Cali Kid Corals

Green cyano I think

PjFish said:
I don't see any coral on the rocks plus ur BB
Is this tank just a temporary holding tank?
I'd toss the nems in a bucket and completely breakdown the tank scrubbing everything rocks/ tank down with a dish brush with clean rince.. Looks like the back wall has alota grass also . Should only take you 30 min max..Then fill with 100% new heated water and add stock back..toss in a UV maybe lower the light intensity/hours or change to blue light only!!
cyano is a bacteria add some beneficial bacteria like brightwells microbactor 7 or PNSB @Darkxerox to help out compete it..If you have rocks to switch out and let these dry would be best..Idea toss the nems in the new budget build temporary and ditch the 32g bio cube alot easier to do water changes and keep a handle on things in smaller tank.. With changing 5 gallons a week you should have no issues with the nems temporarily.
Do you have a microscope? to check for dinos
Good luck
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Hmm thanks alot, I never considered throwing them in the budget build short term. That would make things very easy for me.

This biocube32 was going to be the nem tank. It wasn't set up at all, i rushed to set it up as only a quarantine as you refrenced. So only ment to be temporary in its current configuuation.

The rocks the nems are on and two other small rocks are what I took from the 200gallon tank (probably 5lb of rock total). The big structure under the top shelf rock was a structure I had specific made for the nem tank (15lbs fused together).

I will need to break this tank down in any case and do a reset on it, as the future nem tank it was intended to be. I have all the componets in place to mirror it like my current main biocube32 is. Just never set it all up yet. Skimmer, filtration, lighting mods etc.

I will strongly consider using budget build to hold them. Than move fish to another tank. Than clean and restart this tank.

The dedicated nem tank I was planning to be a the only single focused tank I have with only nems. I took the nems out of my main tank, 65gallon has my 3 orginal nems. The other biocube has 8-10 different nems. In short its around 25-30 best guess nems that would be in the nem only tank with a pair of clowns.

Getting this tank broken down is a obvious step. Having it set up properly to keep all the nems. All the zoas and leathers are meant for the lowboy frag tank. Allowing me to get rid of the 65 gallon tank, and one of the biocubes.

Ultimately In total I plan for 3 tanks.
1.) 210gallon tank
2.) Lowboy frag tank
3.) Nem tank

*4.) My current main tank with my prized corals I'm crazy about keeping this maintained. I've had this running one over 3.5 years. Once the 210 was running for a while and dialed in I would consider transfering these coral to the 210gallon tank. Yet not before I'm 100% confident as I tried it with the 65gallon tank and 70% of my hammers suffered, I've lost half the ones I put into it and the other half are still struggling weeks later after being put back into my main tank.(Only happy I decided not to place any of my special hammers or torches in that as well)

This 6 gallon budget build tank is really just for the exhibition only, and involves min effort so I don’t even really consider it in the tank number. I doubt It’s one I would keep going after the contest ends.
 
MichaelB said:
Yet This cyano tank is the biocube I would be keeping for nems.
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I would do a combination of what was suggested. Siphon and clean it up the best you can. If you aren't going to do a tank breakdown, then consider improving the biodiversity first. Like John mentioned about the balance.
If it came out of that tank like that, it's safe to assume it was neglected or out of balance there. It is now out competing stuff in your tank. I'd consider mature media from someone else and maybe even some AF Life Source treatments, after a good siphon and water change.
 
ReyDeFarts said:
I would do a combination of what was suggested. Siphon and clean it up the best you can. If you aren't going to do a tank breakdown, then consider improving the biodiversity first. Like John mentioned about the balance.
If it came out of that tank like that, it's safe to assume it was neglected or out of balance there. It is now out competing stuff in your tank. I'd consider mature media from someone else and maybe even some AF Life Source treatments, after a good siphon and water change.
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Also interesting point i never fully considered, I've added nothing to that tank from any of my tanks. The rock structure i added was curing for almost 2 months but was completely dead rock before in its own separate tote of salt water. I can easily see that the only truly living stuff was those rocks from the 200gal. I honestly plan to break this tank down in any case. How its currently set up was more a rush job due to getting the fish and nems. Far from how I planed it for nems.
 
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