Myka's 69 SPS Tank 2015

[Proteus]

I also had the white fuzz. It was worse in low light areas. Lasted a month then just went away. Never did find out what it was

[Myka]

Originally Posted by maron6977

FTS look great !

Originally Posted by Howie

Tanks looking good Mindy!

Thanks guys.

Originally Posted by Elliott@BigReefDepot.com

A member from another forum and myself have both had the 'white fuzz', it eventually went away after a few weeks without much effort or worry about it. Though I did add a few scarlet hermits to the cleanup crew. I wouldn't panic over it, but holding off on the dosing is a good idea.

Some of the guys over on RC think it's an alga, not bacteria. I'm not sure. To me it looks just like what happens when you dose too much MB7 or VSV. I have lots of Scarlet Hermits in the tank - none of my CUC touches it.

Originally Posted by Proteus

I also had the white fuzz. It was worse in low light areas. Lasted a month then just went away. Never did find out what it was

This is different then, it's only in lit areas.

[Duckhams]

Curious. The plot thickens! Keep us posted on it.

[Myka]

Last night I added a big male Pintail and a really nice Carpenter's Wrasse to my QT. The Carpenter's Wrasse has really nice coloring and was eating at the LFS, but it's in very rough shape. I give it 50/50. They'll both get a FW dip today.

So I skipped the last two nights of Sponge Power dosing, and that along with the two doses of Coral Snow seem to have knocked the bacteria (alga?) back quite a lot (60-70%?) compared to last weekend. Today is WC day, and now I think of it, I've also been dosing Prodibio BioDigest which is due today, and I will not dose it.

[Myka]

Some pics from New Years' Day. I took the closeup pics and then proceeded to do a water change and big clean up; I took a toothbrush to the rocks scrubbing and siphoning the Bubble Algae, and the bacteria (algae?). I also scraped the back wall real good and cleaned the powerheads. Plus I did another round of glue/epoxy/glue to the frags that have been doing well and I've decided where to put them. After that cleared I took a new FTS at the end.


I'm liking where this one is going:




I don't care what anyone says, I love the blue and green contrast on the Montipora "crapitata".




For a mariculture piece, it has really held it's color well. Only faded a sniff at first, and I think it's back to the color it was when it came out of the bag at the LFS. I need to try to get an ID on it, and maybe get another one with different color:




A bit bleached and not sure why.



Hawkin's "Echinata" mostly recovered from the mini-crash:




The corallites on this papillare are neon, but my camera didn't pick it up well:



This SSC has always been super fussy for me - the first one to lose color and the last one to gain it back, but it's tough as nails! At least it's showing some color again. It's been turd brown ever since the mini-crash and grows sooooo slow that it hasn't covered the STN'd tips yet.




FTS after scrub/clean.

[Craigdillman]

Looking good always nice to see the pieces come back after

[Myka]

See Warren? Frag plugs were removed when mounted on the rocks! Except that one papillare that's not glued down yet (I can't find a happy place for it), and it fell off the rocks now anyway and is back on the sand.

What kind of lighting do you guys keep your SSC (Strawberry Shortcake) under? I have it at the top of my rock formation on the right-hand side. After reading "The Farm" journal on RC and seeing the most ridiculously neon yellow Acro ever, he mentions BLASTING yellow Acros with light to get the nicest color. So I'm kinda thinking I want to put a yellow Acro in that top spot where the SSC is. The left side is only for tabling Acros, so a Wolverine or other bush-type yellow would have to be on the right. I have stags mingled around in the back of the tank, so a yellow stag could go on the left and be blasted, but they grow upright so fast that I don't think yellow is a good option for a stag. Plus, I still want an exquisita for a stag, and I've never seen a yellow exquisita. I'd love to find a Banana Lokani.

Oh, and how the heck do you guys get nice FTS???? This has ever eluded me! Mine always look washed out, never colorful. My tank looks a lot better than my FTS.

Originally Posted by Craigdillman

Looking good always nice to see the pieces come back after

Yes, it sure is! There are a couple others that STN'd almost to death, but still have like a dime-sized patch growing. I've been taking pics to follow their progress too.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Myka

See Warren? Frag plugs were removed when mounted on the rocks!

I noticed