Let’s see the Softie Tanks

[Streetlamp]

I couldn’t find a thread for softie only tanks. I’m considering going softie, shroom zoa dominant and curious to see how they look.

 

[Broke2Broke]

Crappy pic but I’ll start it off. All softies. Well one LPS was an unexpected freebie from and order.

 

[Broke2Broke]

 

[Sebastiancrab]

What are the names of the purple and bright green corals in the top middle part of the above top picture?
Love your tank!

 

[Streetlamp]

that’s very cool

 

[Broke2Broke]

What are the names of the purple and bright green corals in the top middle part of the above top picture?
Love your tank!

Probably the Pink Japanese Nepthea or Blue Capnella, Palau Green Nepthea, Green Japanese Toadstool.

 

[Chrisjordan004]

Wish I could capture all the color in my torches, but here's what I've got

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Mine in lighting mode

 

[MonsterMush]

fOWLR for 16 years. Just started soft corals last year. These pics are to boost everyone’s self esteem: my reef is a work in progress!

 

[Broke2Broke]

Wish I could capture all the color in my torches, but here's what I've got

I want my next tank to be an all LPS only tank.

 

[Broke2Broke]

Mine in lighting mode

I want to try some carnation corals. I never have. I heard they are hard to keep. I know that's your specialty

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I want to try some carnation corals. I never have. I heard they are hard to keep. I know that's your specialty

DT is 7.5 gallons, sump 4 gallons. Oysters (edible type) key to some success, so key is having oysters part of filtration. I have 2 oysters in sump. See, nano,nano, we come in peace....thread.

 

[p@blo]

Crappy pic but I’ll start it off. All softies. Well one LPS was an unexpected freebie from and order.

Beautiful tank !

 

[andrewkw]

This is probably the best my reef will look for a while. I'm starting to cut back. The big green leather cannot support its weight. It's already shifted down some not to mention it's stinging about 20 other corals and blocking another dozen from the light. As for my toadstools once I cut the one on the left I'll probably have 50 frags of them..

Build Thread - 112 gallon mixed reef is looking like a reef again

So my big leather fell again - it's just so heavy I couldn't even get it out of the water easily or I would have attempted to guess it's weight. After pushing it right against the back glass it looks a little smaller but actually gave everything a little more space. I decided to redo both...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[Tankkeepers]

The bryopsis that is everwhere is intentional I did not add it on purpose but I am letting it grow in the areas without coral eventually the top half will be coral while the bottom half is bryopisis as the saying goes if you cant beat it join it which is what I'm doing training it to only grow where I want it to be and this in not really a softy only tank its a mixed reef mostly softy and will be adding the last piece here soon just gotta find that perfect acro

 

[gonzo64]

holy hair algae batman

 

[Tankkeepers]

holy hair algae batman

Thats not hair algie thats bryopsis compleatly diffrent and almost impossible to get rid of

 

[andrewkw]

Thats not hair algie thats bryopsis compleatly diffrent and almost impossible to get rid of

Fluconazole works 99.95% of the time.

 

[Tankkeepers]

Fluconazole works 99.95% of the time.

It also will kill the gorgonian(tested in separate tank with frag) I have and will kill the zoas and palys I have and its more like a 50 50 chance of it working and in said test tank it did kill half of the zoas and paly frags and the gorgonian while it did absolutely nothing to the bryopsis wish I could go that route but can not so instead I'm making it work for my tank see build thread if you want to know the route I'm taking thanks for trying to help tho but iv been down every road there is to try and get rid of this stuff except for compleatly restarting which I see no reason to do as it is not hurting anything at all and once done the way I want it will be pretty imo (test was ran for 2 weeks)

 

[andrewkw]

It also will kill the gorgonian(tested in separate tank with frag) I have and will kill the zoas and palys I have and its more like a 50 50 chance of it working and in said test tank it did kill half of the zoas and paly frags and the gorgonian while it did absolutely nothing to the bryopsis wish I could go that route but can not so instead I'm making it work for my tank see build thread if you want to know the route I'm taking thanks for trying to help tho but iv been down every road there is to try and get rid of this stuff except for compleatly restarting which I see no reason to do as it is not hurting anything at all and once done the way I want it will be pretty imo (test was ran for 2 weeks)

The was in April 2017. Not a single spec of byropis on the gorgonian which is still doing great or anywhere else in the tank since. Seriously out of all treatments for anything aquarium related I would go as far as to say fluconazole is the most effective of them all.

Back in 2017 there was a very very very long thread and every single person had it work for them. There have perhaps been some user error cases or people reintroducing it to their tank but it just works. I remember being hesitant to try it but after reading through success story after success story I could not find a single case of someone not having it work for them. Over the past few years I have seen a couple but I would suspect that would be user error.