- Joined
- Feb 15, 2023
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- Guadalajara, Mexico
Hi reefers,
3 weeks ago I was in the dilemma of almost quitting with my tank due to a massive Aptasia invasion, or I could invest time, money and all my effort to start again. As you can imagine I decided to put all my efforts and recover my tank.
This is a picture of how my tank looked 3 weeks ago. A huge infestation of aptasias, poor water quality, low salinity, low water circulation. In other words a recipe for disaster. Im still amazed that within these conditions my fish and some corals survived.
I also had a pretty big skeleton of a nice bird nest coral that grew huge and 8 months ago I had a light issue during a business trip and I lost 95% of the colony, after that Aptasias started to nest in the skeleton areas.
To make a story short, the aptasia infestation was so big that I needed huge amounts of aptasia X filling my poor tank with more chimicals , so I ended doing extreme measures, I boiled the rocks and scrubbed it with a brush. My kitchen had a weird smell and the whole operation took 4 hours. I ended up doing a 20% water change and started increasing the salinity levels to reach 1.024, that inmediatly caused a relief in the corals, as my Duncan now streched its polyps and started recovering its color. I also had 5 green sarcophyton that survived and were happy with the new salinity levels. I also had a homemade LED lights that I purchased in my LFS that needed to replace some LEDs, instead of fixing this old LED strip I bought a 39” coral grow smart strip from aquailumination and so far I love my new lights.
This weekend was the 3rd week of the recovery process and my water parameters are better kh 9.6, Mg 1260, Ca 430. I need to update the rest of the tests.
I went to a couple of LFS this past weekend and started imagining what to add. As this is basically my 3rd tank, (I consider this one a reborn one) Ill be smarted stocking corals as I already had added for example Clavularia coral and green star polyps that took over all the rocks. This time I want to focus on some Montiporas and add torch and some Goniopora coral.
Ill continue to show the progress of my tank. Im thankful that I decided to invest my time, energy to recover my tank, I forgot that sensation of peace staring at a reef tank. Ill be happy to receive advices during my process.
thanks for reading this.
3 weeks ago I was in the dilemma of almost quitting with my tank due to a massive Aptasia invasion, or I could invest time, money and all my effort to start again. As you can imagine I decided to put all my efforts and recover my tank.
This is a picture of how my tank looked 3 weeks ago. A huge infestation of aptasias, poor water quality, low salinity, low water circulation. In other words a recipe for disaster. Im still amazed that within these conditions my fish and some corals survived.
I also had a pretty big skeleton of a nice bird nest coral that grew huge and 8 months ago I had a light issue during a business trip and I lost 95% of the colony, after that Aptasias started to nest in the skeleton areas.
To make a story short, the aptasia infestation was so big that I needed huge amounts of aptasia X filling my poor tank with more chimicals , so I ended doing extreme measures, I boiled the rocks and scrubbed it with a brush. My kitchen had a weird smell and the whole operation took 4 hours. I ended up doing a 20% water change and started increasing the salinity levels to reach 1.024, that inmediatly caused a relief in the corals, as my Duncan now streched its polyps and started recovering its color. I also had 5 green sarcophyton that survived and were happy with the new salinity levels. I also had a homemade LED lights that I purchased in my LFS that needed to replace some LEDs, instead of fixing this old LED strip I bought a 39” coral grow smart strip from aquailumination and so far I love my new lights.
This weekend was the 3rd week of the recovery process and my water parameters are better kh 9.6, Mg 1260, Ca 430. I need to update the rest of the tests.
I went to a couple of LFS this past weekend and started imagining what to add. As this is basically my 3rd tank, (I consider this one a reborn one) Ill be smarted stocking corals as I already had added for example Clavularia coral and green star polyps that took over all the rocks. This time I want to focus on some Montiporas and add torch and some Goniopora coral.
Ill continue to show the progress of my tank. Im thankful that I decided to invest my time, energy to recover my tank, I forgot that sensation of peace staring at a reef tank. Ill be happy to receive advices during my process.
thanks for reading this.