In Amber Clad

[jedimasterben]

The ORA neon green sinularia is not doing so hot, it started showing some tissue necrosis the morning after I got it. Have done a couple of dips in Revive and iodine, now just playing the waiting game to see if it recovers.

 

[jedimasterben]

Just got half a gallon of Kent Tech M in, bryopsis be danged!! Added 300mL of solution today, which should raise the tank (roughly 50 gallons total volume) by 108ppm, so will continue to do that for a week or so and then let it ride and see where that gets me.

FTS 1/25/16

This stuff is so thick.

 

[Cristy17]

Your tank looks great! Can't really see the algae. I like your coral choices. Can you tell me the name of the hot pink one just to the right of center? I may try to get one for color.

 

[jedimasterben]

I think you're talking about my H. magnifica anemone up there. It's really more tan in appearance, but it has not been fully extended for around six months now, so it does look a little more pink

I think that it is still in recovery mode from losing most of its tentacles to my Gyre while in a poorly filtered holding tank. It is not even half the size that it was before I took down my 80g tank, and the tentacles are not even half as long.

 

[Cristy17]

BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thank you and hope you are successfull with getting rid of the bryopsis!

 

[jedimasterben]

BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thank you and hope you are successfull with getting rid of the bryopsis!

thanks! I hope so, too, but I do not expect the treatment to work as well as I'd like it to and I will be pretty much forced to get rid of my macroalgae in the display and get another rabbitfish to keep the bryopsis in line.

 

[Cristy17]

Also, may I ask what camera and lens you are using. Your pictures are fantastic!

 

[jedimasterben]

Also, may I ask what camera and lens you are using. Your pictures are fantastic!

These were taken with a Canon Rebel T2i with 40mm f2.8 STM lens. The others in the thread are with the same camera but with the kit 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 lens and the 50mm f1.8 lens.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Beautiful reef and the bryopsis won't stay around long! I had the same issue and removed it via the same method.

 

[jedimasterben]

Beautiful reef and the bryopsis won't stay around long! I had the same issue and removed it via the same method.

Thanks rev! I sure hope it dies in a fire lol. I removed as much as I physically could today, squeezed all the water out, and it was almost 100mL in volume!

 

[jedimasterben]

Was time for a guppy cull in the FW tank (which is being upgraded, check out the progress here ), so the reef got a smorgasbord!

 

[jedimasterben]

Well, my magnifica nem has been looking like garbage for a while now, ever since the powerhead incident. I took it out to treat with ciprofloxacin, and it basically died. I put it back in my sump just so that if it had any chance of recovering, it would have its best chances in there. Well, it started to inflate, then split, one half died, then the other half looked like it was wasting away, and then it disappeared and when all hope was lost, it reappeared and is looking great for a nem that is literally 1/10th the size it used to be!!

I've also gotten a couple of shipments from LiveAquaria, and round two of Kent Tech M is starting today, this time I have a full gallon of the stuff. I will also be completely removing the big infested rock and replacing it with fresh, uncured live rock from the Keys (from KP Aquatics).



Also, flickr sucks.


My starcki has some kind of growth on it. Will probably start a round of prazi.

I can't believe how good this nem looks. I can't tell if it has closed up around the mouth or not.

I've not seen either of these maxi minis in a long time!

This is a red plating sponge from LA.

A piece of my yellow gorgonian that always looks happier than the larger piece it came from lol

A green nepthea or sinularia. So weird that is has that bright green ring around the bottom.

 

[Shep]

I have the same bryopsis issue -__-, that stuff is a pain to get rid of! Let me know if the Kent Tech M method works, I might be trying it soon.

 

[jedimasterben]

I have the same bryopsis issue -__-, that stuff is a pain to get rid of! Let me know if the Kent Tech M method works, I might be trying it soon.

It depends on what species you have, only a couple are responsive to it. Mine is B. pennata, and it didn't respond to the first treatment at all, though reports everywhere say that you must buy the gallon size jug of Tech M, that the smaller jugs just don't work. I dunno, but I figured it's worth another shot since it is not too expensive to try.

 

[Shep]

How can I tell which species it is?

 

[jedimasterben]

How can I tell which species it is?

Get macro shots of the fronds and then compare it to data online.

 

[jedimasterben]

Got a new camera today, Canon SL1. So tiny!

And I peeked in at the anemone in the sump to see how it is recovering - and today I saw that it has healed enough that it has formed a new mouth!!! I am SO excited!

 

[jedimasterben]

Got a new camera, a Canon SL1. When shooting highest quality JPEGs, there is no buffer limit, and shooting RAW, I get eight photos at full speed and then the tiniest of delays for a ninth shot, then one ever half a second or so after that if I hold it down continuous. The quality is better than my T2i, but not by a large margin. It is SO small and light, will take some getting used to. The shutter also sounds different, but may be because it is brand new. It does seem to focus faster and much easier with the STM lenses, so they're definitely a good combination.


And yes, in this photo in the top left of the tank that IS a giant pile of salt creep. I have no clue where it is coming from, I clean it up and it reappears within 48 hours. The tank isn't leaking, and the water level is half an inch from touching the tank frame, so I have no clue where it is coming from.

KISSES FOR LINCOLN

The nem! I can't even express how happy I am that it is recovering!

LOOK AT DAT DUCK FACE

 

[jedimasterben]

So I got peroxide happy and sprayed anything that remotely looked like bryopsis, and there was some attached to this bundle of macroalgae (which at the same time as coralline started growing this stuff seriously went from a few sprigs to the giant clump you see now), and all the orange is where the peroxide hit!

And here is the new formation to replace the bryopsis-ridden octopus rock. I literally forgot an entire piece of the new rock I got this week from KP Aquatics lol. It is VERY low and flat, so I will be raising it up to give flow underneath it (SO much detritus built up under the octopus rock, and it seriously only had like an 8"x4" base that touched the starboard in places) and to give it a bit more height, I'm also planning on angling it forward a bit.

I was happy when I came home (went to to my parents house for a bit and then we went to dinner, gone for like 4.5 hours or so) that the mortar had set on the rocks, I went to put the formation into the tank before we left and it hadn't quite set fully at that point, so of course one broke free and I had to reapply mortar to that joint, d'oh!

 

[jedimasterben]

Here is the tank after getting corals mounted to the rock. Didn't break out the good camera because the water is still a little fuzzy from all the glue and epoxy curing, and lots of stirred up detritus, but it still looks decent