Parker's 265 Build - Thread Retired

[Parker]

Originally Posted by lastlight

sorry to hear man. smart move not to take it down tho. much easier to sort these out with a dry tank. and you can cook the rock in the dark for a few months while you do it. maybe that would kill the pests?

From what I hear / read, aptasia can't be killed by light deprivation. It needs to be controlled by a predator, killed manually or I'll need to nuke my rock and start over with dead rock and re-seed with new clean live rock.

I'm not a big fan of the predator route, they comes back once the predator has been removed, the tank to too big to remove manually. ( at least at this point in my busy life ) so I may chuck the rock in the snow for a month.. lol

[lastlight]

i believe that. i bet stagnant water wouldn't even kill them.

i'd dry the rock out and then cook it while you remodel. good luck man.

tony's tank will be the sole survivor of the classic slowBuild contest.

[Delphinus]

What a shame, I'm so disappointed for you.

I hear you on several of the items. I went with almost all dried rock to begin with, with the sole intent being to avoid any of the usual pest hitch-hikers like aiptasia .. and in the end all I did was give myself an extra long tank cycling period, and lingering phosphate issues. (I had no idea how bad the PO4 would leach from this rock, 2 years in, and I'm still afraid to not have GFO on the tank.) And .. I have aiptasia anyhow. Came in on something, frags or the little bit of wet rock that I let go in. Oh and vermetid snails. God I hate those, maybe even worse than aiptasia. You can zap or inject aiptasias or introduce predators but freaking nothing works against the vermetids.

And I'm not overly fond of my aquascaping either. Funny how this is a universal theme.

Sometimes a tank reset is needed though .. good luck with the rebuild.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

What a shame, I'm so disappointed for you.

I hear you on several of the items. I went with almost all dried rock to begin with, with the sole intent being to avoid any of the usual pest hitch-hikers like aiptasia .. and in the end all I did was give myself an extra long tank cycling period, and lingering phosphate issues. (I had no idea how bad the PO4 would leach from this rock, 2 years in, and I'm still afraid to not have GFO on the tank.) And .. I have aiptasia anyhow. Came in on something, frags or the little bit of wet rock that I let go in. Oh and vermetid snails. God I hate those, maybe even worse than aiptasia. You can zap or inject aiptasias or introduce predators but freaking nothing works against the vermetids.

And I'm not overly fond of my aquascaping either. Funny how this is a universal theme.

Sometimes a tank reset is needed though .. good luck with the rebuild.

use a laser to kill the aptasia! it works

[Parker]

Originally Posted by Pan

use a laser to kill the aptasia! it works

Too late... Tanks half empty already..lol

[Parker]

Btw, I'm assuming you're all coming over to help me take this thing off the stand?

[Parker]

I see, it all goes quiet as soon as some heavy lifting is mentioned! Don't worry, I got it up there myself I can get it down..lol