# ~ natural reef pest solutions ~ #

[xsdbs]

Thank you for the assistance,
I tested them and they appeared to be low ( I honestly don't remember the exact measurement), I'll recheck and reply this evening when I get back home.

 

[xsdbs]

sorry, got tied up with life.
phosphates = .25
nitrates = 0
thanks again

 

[TUSI]

sorry, got tied up with life.
phosphates = .25
nitrates = 0
thanks again

Phosphates are high try to bring them down. Your nitrates are probably being consumed by your Algea so it might not be true 0. What do u use to keep your phosphates and nitrates low?

 

[xsdbs]

Phosphates are high try to bring them down. Your nitrates are probably being consumed by your Algea so it might not be true 0. What do u use to keep your phosphates and nitrates low?

Good morning and thank you,
I've been tied up lately with the end of a school year, my daughter graduating HS and my son graduating MS. So one will be going to college and the other into HS. Grad parties to go to and just life in general.
So I tested the water coming out of the phosphate reactor and it read the same as in the main tank. I have done 2 water changes and bought new phosphate remover for the reactor. I'll retest in a couple days, when I did the water changes I removed most of the clumps of algae to help.

 

[TUSI]

Good morning and thank you,
I've been tied up lately with the end of a school year, my daughter graduating HS and my son graduating MS. So one will be going to college and the other into HS. Grad parties to go to and just life in general.
So I tested the water coming out of the phosphate reactor and it read the same as in the main tank. I have done 2 water changes and bought new phosphate remover for the reactor. I'll retest in a couple days, when I did the water changes I removed most of the clumps of algae to help.

Good idea

 

[Andy]

That is good to know that there are natural defence against aefw and red bugs, then it is definetly possible that my lennardi is also eating aefw cause I have not seen a sign of any for at least a month and a half. Never would have tought that damsels eat aefw that is very interesting. good info

Are you sure it is a lennardi wrasse? "This is the rarest wrasse available in the reefing and fish community. Price is $1450 shipped!!!!"

 

[happyhourhero]

Dont know if it was mentioned but Molly Miller and Seaweed Blenny from the Gulf of Mexico eat aiptasia and hydroids.

 

[Lenny_S]

Does anyone know what will eat pineapple sponges? Some may not consider them a pest, but for me the are. Anywhere there is low light I'm loaded with them, mostly my sump.

 

[TUSI]

Are you sure it is a lennardi wrasse? "This is the rarest wrasse available in the reefing and fish community. Price is $1450 shipped!!!!"

Yes it is. I did not pay 1450 but still very expensive

 

[Sir Chris]

Ich is not in every tank.

Ich can be present in its dormant phase on coral skeleton and frag plugs. Coral itself is not a host to ich. If you quarantine your coral for longer than ich's life cycle (without fish present), you have effectively prevented ich.

Going fallow prevents any ich from
Living. Fallow= no fish for 68 days. So QT all ur fish with copper and let ur tank stay fallow then ur not managing ich. Ur enjoying ur tank and WT every fish that enters. I QT hermits and snails for 3 days just 2 b sure there had time 2 have my tank water over them and of course use a HOB filter and I use poly fiber and carbon in a bag for that inverts

 

[Sir Chris]

Does anyone know what will eat pineapple sponges? Some may not consider them a pest, but for me the are. Anywhere there is low light I'm loaded with them, mostly my sump.

Pinapple sponges outbreak at the 9 month mark on virgin tanks. I had 200 of em and hey feed on silica. It's just a cycle of he system b4 the dissapear. I tried plucking em off but got tired of it and a month later they were gone. But that's my experience with them. I freaked as they were all over my percilipora in its branches but all went away.

 

[Sir Chris]

I has two clowns that only last me 2 days. They were babies . The word around town is that a local breeder used by my LFS had a bunch of sick fish from a holding rubber made tub that was long passed needing to be replaced. My gut is that it was marine velvet but one LFS says it was clown fish disease . Unfortunately the pics I took had my lesds on blue so it's not a gear pic to look at. There was no skin sores present, reason why I think it was velvet. Is Brook considered "clown fish disease"?

Sounds like broklinella. Spelt that wrong sorry. Did the clowns lose there fins. Had a male recover from it 2 weeks then throws making babys and he passed from guarding it. Stress.

 

[Lenny_S]

Pinapple sponges outbreak at the 9 month mark on virgin tanks. I had 200 of em and hey feed on silica. It's just a cycle of he system b4 the dissapear. I tried plucking em off but got tired of it and a month later they were gone. But that's my experience with them. I freaked as they were all over my percilipora in its branches but all went away.

Slap another 0 on that and it would be closer to the number I had. Been going on for close to a year. I ended up getting a Fluval canister filter and used it like a shop vac. I used the plastic tube like a nozel to scrape them off and suck them up and just returned the water to my sump. I only did the sump since the buggers don't seem to like light so it isn't very bad in the DT. The only positive thing I can say is that I don't believe I'm getting any more, but the ones that are still there seem to be there to stay.

 

[luke33]

Pearlscale butterfly and copperbands are the best I've found for aptasia and are usually 100% effective. Pearlscales will hit your sps from time to time though. Peps and file fish are hit or miss, problem with files is I've had them tear into lps often. In sps tanks they are fine.

 

[stevieduk]

I agree quarantine is always the proper way, but Ich is in every tank regardless especially if there are corals. Corals sometime are a host to ich too. I do agree with the slime on fish. Tangs have different body scale and slime then most other fish and that's also why they get ich much easier then other fish.

I agree with you but slightly differently. some time ago i read a report by a marine biologist on fish diseases , and his thoughts on Ich were that it is not in every tank , but it is on every fish , the same as humans all have the herpes virus which breaks out in cold sores and mouth ulcers, when we get run down , then fish , when they suffer stress , which affects there slime coat ,become susceptible to being attacked by ich which is on there skin.
It also makes moving a fish from a quarantine tank to a display tank susceptible as you are subjecting it to stress once again.
Im not saying dont quarantine, but it makes you think that just because it is in your house in the next tank , its no less stressful to the fish