Kinda's Large Tank Adventure (LTA)

[Kindanewtothis]

7 minutes ago, seabass said:

I would just provide good flow and wait it out.  However, I doubt that a water change would do any harm.

I'll try adding a powerhead that got an air tube on it. It might be too powerful though.

[Kindanewtothis]

15 hours ago, Kindanewtothis said:

I'll try adding a powerhead that got an air tube on it. It might be too powerful though.

Too powerful, it's moving the sand... I'll wait it out or maybe I'll get one of these batterie pump with an airstone.

[Kindanewtothis]

@seabass do you think harvest is due? It have only been 5 days since I splitted the culture.

 

Second picture is once shaken.

Edited September 14, 2021 by Kindanewtothis

[seabass]

The culture looks good!  While not necessary to harvest now, you certainly could of you wanted to.  IME, you need to harvest at least once a week.

[seabass]

4 hours ago, Kindanewtothis said:

Too powerful, it's moving the sand... I'll wait it out or maybe I'll get one of these batterie pump with an airstone.

Maybe just point the old powerhead up some more (so there's more surface agitation).

[Kindanewtothis]

19 minutes ago, seabass said:

Maybe just point the old powerhead up some more (so there's more surface agitation).

I'll see what I can do, it was destroying the shrimp work. 

[Kindanewtothis]

I hope it works cause that's a lot of movement.

[seabass]

I was actually suggesting you use the original powerhead (pointed up) as opposed to the new one.  However, it's your judgement call.

[Kindanewtothis]

3 minutes ago, seabass said:

I was actually suggesting you use the original powerhead (pointed up) as opposed to the new one.  However, it's your judgement call.

Oh ok, I did not understand. The "old" powerhead for me was the one I added.

 

I'll point the small sicce up.

 

Thanks

[Kindanewtothis]

The good thing about the bacterial bloom in the 10g is that I have white sand without any dinos that I can see.

 

Still cyano (less than it used to) in the 50g but right now, except from some removal with the turkey baster (new one, things don't get out), i keep my hand out of the tank. CUC is doing an amazing job.

[Kindanewtothis]

Also there is a pods bloom in the 10g. Could there be any link with the bacterial bloom?

 

All the dots are pods in the pic.

 

[seabass]

35 minutes ago, Kindanewtothis said:

Also there is a pods bloom in the 10g. Could there be any link with the bacterial bloom?

It's possible; some pods are thought to scavenge bacteria from detritus and algae.  I suspect it's more than just a coincidence.  Although I've never heard of anybody culturing pods with just bacteria.

[Kindanewtothis]

4 minutes ago, seabass said:

It's possible; some pods are thought to scavenge bacteria from detritus and algae.  I suspect it's more than just a coincidence.  Although I've never heard of anybody culturing pods with just bacteria.

I see at least a 100 of them so there must be much more. I dosed a little bit more phyto last night and will do the same for a while.

[Kindanewtothis]

Harvest!

[Kindanewtothis]

Got pods?

[Kindanewtothis]

Flow helped, but still a lot of cyano in the 50g but the tank has looked so much worst that I'm still proud.

[Kindanewtothis]

Btw I haven't cleaned the walls for days now. The CUC was missing in that tank but would they have survived the dinos?

[Kindanewtothis]

14 liters water change on the 10g. Still cloudy but a bit clearer.

[Kindanewtothis]

Moved the frogspawn colony next to the other frogspawn. It's not a hammer colony. Needed the place for future hammers and they were almost touching (my frogspawn and the hammers)

 

Picture of my foot included!

[Kindanewtothis]

So far it doesn't seems to care that I moved it.

[Kindanewtothis]

Phosphate 0.25

Nitrate 9.5

[Kindanewtothis]

Should I removed the skeleton of the hammer that died?

[Tired]

No. It's possible there are bits of flesh left that could grow back. You can move it off the rockwork, but keep it right-side-up, and leave it in the tank. 

[Kindanewtothis]

30 minutes ago, Tired said:

No. It's possible there are bits of flesh left that could grow back. You can move it off the rockwork, but keep it right-side-up, and leave it in the tank. 

Ok, not moving it at all then.

[Clown79]

I've never had a euphyllia recover from bits of flesh or polyp bail out.

 

Any other coral like brains, blasto, trumpets, chalice, plates i have seen recover from the smallest amount of flesh but euphyllia, skeleton just became an algae magnet.