My Magnificent Sea Anemone Journey....
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Oh man....lol. Thanks, but i can assure im just a normal reefer trying to do right by the animals i keep. Thank you very much for the compliment.
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Nah, you are skilled. And glad the mag is doing good. They are my favorite type of nem and glad to see others caring for them like I do.
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I caught this again last night. I notice when the nem is happy it balls up...
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Thank brother... you were with me from the beginning....much appreciated
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Family! It's been a while. Dealing with life and my reef. This update includes good news and bad news.
The Good:
I finally beat cyano...finally. It's been months dealing with it and i didnt want to use chemicals to get rid of it based on past experience. My Purple Mag is doing great and its HUGE! The last update it was big (may not appear so based on the pix and video) This anemone is nearly 18 inches..... My remaining corals rewarded me by producing some of the most amazing colors i've seen yet (Stay tuned, will post on build thread)... a great motivator for sure! now to the bad....
The bad:
I introduced a frag that had a bacterial infection... that literally jumped from colony to colony wiping out a lot of my corals i had for years. That was painful. Interestingly enough... the colonies with acro crabs were not impacted... but most others were. Either STN completely or some of the branches.... the remaining ones are recovering.... i think
The Good:
I finally beat cyano...finally. It's been months dealing with it and i didnt want to use chemicals to get rid of it based on past experience. My Purple Mag is doing great and its HUGE! The last update it was big (may not appear so based on the pix and video) This anemone is nearly 18 inches..... My remaining corals rewarded me by producing some of the most amazing colors i've seen yet (Stay tuned, will post on build thread)... a great motivator for sure! now to the bad....
The bad:
I introduced a frag that had a bacterial infection... that literally jumped from colony to colony wiping out a lot of my corals i had for years. That was painful. Interestingly enough... the colonies with acro crabs were not impacted... but most others were. Either STN completely or some of the branches.... the remaining ones are recovering.... i think
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I've had success dosing my entire tank 3 times with Cipro. Could be expensive but worth it if you're about to lose large colonies. I have a 140 gal tank so I dosed 7 pills a night for 7 days and turned off my skimmer, algae reactor, and reef mat at night. I don't do any water changes.
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Thanks brother... unfortunately the damage is done.
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I started growing and dosing my own phytoplankton.... instead of dosing phosphate.... i dose enough phyto to supplement my phosphate needs while getting the benefit of phyto... 2 for 1 i like to call it.
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@Maxx !! Whats up brother! I was really nervous about the very questions you ask. Its super duper easy....and my reef so far is doing amazing with the daily addition.
I bought a kit online.... added the live cultures with fresh brackish water (i do this to minimize salinity spikes) 1.014, add a little fertilizer and sit it in my window (natural light ftw) near the tank....wait 5-7 days based on how dark it is... i harvest 2/3 and add more water and repeat. I have so much of this stuff now that i will prolly start giving it away. Last point... i think this has more to do with the freshness vs. anything else, but i feel like the quality is better as well....pod population has exploded!
The kit is a very popular one on amazon... only other expense was a very small airpump... thats it!
The mag is soooo big... i havent directly fed it in months... this is a 300 gallon system guys 6 foot long just to give you an idea..
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Lol yeah bro i still have the same clownfish, they breed every week or so....they were on the other side of the mop prepping the area to lay their eggs.
This is the kit i got
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