New 110 Gallon Reef

[cvrle1]

Originally Posted by LifeIsGreat

Hydroids and algae... well I guess the anemone doesn't get to keep its rock. One for the boiling pot. Thanks for the heads up folks.

As mentioned dont literally cook/boil rock. To kill what is on there, do bleach or acid bath. Word of warning about acid. While it does work and work fast, it can be quite dangerous to work with. So unless you know what you are doing and have all the safety gear, do a bleach bath. Takes a bit longer, but it is much safer and you get same result.

[LifeIsGreat]

It has been a week since I added the new livestock to the aquarium. The tang was hating quarantine, it wasn't swimming and wasn't eating but looked healthy otherwise so I took the chance and put it in the display tank a couple weeks early. After a few hours of settling in it started swimming around and pecking at the rock. Now it is fat and healthy and is always cruising around looking for a snack.

The bubble tip is starting to colour up nice in its new conditions and has not moved from where I placed it. However the clowns are not interested in it and still prefer a nice bed of algae and cyano. I'm thinking they look for a specific texture for a home, and the slime on the rock does the job.

The blenny found about six different holes that it calls home, and it darts from one to the next throughout the day.

Overall everything is fat and happy.

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This guy will never starve!

[Ryancw]

it looks like your play sand is starting to cause diatom issues despite you doing a little test area. the silica in that is going to become a problem. i would remove it all, followed by a few larger water changes this week while you still have a chance.

if you are going to use sand in the aquarium hobby make sure it is reef friendly. while it may seem in the beginning stages like its going to work fine, problems like leaching happen over time and once it takes over the tank there will be no recovering from it. there is literally a million resources online that suggest silica based sand is not for use in the aquarium hobby.