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Ryan’s 40G first reef

The last of my acros aren't doing well. If I lose them then I will move my frag rack to the top and turn down my lights to half. Both montis and a stylo are growing so I guess I can only keep easy SPS right now, at the most.

Also I think I have Bryopsis. Can anyone confirm?
 
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H2OPlayar said:
Don't add anything, just grab it and pull it out.
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Yah, just manually remove it. Stop buying products to fix stuff you can just manually manage right now. You can remove a rock and treat locally with Hydrogen Peroxide 3% or even drain the tank and treat it on the rock then fill the tank back up with a WC. Your propensity to just buy this to treat that will get you nowhere other then poorer. Not sure how many times you need to hear that, but I will keep saying it until I loose interest in your thread.

You can't buy yourself to a successful tank. You need to put in the work with husbandry not Amazon purchases. Reef Flux would be a solution if you had a stocked tank and could not just manage the outbreak as it inherently has a negative like everything else you need to balance. If you had a stocked tank and positive outweighed the negative, sure go that route, but you have a tank full of rock with no negative to attack it head on. Just manually getting after it
 
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Qwiv said:
Yah, just manually remove it. Stop buying products to fix stuff you can just manually manage right now. You can remove a rock and treat locally with Hydrogen Peroxide 3% or even drain the tank and treat it on the rock then fill the tank back up with a WC. Your propensity to just buy this to treat that will get you nowhere other then poorer. Not sure how many times you need to hear that, but I will keep saying it until I loose interest in your thread.

You can't buy yourself to a successful tank. You need to put in the work with husbandry not Amazon purchases. Reef Flux would be a solution if you had a stocked tank and could not just manage the outbreak as it inherently has a negative like everything else you need to balance. If you had a stocked tank and positive outweighed the negative, sure go that route, but you have a tank full of rock with no negative to attack it head on. Just manually getting after it
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I think we got off on the wrong foot because I'm in no way trying to "buy this cure that" my way into a successful reef. I just want to maintain good husbandry and I thought that includes nuking bryopsis when it first appears.
I will manually pull it out and treat with H2O2. I glued my aquascape as one piece and it will come apart if I ever need to remove it which I am avoiding unless it's necessary.
 
A couple Nassarius snails help alot stirring the sand bed since they sleep under the sand and only eat algae I've always had them in my tanks for that reason
 
rdriggett said:
I think we got off on the wrong foot because I'm in no way trying to "buy this cure that" my way into a successful reef. I just want to maintain good husbandry and I thought that includes nuking bryopsis when it first appears.
I will manually pull it out and treat with H2O2. I glued my aquascape as one piece and it will come apart if I ever need to remove it which I am avoiding unless it's necessary.
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I'm not trying to be harsh, just trying to help. Your thread is full of I have this problem so I bought this to resolve it.
H2OPlayar said:
Oh, I got all the pests!
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Probably came in on those cool shorts you got.
 
rdriggett said:
I do appreciate the advice from anyone who take time out of their day to help me.
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Everyone is here to help and there are a lot of good refers in the area which have certainly helped me so much in the past and will hopefully help me when I get past my understanding on this new tank.

I'd drain your tank just down below the Bryopsis and spray them with the peroxide, and let it sit for a few minutes, then refill with some clean water. That and turning your lights down should knock it out for you and keep everything on track for you. Repeat if you missed something. The WC will certainly be good for the tank as well. Biopsies is a PITA when you have it, so best to get it now and try your best not to reintroduce.

Here is for for thought for you. Looks like you have Marco rock or some other dry rock. This came from some geological event that wiped out that old reef. Everything died. Then is was buried underground for a however long and whatever eventually covered it was not a nice clean pristine reef. It would be safe to assume all the pores in that rock are chock full of stuff you would prefer is NOT in there, so it needs time to leach out, re-populate and just get healthy again. That takes time and water changes to dilute/export it. Just focus on getting past that. You can 100% water change you way out everything right now and use the cheapest salt available as you don't need to worry about all the levels and chemistry. It will get there then you can tackle the complexities of keeping acros happy and that chemistry lesson. You can spend the next few months digging into that and sorting through the facts and fiction. Maybe post what you plan to do and get some solid opinions from the smart people here, then choose the next corse of action after consideration.

Figure out how you want to get live sand?
 
Qwiv said:
Everyone is here to help and there are a lot of good refers in the area which have certainly helped me so much in the past and will hopefully help me when I get past my understanding on this new tank.

I'd drain your tank just down below the Bryopsis and spray them with the peroxide, and let it sit for a few minutes, then refill with some clean water. That and turning your lights down should knock it out for you and keep everything on track for you. Repeat if you missed something. The WC will certainly be good for the tank as well. Biopsies is a PITA when you have it, so best to get it now and try your best not to reintroduce.

Here is for for thought for you. Looks like you have Marco rock or some other dry rock. This came from some geological event that wiped out that old reef. Everything died. Then is was buried underground for a however long and whatever eventually covered it was not a nice clean pristine reef. It would be safe to assume all the pores in that rock are chock full of stuff you would prefer is NOT in there, so it needs time to leach out, re-populate and just get healthy again. That takes time and water changes to dilute/export it. Just focus on getting past that. You can 100% water change you way out everything right now and use the cheapest salt available as you don't need to worry about all the levels and chemistry. It will get there then you can tackle the complexities of keeping acros happy and that chemistry lesson. You can spend the next few months digging into that and sorting through the facts and fiction. Maybe post what you plan to do and get some solid opinions from the smart people here, then choose the next corse of action after consideration.

Figure out how you want to get live sand?
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I don't think I would have made it this far into reefing without BAR!
The worst of my bryopsis is about 3 inches off the sand bed. Is it safe to drain that much water?
I'm still doing 10-20G weekly WC.
My rock is used rock I got from a BAR member. I bleached it and then soaked in multiple baths of water and seachem safe (powdered prime). Does that change anything or will it still have tons of die off?
I'm giving up on acros for a little while as I focus on getting the tank stable and through the uglies.
I'm signed up for the email waiting list from your first link for live sand.

Plan going forward:
Weekly testing and WC
Manual algae removal
I'd still love to nuke it with Flux but I can hold off on that based on feedback.

Questions: My GHA and Bryopsis vacuum up my NO3PO4 before I can test for it. Should I continue minimal frozen feedings or are my bottomed out nutrients risking dinos?
 
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