d_adler Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Got some pics today! Nothing great, but better than a iphone. Everything is doing good and my params are starting to be where i want them. My scoly isnt looking to great. Not sure whats going on. Has 2 holes in the tissue : ( I put it under a rock in shade and light flow. Hope for the best. Some of my sps is starting to change colors!. Very Excited. Ammo 0 Nitrate 0 Phosphates...havent checked yet...No crap stuff growing in the tank so i havent bothered Ca 420-430 on its way down now that i have some stuff in the tank Dkh 8.2 Mag 1400 high but im sure its on the way down On to the Pics! What i see when i come in the door. DSC_0624 by touchofklasse, on Flickr My son and his ps4. He said this is his favorite seat in the house! DSC_0635-2 by touchofklasse, on Flickr FTS DSC_0606 by touchofklasse, on Flickr DSC_0632 by touchofklasse, on Flickr Ric Garden DSC_0611 by touchofklasse, on Flickr DSC_0571 by touchofklasse, on Flickr DSC_0582 by touchofklasse, on Flickr Some Sps Shots DSC_0586 by touchofklasse, on Flickr DSC_0593 by touchofklasse, on Flickr DSC_0595 by touchofklasse, on Flickr DSC_0644 by touchofklasse, on Flickr And what i was seeing as i typed this!! DSC_0640 by touchofklasse, on Flickr ok so i must say your tank is awesome. i currently have a 16 nuvo with a nanobox duo and absolutely love it. i have a cad 50 long on its way to me which im counting the days down till it gets here. im torn between leds or getting an ati. i was wondering how much success you had with the t5/nanobox?!?! i was even considering retrofitting a ati fixture. was the 24'' light fixture enough for the 36'' tank? im sorry for blowing you up but i think you would give good feed back considering how successful you have been. would you have gone with a 36'' fixture going back? Link to comment
Alex B Posted December 2, 2014 Author Share Posted December 2, 2014 Hi Alex, did you have a good Holiday with the family? Yes we did Kat. Thanks!! How was yours??? ok so i must say your tank is awesome. i currently have a 16 nuvo with a nanobox duo and absolutely love it. i have a cad 50 long on its way to me which im counting the days down till it gets here. im torn between leds or getting an ati. i was wondering how much success you had with the t5/nanobox?!?! i was even considering retrofitting a ati fixture. was the 24'' light fixture enough for the 36'' tank? im sorry for blowing you up but i think you would give good feed back considering how successful you have been. would you have gone with a 36'' fixture going back? The tank has actually changed a little bit. It now has a 36" ati fixture. It is a 36x8 with the 2 middle bulbs removed. It has 4 of the nanobox arrays in it. So I now run 6t5 bulbs with the leds for supplement. My tank being 24" wide needed a little better spread. Awesome tank btw!! If I was you I would look into a 6x36 ati and retro it. That way you have 4 t5s and the leds. Goodluck! Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 How's the tank doing? I neeeeeeeeed some pictures. Please Link to comment
D Z Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 If I was you I would look into a 6x36 ati and retro it. That way you have 4 t5s and the leds. Goodluck! +1 Link to comment
metrokat Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Yes we did Kat. Thanks!! How was yours??? Too much food. How's the tank doing? I neeeeeeeeed some pictures. Please +100 Link to comment
Alex B Posted December 15, 2014 Author Share Posted December 15, 2014 Sorry no updates and stuff. Things have been slowly coloring up and the tank is better then ever, but the battle with bryopsis is starting to get to me. It's really starting to take off. My phosphates are testing 0 and nitrates about 5ppm. I have huge patches everywhere. Manual removal is pretty useless at this point. I'm scared to take the tech-m route, but I might have too. Going to see how the tank looks in the morning and make a decision. FML I can't win with this tank. Link to comment
Rehype Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Sorry to hear your having issues with bryopsis. The biggest issue i find with that dry rock is that it can leach phosphates for months at a time. They may not show up on tests but are trapped within the rock and bryopsis as well as other types of nuisance algae capitalize on the excess nutrients. Link to comment
CronicReefer Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Sorry no updates and stuff. Things have been slowly coloring up and the tank is better then ever, but the battle with bryopsis is starting to get to me. It's really starting to take off. My phosphates are testing 0 and nitrates about 5ppm. I have huge patches everywhere. Manual removal is pretty useless at this point. I'm scared to take the tech-m route, but I might have too. Going to see how the tank looks in the morning and make a decision. FML I can't win with this tank. Have you tried an emerald mithrax crab? Mine ate up the patch of bryopsis in two days that I had on my scoly so maybe you could have some luck like I did. I'm hoping hes going to move on to my bubble algae next. Link to comment
DaveFason Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Sorry no updates and stuff. Things have been slowly coloring up and the tank is better then ever, but the battle with bryopsis is starting to get to me. It's really starting to take off. My phosphates are testing 0 and nitrates about 5ppm. I have huge patches everywhere. Manual removal is pretty useless at this point. I'm scared to take the tech-m route, but I might have too. Going to see how the tank looks in the morning and make a decision. FML I can't win with this tank. Sorry to hear Alex. I have been battling it as well. However I have been using Tech M and it has been helping. I am not calculating dosing much, literally dumping and things are fine. I do add some top off water each time due to the rise of salinity I've noticed. As well doing a few black out days. So far it is working! -D Link to comment
Alex B Posted December 15, 2014 Author Share Posted December 15, 2014 Sorry to hear your having issues with bryopsis. The biggest issue i find with that dry rock is that it can leach phosphates for months at a time. They may not show up on tests but are trapped within the rock and bryopsis as well as other types of nuisance algae capitalize on the excess nutrients. It could be that. I really haven't had any phosphate issues or anything since the start, but you never know. Surprisingly every other algae dies in my tank. Hair algae, bubble algae, ect. The tank has always run low on nutrients, especially when it was a zeovit tank. It seems bryopsis doesn't react to nutrient reduction as much as some other algaes. It will just grow no matter what u do!! Have you tried an emerald mithrax crab? Mine ate up the patch of bryopsis in two days that I had on my scoly so maybe you could have some luck like I did. I'm hoping hes going to move on to my bubble algae next. I got some at work I could bring home. You must have got super lucky. Never seen a crab eat bryopsis! Sorry to hear Alex. I have been battling it as well. However I have been using Tech M and it has been helping. I am not calculating dosing much, literally dumping and things are fine. I do add some top off water each time due to the rise of salinity I've noticed. As well doing a few black out days. So far it is working! -D So no color loss or negative response from acro's?? That's all I'm super worried about. I would hate to brown out my whole tank after working so hard to color everything up! Glad to hear it's helping though. Link to comment
CronicReefer Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 I got some at work I could bring home. You must have got super lucky. Never seen a crab eat bryopsis! Yes I was amazed by it too. He got it all out and I'm not seeing any grow back so far. I guess crabs do eat just about everything. Link to comment
picoreef78 Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 I did the tech M thing, did not notice a difference. I took out the rock and H2O2 the pieces. I also felt that nutrient levels did not matter for Bryopsis, it travelled on a frag and just took off. Good luck! How do you like the T5/LED hybrid lights? Link to comment
metrokat Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Sorry no updates and stuff. Things have been slowly coloring up and the tank is better then ever, but the battle with bryopsis is starting to get to me. It's really starting to take off. My phosphates are testing 0 and nitrates about 5ppm. I have huge patches everywhere. Manual removal is pretty useless at this point. I'm scared to take the tech-m route, but I might have too. Going to see how the tank looks in the morning and make a decision. FML I can't win with this tank. Tuxedo urchins and lettuce sea slugs. Cover the powerheads with foam covers so the slugs don't get chopped up. Link to comment
cnseekatz Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 I tried the Tech M thing too. Mixed results really, but possibly a breakthrough this past weekend. I had a bunch of the crap for months and months, and like you said, manual removal is pointless. I did H202 dips on the rocks I could remove from the tank, and that didn't even phase the stuff. So I got the Tech M, and started dosing every day. I got the levels up above where the MG test kit couldn't even register the levels (> 1500 mg/L). I saw no negative effects on anything in my tank (LPS, SPS, Zs & Ps, clams, fish, inverts, etc.). I noticed that some of my macros stopped growing. The bryopsis didn't really show much change either. It started getting bushy, and the growth stopped, but it didn't die. I've kept the levels ultra high for a couple of weeks, and last week I pulled out the small rocks again and dipped them in a 50/50 mix of H2O2. The bryopsis on those rocks actually wilted and died, and hasn't come back. The stuff still in the tank (which I can't dip) is still there though. So (at least for me) the Tech M seems to weaken it pretty substantially, but not enough to kill it. In it's weakened state, the hydrogen peroxide finished it off. Just anecdotal, but encouraging... Link to comment
GHill762 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 what t5's are you using? tank is looking gorgeous btw! Link to comment
d_adler Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 do you run any controller on this tank? Link to comment
smiz Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I had serious bryopsis outbreak in my 110g tank. I tried raising mg with no success. I tried raising it slowly and two weeks later rapidly. Neither did anything to it. I then just dumped an entire bottle of kent m tech in before I went to bed, and when I woke up there was nothing left. I forget what it brought my mg up to but i think it's safe to say it is a trace element in the kent m that kills the bryopsis. I did a large water change once I saw all of it was gone and did not really see any ill effect on my sps. Link to comment
Sk8n Reefer Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Tanks looking really good! How you liking the light- whole set up is impressive! Link to comment
BRADYBUNCH7 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Wow beautiful tank! What dry rock did you use? Where'd you get those rics? Link to comment
Alex B Posted January 1, 2015 Author Share Posted January 1, 2015 Sorry for the late response guys! what t5's are you using? tank is looking gorgeous btw! Thank you! I'm running 4 blue+, 2 coral+ and blue leds. Yes. I have a apex. I pretty much set it up and have never messed with it. It's just doing temp. I have to get it all setup one day. I'm competing wasting it's potential. do you run any controller on this tank? I had serious bryopsis outbreak in my 110g tank. I tried raising mg with no success. I tried raising it slowly and two weeks later rapidly. Neither did anything to it. I then just dumped an entire bottle of kent m tech in before I went to bed, and when I woke up there was nothing left. I forget what it brought my mg up to but i think it's safe to say it is a trace element in the kent m that kills the bryopsis. I did a large water change once I saw all of it was gone and did not really see any ill effect on my sps. Thanks. I've decided to go the tech-m route, hopefully I can get ric of the bryopsis soon. Tanks looking really good! How you liking the light- whole set up is impressive! Thanks. The ati/nanobox hybrid is the best of both worlds, I enjoy it very much. Wow beautiful tank! What dry rock did you use? Where'd you get those rics? The rock is from reef cleaners. The rics are from a reefer down south that attends frag swaps and stuff. Link to comment
Alex B Posted January 1, 2015 Author Share Posted January 1, 2015 Alright!!...so I'm going to start the tech m treatments tomorrow. I think I've exuasted all other options. I'm running gfo, skimming wet, manual removal, and bought like 5 lettuce nudi's. I give up. I wanted to take a couple pictures for reference before i started the treatments. Some of the stubborn pieces that have been with me through all the ups and downs are finally coming along. If it wasn't for the bryopsis I would be super happy with the tank right now. Quick fts under blues https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/15983388397/'> https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/15983388397/'>DSC_0430-2 by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/'>touchofklasse, on Flickr Cali tort with nice green polyps https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/15982892289/'> https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/15982892289/'>DSC_0360-2 by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/'>touchofklasse, on Flickr Rose milli looking super happy https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/16168945365/'> https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/16168945365/'>DSC_0363 by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/'>touchofklasse, on Flickr Zoa garden has filled in nicely https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/16168946325/'> https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/16168946325/'>DSC_0365-2 by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/'>touchofklasse, on Flickr Monti from Rog and my $3 nightmare damsel https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/16168946685/'> https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/16168946685/'>DSC_0370-2 by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/'>touchofklasse, on Flickr Couple Montis. My starburst is finally taking off https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/15983177157/'> https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/15983177157/'>DSC_0390-2 by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/'>touchofklasse, on Flickr Zoas https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/16143164796/'> https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/16143164796/'>DSC_0394-2 by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/'>touchofklasse, on Flickr Such a common coral, but man do I love me some mystic sunset https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/15982897109/'> https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/15982897109/'>DSC_0404 by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/'>touchofklasse, on Flickr Ora SSC. This coral has been brown for 6 months. I'm even getting some pink at the tips and polyps. Hopefully in a another month or so this will be fully colored. It's def grown a lot though. https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/15983180157/'> https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/15983180157/'>DSC_0414 by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/'>touchofklasse, on Flickr Red planet finally taking off https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/16143166696/'> https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/16143166696/'>DSC_0418-2 by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/'>touchofklasse, on Flickr Hopefully the tech m treatments don't screw up my progress. Would hate to go backwards after everything. This tank has been one hell of a journey. Link to comment
Spiderguardnano Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 What do you think caused the breakout? Link to comment
Alex B Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 What do you think caused the breakout? The tank has had so many ups and downs. I honestly don't know. When I was running zeovit I was feeding like a mad man to keep my corals alive. It was so effective at stripping the water that I had to feed like crazy! I have a feeling all that caught up to me now. Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 once the purple comes in on the rim of that green cap, it really is a spectacle. https://flic.kr/p/qcWbJM'>https://flic.kr/p/qcWbJM'>shrimp and monti 1221 by https://www.flickr.com/people/113969537@N03/'>xMrKleinReef, on Flickr good luck with the bryopsis! Link to comment
Alex B Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 Ur tank is looking amazing right now Rog. Good job man!! once the purple comes in on the rim of that green cap, it really is a spectacle. https://flic.kr/p/qcWbJM'>https://flic.kr/p/qcWbJM'>shrimp and monti 1221 by https://www.flickr.com/people/113969537@N03/'>xMrKleinReef, on Flickr good luck with the bryopsis! Link to comment
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