Demm's 55g

[Demm]

took a couple new pictures today. tank looks a bit different since i took the gobies out and i had to remove the live rock. it looks like there's less rock in there now lol, not stacked as high. oh well that means that i can just get more

ok as for the pictures, just excuse the cyano, it's ugly and i'm working on it lol.

now on this next pic, there are some round leafed plants going next to and kinda in between the zoas...should i be worried about them taking over and killing the zoas?

 

[chrissaysyes]

Dude, the tank is looking top knotch!

 

[Demm]

thanks

so how about those round plant things growing out of the green zoas? should i be picking them out, or are they ok to stay there?

 

[Demm]

well i went out and got a couple of things. got a starry blenny to replace my sailfin blenny that died a month ago. also got another ocellaris to replace the one that dissapeared. so hopefully the one that i have right now will accept this one without to much fighting. also went and got a lime green ricordea, and 15 more astrea snails.

heres a picture of the blenny, i'll post some more pictures of the other things tomorrow.

 

[SkiFletch]

Blenny looks awesome, never seen one like that. One caution with them, some can nip at decorative Tridacnid clam mantles. Dunno about your specific species but just something to keep in the back of your mind

 

[Demm]

yea i read somewhere that it might. good thing for me i dont have any clams, nor do i plan on getting any, just dont seem like fun to me lol. thanks for the reminder

 

[chrissaysyes]

btw that round stuff looks kinda like halimeda in the pic, but I have a similar macro growing out of my zoas and I've identified it as a caulerpa, perhaps you have the same thing. I wouldnt pic it out, I prune mine whenever it gets too long, sometimes a little vine starts to reach out from the rock and try to spread to other rocks.

 

[Demm]

ok great news. 99% of my cyano is gone. tank looks SO much better now.

however before you start applauding me i did cheat. i totally lost the battle with the cyano, and finally i got fed up. i was at the fish store the other day and there was a product called "red slime control" made by blue vet. well i read the box and it said that it was reef safe and that it wont discolor my water...well of course i put it back down because i know chemical treatment is bad. but i kept it in the back of my mind. when i got home i did research on it, and i read countless stories about how people have softies, LPS, SPS, and it never effected those corals one bit. well i didnt believe it. so i kept researching. after reading no less then about 100 great reviews about how nothing was effected at all and the cyano never came back. ok so i went out and got some. well i'm used to stuff not working for me becaus ei'm just...unfortunate lol. i put in the product, and i went out with some friends. 6 hours later i came back, and the tank looked *NOTICIBLY* better. my jaw dropped. i had a TON of that cyano in there before, and now it was gone. so i turned off my light and went to sleep. in the morning there was maybe a coulpe little strands of cyano left, the rest was all gone.

here are the pics of a totally different looking tank without any cyano (there are 2 pics that have a bit left, but thats really all that's left)!!

here's a picture where you can tell. this happened over the course of 6 hours.

before:

After:

 

[chrissaysyes]

If it stays gone then I may need to check this stuff out. I keep getting patches on my sand

 

[Demm]

well i'll keep you updated. if it's gonna come back anywhere it'll be in my tank lol. stuff was only $14.99. treats 400 gallons as well.

anyways, here's the picture of the recordia, i forgot to post it.

it's not the nicest looking one, but it was cheap ($6) and i got it to see if i'm gonna be able to have these survive in my tank. it's a green one.

 

[Demm]

New fish:

clowns dont exactly like it yet...or each other for that matter, but they will eventually all get along

 

[chrissaysyes]

Foxface in a 55g hmm hope he does well!

 

[Demm]

its still small for now. i think about 3 inches or so. it will not be its permanent home in the least bit. soon i am expecting to get at least a 100g, so it will be moved once it gets to big, also talked to the owner of the LFS and he said he'd have no problem taking it back for whatever reason.

so not to worry, i will make sure it does well

 

[chrissaysyes]

Hells yeah, props to you then

 

[SkiFletch]

The "chemical" treatments for cyanobacteria are actually antibiotics. They do work wonders as you've shown but have 2 BIG risks. The first, if used improperly or too often, the antibiotics CAN harm your biofilter. I know the products claim they wont, but it can happen.

Second, if the antibiotic does not kill all the cyano, it will come back. And it may even come back in an antibiotic resistant strain. And good luck killing the antibiotic-resistant strain