so update for the bonsai.
recently went through a tough battle where in the end there is no winning.i have decided to do a rebuild on the bonsai tree , unfortunately digitate hydroids have consumed the tank , my only defense was a dozen peps who couldnt keep them under control , since i have an army of wrasses replacing the peps is getting expensive since they are losing any way.
how bad is it??
well the hydroids do not seem to bother the corals with the exception of zoanthids , my whole collection is at another reefers tank so im not too worried about that but the real threat is the liverock in genberal. the combination of sponges and hydroids have destroyed the rock , one square inch of rock has about 200 hydroids on it.....my whole structure is covered.
the hydroids are also magnets for ditrius and holds the dirt making the tank look dirty and not allowing it to be sumped.
so we are doing a rebuild and tossing the old rock, these types of hydroids are not easy to get rid of like colonial hydroids are but have less of a sting too.
the corals are going into qt and all corals with hydroids will be treated to harsh h2o2 dips untill either the coral dies or the hydroids do. certain expensive corals will be hand picked of hydroids and dipped a bit more carefully.
they will go into qt untill the new structure is in place.
the new tree is going to be slightly different.
weve done a dry run to see how it would look before we made the call and the new tree will be built like this.
i am using a dozen pieces of tonga branch to create the tree trunk, then quality fiji liverock to add a tree type shape to the top, in our dry runs it looked very good and offered more space between rocks vs being one whole rock structure.
basically we are going for an even more realistic look of a tree vs the typical one we have now.
the structure will be slightly larger to incorporate new lps.
other than that i upgraded my skimmer from a asm g2 with mesh mod to a csc450 which will skim the fish right out the water lol
ive taken the carbon off line temporarily(never liked it anyways) untill i decide where i want to store it in the sump.
right now i need more flow
i had:
1 x mp10@ 100%
1 x mp40@ 100%
1 x koralia 1400
i added 3 x koralia 1400 which puts me well over 100x flowrate, with the increased skimmer size this should work well.i will switch out the koralias with mp40's in a few weeks once everything else settles in.....baby steps right?
fish are all getting along great still cant get the achilles to eat frozen but he eats pelltes non stop in fact about a bottle a week.......fat bugger lol ive also named him zeus which for me isnt normal i dont name fish lol
well ill see where i am in the next couple of weeks but untill the change over with the rock wont be much to update.
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