What is your current "Reefing Struggle Bus" issue right now? Maybe someone can help!

[GatorGreg]

Not having about 15 thousand spare dollars to go full blown goofball on my tank

That’s my struggle bus problem right now

 

[Cichlid Dad]

I am struggling with the slur that Reefers all ride to school on the Short Bus and throw Achilles tangs out the window on the way.

I think I belong on the short bus, keeping a piece of a tropical ocean in my home thousands of miles away from any tropical reef, finding myself thinking about water, thinking about what I can do without to pay for the next upgrade, holding conversations with myself "does the reef look full enough? You don't want to ever doit! Remember you have to have room for them to grow. Ya but I saw that nice colony at the LFS, and it's only 200.00. ya but for 200.00 you can get 4 of those acro frags you always want ". Ect..... Ya I belong on the short bus throwing money out the window instead of tangs

 

[KrisReef]

I think I belong on the short bus, keeping a piece of a tropical ocean in my home thousands of miles away from any tropical reef, finding myself thinking about water, thinking about what I can do without to pay for the next upgrade, holding conversations with myself "does the reef look full enough? You don't want to ever doit! Remember you have to have room for them to grow. Ya but I saw that nice colony at the LFS, and it's only 200.00. ya but for 200.00 you can get 4 of those acro frags you always want ". Ect..... Ya I belong on the short bus throwing money out the window instead of tangs

Lots of us have gotten on that bus too.

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

To he honest, scraping algae off the glass

 

[that_boy_fini]

Staying motivated have struggled with nitrates for awhile now I vodka dose do my water changes and all but still high really wish I started with live rock instead of dry rock now

 

[that_boy_fini]

Red flat Worms

A wrasse will help you a lot

 

[Cichlid Dad]

A wrasse will help you a lot

I got a six line, he has made a difference. I will be taking all of the coral and moving it to a larger tank. I'm lucky in that I have a 90 gallon and 55 full of pest free rock that's between 1 and 2 years old to add to the new system. I'll dip the coral and with the six line and a yellow coris I will be adding should keep the tank clear if the monsters

 

[Drewbacca]

Knowing where to place my corals to ensure they fill in the empty space in a way that looks good.
My tank is pretty new so I have tons of empty rock. Sometimes I think it would be beneficial if stores showed pictures of a full size coral colony before fragging it into tiny pieces! Makes it harder to visualize.

SOO TRUE.. This is one of my biggest peeves. Esp since acros show different colorations on the tip...and that's all you are selling me. But they know that.
WWC does a decent job with some effort... about ⅓ of their frags have pics of colonies included.
The size of frags in general needs To change and we need to stand up and unify, because as long as we keep buying 1" coral tips for $30 & 40.. they will keep doing it. How about one split on an acro.. Wait for it to encrust a little, or for the zoas to fill the quarter sized disc.. one zoa polyp? Are u serious? They aren't hard to grow.. and you are a pro at it right?

 

[Drewbacca]

I got a six line, he has made a difference. I will be taking all of the coral and moving it to a larger tank. I'm lucky in that I have a 90 gallon and 55 full of pest free rock that's between 1 and 2 years old to add to the new system. I'll dip the coral and with the six line and a yellow coris I will be adding should keep the tank clear if the monsters

Such a good point.. setting up a cheap extra petco tank somewhere with a heater and some rock and a powerhead.. add one clown and just let it run .. can save you fish, coral, and maybevyour whole main tank at some point.

 

[Doctorgori]

I have a dead tank

• zero algae growth , the glass is nearly clean after a week,
• ZERO coral growth
• marco algae dies
• no pod outbreaks on the glass, no bristleworms or anything crawling on rocks
• no critters other than purchased cuc
• unrelated but I’ve lost 2 fish to loss of appetite

 

[reef’r]

GHA and some dinos.

I feel your pain brother, and for some reason this time to Dino’s seem to be bothering my Zoas

 

[Drewbacca]

I have a dead tank

• zero algae growth , the glass is nearly clean after a week,
• ZERO coral growth
• marco algae dies
• no pod outbreaks on the glass, no bristleworms or anything crawling on rocks
• no critters other than purchased cuc
• unrelated but I’ve lost 2 fish to loss of appetite

I have so many questions. Pains mevand sorry to hear you are dealing w this. Assuming you don't know the problem and have tested all the majors? How old tank?

 

[Drewbacca]

I think I belong on the short bus, keeping a piece of a tropical ocean in my home thousands of miles away from any tropical reef, finding myself thinking about water, thinking about what I can do without to pay for the next upgrade, holding conversations with myself "does the reef look full enough? You don't want to ever doit! Remember you have to have room for them to grow. Ya but I saw that nice colony at the LFS, and it's only 200.00. ya but for 200.00 you can get 4 of those acro frags you always want ". Ect..... Ya I belong on the short bus throwing money out the window instead of tangs

Ha.. I'm currently looking to order a electrical ball valve for my co2 scrubber so i dont have to turn an air valve once at night and once in the am. So my ph doesnt go below 8.3. Once you finally get things dialed in and see things thriving.. your brain explodes.. I CAN GROW ANYTHING I WANT!! BAHAHAAA * Mad Scientist laugh.*
Point me to a frag sale! Who needs health insurance!.. 3 meals a day? Am I royalty?! A whole dinner set for a wedding gift?! Pssh.. there's only TWO of them! I MEAN, COME'ON...I'M SAVING THE GODD*MN CORAL REEFS HERE!!
lol!

 

[paintingsbyreb]

Mixed success with being able to keep my tank walls consistently clean with my work schedule. Currently my main irritation is even if I do keep up with quick passes scrubbing my glass there's always some pretty hard thin brown stuff that my scraper takes forever to get off.

 

[Drewbacca]

Staying motivated have struggled with nitrates for awhile now I vodka dose do my water changes and all but still high really wish I started with live rock instead of dry rock now

Hmm..
how old is your tank?
what nutrient export do you use?
How many fish & corals do you have?
.. and what do you feed?
Pics?

 

[Drewbacca]

Mixed success with being able to keep my tank walls consistently clean with my work schedule. Currently my main irritation is even if I do keep up with quick passes scrubbing my glass there's always some pretty hard thin brown stuff that my scraper takes forever to get off.

You have uv? And is the thin brown stuff somewhat translucent? The long thin stainless razor scaper is nice to touch those spots up once a week.

 

[that_boy_fini]

Hmm..
how old is your tank?
what nutrient export do you use?
How many fish & corals do you have?
.. and what do you feed?
Pics?

Rock is 2 yo tanks been set up since January of this year
I use vodka water changes and a skimmer
7 fish and we have a good bit of coral

Feed tdo pellets and frozen