Suggestions wanted for livestock.

[Cjtabares]

I am struggling to decide what I want in the tank. My original plan was sps dominate tank, but coming back into the hobby I have realized I am a bit of a lazy reefer. I added some btas on one island, euphyllias on another, and zoas on a third, an acan lord, and a sun coral on the sand bed. Unfortunately one of the bta walked to the uphyllia island and now I am unsure what to do. I am thinking I have 3 options, leave it like it is, remove the bta, or remove the euphyllias and let the bta take over and hope they don’t move to the zoa island too. What would you people do?

 

[Cjtabares]

Wow, those pictures are really hard to see what’s going on, I will try to get some better ones later.

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

Adjust the white balance or download and install Snapseed.
Here's a good tutorial:

Thread 'Photographing Your Reef Tank with Your Phone, Gel Filters and an App'

Jul 5, 2019

Here's a great video I've found to extremely useful on Youtube. Enjoy, I've learned a couple of things with this one. Disregard the Mantis Coral Lens and just use the Polyp Lab Lens.

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• BiGGiePauls33
• Replies: 4
• Forum: Photography

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[Duds]

I would remove the bta personally. There’s a few different options to remove safely, the most popular seems to be flow directed at the foot of the bta. You can try a Turkey baster or go straight for a small powerhead/pump then upto you try to keep on anemone island or exile to someone else’s tank lol

 

[Cjtabares]

I would remove the bta personally. There’s a few different options to remove safely, the most popular seems to be flow directed at the foot of the bta. You can try a Turkey baster or go straight for a small powerhead/pump then upto you try to keep on anemone island or exile to someone else’s tank lol

Yeah, I guess this is kind of where I am leaning. I really like the bta, kind of dreading trying to remove them though, but I also want to have some variety of different coral.

 

[Chrisnnemo]

I just move my hammers when the Rbta is bothering them. He obviously has found his happy place cuz he hasn’t moved in months. I just look at it as moving the furniture around in a room, a change is good sometimes

 

[Cjtabares]

I just move my hammers when the Rbta is bothering them. He obviously has found his happy place cuz he hasn’t moved in months. I just look at it as moving the furniture around in a room, a change is good sometimes

I do this, but my 2 urchins sometimes like to move anything not secured down(like the spa frag in the sand). So I like to glue corals to the rock work.

 

[Cjtabares]

Here are some better pictures of the tank(angles are a little weird, but let’s you see the islands a little better). Working on the Cyanobacteria, my nitrates went to zero, trying to get those up a little, hoping that’s the cause of the out break.