piranhaman00
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I’ve had a few small colonies for a year or so and still not spreading! Going for an all Poci look
Pocillopora mistake
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Daveobrien
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I have no idea what you're talking about... (zoom in, look what I've circled in Red. There's 2x that not visible in the picture)
To solve this, I started by removing the main mother colony. And then just diligently started scraping/killing individual starter colony's as I could reach them. And then 8 months later I took the tank down to upgrade it... and Soaked all the rocks in Bleach (2wks), Acid (1wk), and then scrub and RO soaks. (4 wks) There was other stuff on the rocks too I didn't want to carry forward to the new setup.
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To solve this, I started by removing the main mother colony. And then just diligently started scraping/killing individual starter colony's as I could reach them. And then 8 months later I took the tank down to upgrade it... and Soaked all the rocks in Bleach (2wks), Acid (1wk), and then scrub and RO soaks. (4 wks) There was other stuff on the rocks too I didn't want to carry forward to the new setup.
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piranhaman00
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Wow destroying all that bio diversity.
DanyL
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That’s like attacking an ant with a nuclear bomb, literally 
Seems way too excessive to me, especially since my first system from 16 years ago is still essentially the same one I’m running to this day, albeit it did went through 2 system upgrades and added more live rock during the first upgrade ~11 years ago.
And I have never ever ran into any problem where a possible solution in the play book was a full-on nuke.
I think you guys are all over reacting, but to each their own.
Seems way too excessive to me, especially since my first system from 16 years ago is still essentially the same one I’m running to this day, albeit it did went through 2 system upgrades and added more live rock during the first upgrade ~11 years ago.
And I have never ever ran into any problem where a possible solution in the play book was a full-on nuke.
I think you guys are all over reacting, but to each their own.
Daveobrien
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This tank was part of a bigger system, with dedicated frag tanks/etc. Rocks to keep, got isolated into the frag tanks to keep their bio diversity. This display tank was then replace and re setup "white rocked". And then live got re-populated back.That’s like attacking an ant with a nuclear bomb, literally
Seems way too excessive to me, especially since my first system from 16 years ago is still essentially the same one I’m running to this day, albeit it did went through 2 system upgrades and added more live rock during the first upgrade ~11 years ago.
And I have never ever ran into any problem where a possible solution in the play book was a full-on nuke.
I think you guys are all over reacting, but to each their own.
Want something that takes a Nuke to eliminate. Let me introduce you to the cousin of Blue Clove Polyps... called the brown clove polyps, which survived all the elimination treatments for the blue. Still don't know how to get rid of them, but most are separately in on of the frag tank systems. I've got a beautiful clam where, with the shell covered by clove polyps i can eliminate.
Eliminating Blue Clove Polyps with Fenbendazole
A few years ago, I purchased a rock that had some beautiful Space Monster zoas on it. It also had some Blue Clove Polyp on it as well. I saw the BCP, I knew it was there, I really didn't worry about it at all because I had no idea what it could become. Fast forward....its now everywhere. Its...
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