think it would be ideal to carefully document on here where your new right might be coming from before you begin/buy and initiate the swap

**there is a marked risk of fish disease when exchanging live rock*

your current system with that fish load is in balance between opportunist disease and fish resistance and import of new disease...fish disease isn't your problem its an anemone problem

even though we can easily skip the cycle and exchange the rock for all new/9 pages of that above/you'd be bringing in all new rock that did not pass a fallow phase to starve out it's disease components, so you risk trading off an anemone problem for fish disease. the solution to that is to buy all your live rock and fallow it in one or two brute containers of heated, circulated and basically-lit water so the photosynthetics stay alive on them for 2-3 months as you fallow out that rock. or, you can just take a chance on disease and do the skip cycle changeout, this stuff needs to be planned accordingly in my opinion, those are costly fish you have.

 

[Mwatts12]

@brandon429 this was my next question, so thank you. I am not in a rush and do not want to lose live stock! My fish are all 4-6 years old, fat and healthy.

Even with my current tank having 65 pounds of live rock and over 100 pounds of dry rock... the dinos were insane... even still get little batches here and there

so.. i fallow the new live rock, should I be concerned about adding fish all at once? Should I dose nitrates and phos into the live rock or ghost feed at all? its just the dino fear

 

[Timfish]

. . . Why arent they surviving???

I'm guessing the Berghia you got were roughly 1/4" to 1/2"? I'm inclined to think from my experinces there may not be a good survival rate after shipping with maybe a third dissappearing by the one month mark. It wouldn't surprise me if there are fish or inverts that might catch and feed off them and especially the egg masses. The only time I've seen successful breeding is when the egg masses are seperated and incubated in jars and the newly hatched beghia are feed aiptasia and grown a little before being released into a grow out tank or DT.

Here's a link to a thread on breading and raising them that was done by a local reefer.