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Originally Posted by FishyFishy!
I have done all of the above and it's great for a couple months, but it always returns. The thing is, that I don't want to be dealing with these problems in a new tank. I feel like these are all temporary solutions to the problem. This is why I would like to boil or bleach. I would just like to see if there are any solutions out there that might make sure that they don't come back, other than those stated in the main post. I assure you I have spent countless hours researching this topic and have found no real methods to erradicate pests for sure without killing the rock.
Seems like there isn't much of a point to do anything but kill the rock entirely to ensure a problem free rock in the future. I just hate to see all of this nice coraline and beneficial bacteria die. A lot of my rock was imported from Jakarta and as soon as it was put into my tanks it flourished with amazing amounts of life and coraline on it. Will be sad to see it killed.
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You could sterilize everything you have but unless you have the patients to quarantine for months at a time you'll just end up re-introducing things like bryopsis and aptasia again. What I've done for control has worked very well on my own tank since 2008/09. Whether you consider that to be a temporary solution or long term depends on how long you foresee yourself running the tank. At the moment I have approximately 2 square inches of bryopsis in my 240gal system. Which is not a big deal in my opinion. Yesterday I also picked another aptasia off of the Derasa clam that I bought a few months ago. So are the pests completely eliminated from my tank? No, but I'd hardly consider them to be problematic. Pocillopora has actually become one of my biggest 'pest' problems lately. Every piece of live rock in my display has Pocillopora growing on it now and its at war with some of my Acropora.