Ravenmore

Yup - I'm familiar with Sanjey. Bright guy. Thanks for the links. I need to catch up with his work.

Thank you. He is just just blowing up like crazy. Since I have had him, he has many new small "polyps" or stems that are growing out. He was in my 110g, and I just placed him in this 80g just a few days before this pic. I really like the purple tipped pink plate coral. How long have you had it? Feeding them seems to be the problem - they come from sand/muddy surfaces in very murky high nutrient waters and I'm told they have a hard time getting enough food in our tanks. I have heard of one or two lasting long term but I believe they were being target fed. I've tried them twice and both lasted around 6 months. I tried target feeding the 2nd but didn't have much luck.

Thanks all! Mr. Cob, that'd be awesome - thanks! C Lo - yeah, I don't want a lot of high maintenance animals. I want to keep it as simple as possible.

I know I'm new to this board, but I've been in the hobby for years (off and on). Please don't take this as a criticism - it's just a very common trap people fall into. People always always always post that they don't understand why they have an algae problem but they don't detect high levels of any nutrients. They actually DO have a nutrient problem - the algae is simply doing them a favor and removing the nutrients from the water column, which is why it doesn't show up on any tests. The presence of the algae itself is the best 'test'. It wouldn't be there without the nutrients. So you do have a nitrate or phosphate issue. The thing is - if you just kill the algae while it is in the tank, you will release all those nutrients it filtered back into the water column. I'm fighting a big hair algae problem right now, and am taking a multi pronged approach. 1.) I'm trying to physically remove as much algae from the tank as I can. This exports the nutrients it absorbed out of the tank as well. 2.) I'm introducing critters that eat it - snails and a lawnmower blenny so far. 3.) I installed a refugium. I think a fuge is a simple and extremely effective way to export nutrients. You could also do an algae turf scrubber. Also -with cyano you might want to up the flow in the tank. Hope this helps!

Nice looking tank! Good luck with the gonipora though. I've never seen one survive long term in an aquarium.

Thanks! This is a very old tank though. It's a 75 gallon that I had, that I gave to my parents for 5+ years that they are now giving back to me. Some of the rock has been in the system for almost 12 years. Due to live stock choices over the years the pod and worm population has taken a hit. I haven't seen a single bristleworm since I've taken the tank back. The tank is currently lit with a dual 150 watt halide fixture, which is much less than I would normally run. I'm currently exploring LED's, which weren't around when I left. It has a remora skimmer and a 10 gallon - soon to be 20 gallon - refugium. Not much in the way of corals: Closed brain, Bubble coral, Frogspawn (with clownfish), lots of shrooms, some random zoos and palys, and a few leather corals. Might focus on stocking with zoos and ricordias - they look cool and are hardy

Hey all - returning to the hobby after being away for a while. My parents gave me their tank. I'm currently trying to restore it from a hair algae break out, so no pics yet. One thing I've noticed is that the pod/bristleworm population seems to be non existant. Is there a good local source for revitalizing this? Cheers!