Rev’s SPS build

[SeaDweller]

Setting up a temporary tank might be more difficult than just taking this one slowly with a strong CUC and well placed peroxide, no? The Acros have adjusted to life in the forest, they may not like a sudden change.

Forget Murphy, this was Jody coming to town while he was away.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Yrevanth]

Setting up a temporary tank might be more difficult than just taking this one slowly with a strong CUC and well placed peroxide, no? The Acros have adjusted to life in the forest, they may not like a sudden change.

Forget Murphy, this was Jody coming to town while he was away.

Lol..

I am going to go the following:
1) do a 50% waterchange with the new filters over a 2 week period.

2) use vibrant and see how that works out.

3) get a couple of sea urchins( I am thinking tuxedos)

4) if all the above fail, go the peroxide route

 

[drawman]

What would be the typical procedure? I have never done it, full strength 50/50, soak/brush, pour?
I thing the misses used tap water to top off when you were out of town....just a guesss

What I've done is take the rock out and apply 3% hydrogen peroxide to all algae using a dropper, pipette, etc. I think I let it sit on there for about 5-10 minutes IIRC. Then let it soak in saltwater for a few minutes to dilute before putting it back in the tank. By rinsing it you can use a good amount of hydrogen peroxide on the outer surface of the rock.

Also I'm curious where you got your rock from. You may event want to use a little GFO to keep it from coming back. Obviously with SPS you don't want to hit the phosphates too hard so a little will go a long way.

 

[madweazl]

Urchins will mow through any coralline you have which also opens it up for undesirable algae to take hold.

 

[Yrevanth]

What I've done is take the rock out and apply 3% hydrogen peroxide to all algae using a dropper, pipette, etc. I think I let it sit on there for about 5-10 minutes IIRC. Then let it soak in saltwater for a few minutes to dilute before putting it back in the tank. By rinsing it you can use a good amount of hydrogen peroxide on the outer surface of the rock.

Also I'm curious where you got your rock from. You may event want to use a little GFO to keep it from coming back. Obviously with SPS you don't want to hit the phosphates too hard so a little will go a long way.

Rock was from my old tank..

 

[Yrevanth]

I think this is as good a time as any to start listing out all the coral in the tank.
Most are frags which were accumulated over the last 1 year, except for a few colonies.

Will add pictures when i clear out the algal monstrosity

Zoas:
Pink zoanthids colony (Dont know the name of this coral, but it has a florescent pink center)
Lord of the Rings paly
Watermelon zoas
Pearly white zoanthid colony
Purple/Blue zoanthid colony

LPS:
Branching Duncan - Huge colony (6" across)
Hammer head coral - 10+ heads
Elegance coral - 3 mouths
Mummy eye chalice
Bubblegum monster chalice
raja rampage chalice
spicy lemon favia
tangerine juice lepto
jack o lantern lepto
miami hurricane chalice
JF Sector 001 favia
Pink ******* chalice
red/green favia

SPS:
CB Maleficent
ORA Red Planet
CB Raver Milli
CB Juicy fruit milli
ASD Rainbow milli
CB candela milli
Somewhere over the rainbow milli
Green Slimer
princess peach
gold digger
miami sunset milli
WD
cb tropical paradise
pretty in pink
green stag
flaming unicorn
flaming pink lemonde
pink halo
crown of thorns

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

I had a bad gha outbreak after my tank maintenance guy forgot to plug my heater back in for two weeks. I took out my rocks and scrubbed them with a stiff brush in a bucket of tank water. I siphoned all my sand. This was hard to do with some rocks that had frags on them. I had to do a few rocks weekly for a couple weeks. This made a huge difference. I also got a tuxedo and long spine urchin. My tank was covered, not as bad as yours. Gha, red and green turf algae. The urchins are awesome. Here is a pic with coralline on the glass, no judging, lol. Tanks acrylic and 19 years old.

Only a couple tufts of gha left.

 

[Yrevanth]

I had a bad gha outbreak after my tank maintenance guy forgot to plug my heater back in for two weeks. I took out my rocks and scrubbed them with a stiff brush in a bucket of tank water. I siphoned all my sand. This was hard to do with some rocks that had frags on them. I had to do a few rocks weekly for a couple weeks. This made a huge difference. I also got a tuxedo and long spine urchin. My tank was covered, not as bad as yours. Gha, red and green turf algae. The urchins are awesome. Here is a pic with coralline on the glass, no judging, lol. Tanks acrylic and 19 years old.

Only a couple tufts of gha left.

This is awesome!

 

[Yrevanth]

Here is an update after 2 dosing of vibrant over the last week.

Combined with 2 40% water changes over the last 5 days with new rodi filters. My old rodi was registering 59 tds!!! This may have been one of the contributing factors!

Quite some progress!

But I started noticing 2 issues.

1) my Duncan coral has some weird spots on its skeleton
2) one of my sps showed some signs of tissue being peeled off. I dragged it above the tissue loss and it is currently on a frag plug on the sandbed
3) my Jf sector 001 favia showed some signs of tissue loss as well.

I think I will scale back vibrant to once a week and see if that fixed things.

But is there a way I can help my Duncan coral? I am very attached to it as I grew it from 5 heads to its current size over 4 years.. Lugols dip? Coral rx dip?

 

[Yrevanth]

I am really amazed at the progress with vibrant!

This pic is under only white lights.. you can see how much the algae has scaled back already.. only in 2 weeks!

 

[Yrevanth]

Only issue now is that the algae when it was growing and covered most of the surfaces, irritated the corals near the bases and the Coralshave lost tissue and polyps.. will the tissue grow back? Or is this a lost cause?

 

[Yrevanth]

Only issue now is that the algae when it was growing and covered most of the surfaces, irritated the corals near the bases and the Coralshave lost tissue and polyps.. will the tissue grow back? Or is this a lost cause?

This is what I mean.

 

[LARedstickreefer]

This is what I mean.

It’ll grow back.

 

[Yrevanth]

Wow.. cant believe its been about 10 months since my last update.. A lot of things have changed since then!

For one.. i have graduated to fatherhood..
2) Tank is doing great, had a lot of exciting new additions.. will post pictures soon, but here is the current stock list:

Fish:
Fox Face
Lamarck's angel
5 X Fire fish
2 X False percula clowns
Six line wrasse
Flame tail blenny
orange back wrasse

Coral:
Lps:
Huge 7" diameter duncan colony (My oldest colony 5+ years)
Huge 7" Plus purple hammer colony
Pink ******* chalice
Raja Rampage Chalice colony (5"X4")
3g Mummy eye Chalice
Need a name on the other green chalice which looks similar to the mummy eye, but has a lizard like skin
Snake skin chalice
War favia
Miami hurricane chalice
spicy lemon favia
JF Sector 01 Favia

Zoas:
Watermelon Zoas
Lord of the rings zoas
Rastas
Pearly whites zoas
eagle eyes zoas
unknown zoa colony (super fast grower)
A very popular zoa (forgot the name, will need an id on it)

SPS colonies:
Huge huge colony of Green slimer (12" X11" X 8")
Huge colony of green slimer (11"X 17"X 6")
Huge colony of Tierra del Fuego (5" X 5" X 5")
Huge Purple Stylopora (7"X 6"X 6")
Huge Cali Tort (9" X9" X 8")
Huge Pink Millepora colony (5"X5"X5")

SPS Frags:
Green millepora (frag)
Lime millepora (Frag)
CB Maleficent
Palmers Blue Millepora
Unknown Acro
WD Tenius
Pink/Green Millepora
Sapphire Millepora
CB Unicorn
Unknown CB
Unknown CB
BC Skinny Love
CB Atomic Fireball
RR Pink cadillac
Pink lady acro
CB Razzle Dazzle
BC efflo 2.0
BC magic wand tenius
PC Rainbow
Joe Knows rainbow
SC Orange Passion
ASD Rainbow Millie
CB Rainbow Twilight
BC Wasps nest
BC Adam Bomb
BC Bohemia
BC Catapult fireball
BC Yars

 

[Yrevanth]

Will take some pictures and update them on the forum..

thankfully everything is running smoothly since i moved to the triton system. Parameters are extremely stable at :

ALk 8 dKH
Ca 420 ppm
Mag 1250 ppm
Sal 1.026

Have not measured trace elements yet.. But i am still doing a few water changes.. about 1 a month just to replenish things.

 

[Dcal]

Congrats! Cant wait for pictures

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

Welcome to the club! Boy or girl? Tanks looking great. Mine is also rocking. It’s amazing how corals grow. Good to hear things are going well.

 

[Yrevanth]

Welcome to the club! Boy or girl? Tanks looking great. Mine is also rocking. It’s amazing how corals grow. Good to hear things are going well.

Girl.. loved her from the moment she came into this world!