Deep Blue 80 gallon

[Jmalin]

I opened up a frag space in my sump after that I had elevated phosphates and nitrates. I used lanthium chloride to drop my phosphates and started nopox for the nitrates. If I continue to have problems I will go back to a dark sump and no frags. I did loose two conchs, trochus snails, and some pitho crabs it seems during the swings. I also had a zoa bacteria or fungus, honestly it looks like brown hell disease but for zoas. Only affected certain kinds. But wiped out a lot of those kinds. I need to bet these buttmonkey zoas trimmed back they are stared to choke out my acid reflux which was the last straw. I’m hoping I can just pull them off by their mat. My neglected biocube is also starting to have a come back. My csb is huge again and stinging the crap out of my zoa and shroom garden.

 

[Jmalin]

I had attempted to remove 3 Sunkist shrooms since the last post I killed them all. I wait till they are 3+ inches which I believe is the problem. I also pulled off like 50 buttmuncher zoas since they invaded my acid refluxes and other zoas I like more haha. I am in the process of building an algae scrubber since my nitrates and phosphates have been elevated after lighting up my sump for a frag tank. I also have cut feeding down some.

 

[Jmalin]

A simple DIY Algae scrubber. I would have preferred it to drain out the bottom but for the location I put it I was unable to. I will probably black out the back of it, and get a light for it. The first picture is my build, the rest are from the build I copied.

 

[Jmalin]

It’s hard to get a good picture with the moisture on the containe, but the algae is growing well. I did stop it for a while since I had lower nutrients from hardly feeding, with that and this I was getting lower then I wanted to be before a trip.

 

[Jmalin]

 

[Jmalin]

I have lost a bit of stuff since my last post after doing a fluconazole treatment for bubble algae it put it into a funk. I still feel like colors of some of my corals are off a bit because of it. I took some hard hits from csb nem, masters and rapunzel torches, and frank mushroom, tons of jaw breakers, and tons of other corals unfortunately. Everything else has been growing in nicely though. I have had two people already come with saws and cut my corals since I have no time with 3 kids 5 and under and other things going on. I’m starting to do better, I also made space by donating my zoa rock to my friends schools tank. So I’m excited about starting a nicer zoa rock.

 

[Jmalin]

More pics

 

[TPhan]

I have lost a bit of stuff since my last post after doing a fluconazole treatment for bubble algae it put it into a funk. I still feel like colors of some of my corals are off a bit because of it. I took some hard hits from csb nem, masters and rapunzel torches, and frank mushroom, tons of jaw breakers, and tons of other corals unfortunately. Everything else has been growing in nicely though. I have had two people already come with saws and cut my corals since I have no time with 3 kids 5 and under and other things going on. I’m starting to do better, I also made space by donating my zoa rock to my friends schools tank. So I’m excited about starting a nicer zoa rock.
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Did the treatment rid of the bubble algae?

 

[Jmalin]

Did the treatment rid of the bubble algae?

Only temporarily, it did knock out a lot but the og’s who started recommending doing it said not to since it gave them problems later on. Not during the treatment but later on. They experienced losses like me and had a funk to their tank, seems to me it causes problems with Zooxanthellae in high doses that is used for bubble algae. I’d recommend pitho crabs. They aren’t known to get a taste for corals like emeralds and they destroy bubble algae. They keep my tank clean. They have fragged some zoas but that’s about it.

 

[Jmalin]

I’m going to make a hard decision with my candy cane coral soon. I’m not in a place where I have time or the money to upgrade. The candy cane is almost to the surface. Trying to figure out a way I may be able to drop it to the sand and not loose corals . I have thought of dremeling the base and dropping it a few inches.

 

[afboundguy]

Daannnnnggggg... Now that's a candy cane coral!

 

[Jmalin]

Daannnnnggggg... Now that's a candy cane coral!

Pictures don’t even show its true size. It’s massive.

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

Pictures don’t even show its true size. It’s massive.

How long did that take to grow

 

[Jmalin]

How long did that take to grow

If you go to the beginning of the thread which isn’t to hard cause it’s two pages you can see the size of the colony I started with back in November 2021. I don’t remember how long I had in my biocube before that. Actually had more heads before but shading has killed a bit haha.

 

[Jmalin]

Experiencing some coral warfare being super packed on the euphyllia side of the tank. Got 4 more torches coming and I got to figure that out lol. I raised my water level so I bought myself some time with the candy cane before its breaks through the surface.