+Capt. Obvious Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Well here it is my new project! To keep it brief I "acquired" another tank (75gallon reef ready) to add to my living room, chock full of live rock, sps, lps, various zoos and mushrooms....oh and I forgot to mention...a metric A$$ ton of hair algae, bubble algae and aiptasia! I will provide some before pictures, some during move pictures, and some NOW pictures in a moment and I plan to blog and document the entire process. As soon as all the algae and aiptasia are controlled expect to see some frags hitting the market! so if anyone is keeping count I am at 5 tanks running Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 Before: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 during: and finally ...now...: A long way to go but it is a start... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooks Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Oh wow! Looking better though. Kredygo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dapettit Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 So far so good. I understand your situation we purchased a 150 with a mega tone of hair algae . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb in Austin Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 How did you remove the GHA? Looks like a great start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chark Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Wow! ! ! What a cleanup job. How do you plan on keeping the GHA from coming back? What is that large pink coral? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 how did I remove GHA...toothbrush and fingers. as for gha prevention..there is still a ton in there but simply put...proper husbandry and phosban. that and I am not going to feed the tank for a while. today I get 5-7 peppermint shrimp and 4 lawnmower blennies...then it is a waiting game. large pink coral...dunno which one you mean there is a massive monti cap that weighs about 40lbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Holy Hair Algae Batman! Was that tank on auto-pilot for a year to get like that? Even when I had a hair algae outbreak in my old 24g, it still looked "nice". That gigantic monti is awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truckin Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Out of curiosity, did you move the tank with everything in it? Could give us a brief description of your process in the move? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooks Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Out of curiosity, did you move the tank with everything in it? Could give us a brief description of your process in the move? I'm interested in knowing that as well. I might be moving at the end of May so I'm looking for opinions on how to move them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 Out of curiosity, did you move the tank with everything in it? Could give us a brief description of your process in the move? here it is ...as brief as it gets: arrive at 10:30 am drink coffee and bs for at least an hour (this step is very important) take pictures siphon 2.5 gallons of water into four 5 gallon home depot buckets (each) remove all live rock place in several coolers or Rubbermaid containers carefully remove massive monti and place in Styrofoam cooler remove corals: sps in one bucket lps in one bucket shrooms in one zoos in one galaxia in one by itself siphon out majority of water chase hogfish around with net catch hogfish scoop sand, put into another bucket pause (insert alcohol here highly recommended ) take more pictures remove plumbing and bulkheads lift off tank and take outside. scrub and curse vigerously empty sump and clear stand realize it is now 3pm load van and car drive an hour unload tank and stand in house unload all buckets and equip to the driveway release livestock into my other tank scrub and pick at live rock for hours put live rock in tank attempting to point all attached corals "up" (have friends show up 1/2 way through...thx sanfords) add sand after 1/4 of live rock is in finish rockscaping...add water fire up return pump and skimmer add all corals dip powerheads in muriatic acid...and for poseidon's sake wear gloves and eye protection ..and do it outside flush with water flush with water flush with water flush with water etc throw the lights on drink heavily question sanity stare take more pictures post here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbnj Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 I heard Monti caps cause GHA.....better give it to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 I heard Monti caps cause GHA.....better give it to me. yup...the same way money causes problems...give all of yours to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbnj Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 yup...the same way money causes problems...give all of yours to me Touché Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 Touché *bows* headed south with a sea hare, lawnmower blenny, 3 peppermint shrimp, 2 emerald crabs, a pistol shrimp and a shrimp goby ...ok the pistol shrimp and goby have nothing to do with this project or tank...impulse buys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooks Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 here it is ...as brief as it gets:arrive at 10:30 am drink coffee and bs for at least an hour (this step is very important) take pictures siphon 2.5 gallons of water into four 5 gallon home depot buckets (each) remove all live rock place in several coolers or rubbermaid containers carefully remove massive monti and place in styrofoam cooler remove corals: sps in one bucket lps in one bucket shrooms in one zoos in one galaxia in one by itself siphon out majority of water chase hogfish around with net catch hogfish scoop sandbut into another bucket pause (insert alcohol here highly recommended ) take more pictures remove plumbing and bulkheads lift off tank and take outside. scrub and curse vigerously empty sump and clear stand realize it is now 3pm load van and car drive an hour unload tank and stand in house unload all buckets and equip to the driveway release livestock into my other tank scrub and pick at live rock for hours put live rock in tank attempting to point all attached corals "up" (have frinds show up 1/2 way through...thx sanfords) add sand after 1/4 of live rock is in finish rock scaping...add water fire up return pump and skimmer add all corals dip powerheads in muriatic acid...and for poseidon's sake wear gloves and eye protection ..and do it outside flush with water flush with water flush with water flush with water etc throw the lights on drink heavily question sanity stare take more pictures post here Red= Win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 *takes bow* thank you thank you...tip your waitress , try the veal! I know it is a long shot but is anyone willing to "donate to the cause" NO MONEY ($$$) PLEASE! I REPEAT NO MONEY BUT>>>> if you have ANY algae eaters (snails, hermits, lawnmower blennys) or aiptasia eaters (peppermint shrimp, baghira nudibranch, copper banded) you want to loan/sell/donate to this endeavor I would be more than grateful. need the most are hermits/turbo snails/ peppermint shrimp....well hell everything/anything helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 9, 2009 Author Share Posted April 9, 2009 update: there is one clean rock now! ok but I "cheated", I transplanted this one into my 120g and let my massive cleanup crew do it's work...and they did. Pics to come! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 9, 2009 Author Share Posted April 9, 2009 Here are the before Pics: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 9, 2009 Author Share Posted April 9, 2009 Here are the after pictures (it was moved into my wife's Tiger Pistol Shrimp/Randall's Goby nano) Pictures taken under a 10k 18w power compact light with no actinic If anyone knows the "name" of these Zoanthids I'd appreciate an ID Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 13, 2009 Author Share Posted April 13, 2009 Zoanthids are wildfires. Now on to the actual "news" At approximately 9pm tonight I decided to fashion an algae turf scrubber (ATS) out op some excess plumbing and a small pump. we'll see what this can actually do (if anything) for this nasty tank... next possible step might be vodka dosing (maybe) but already things are looking better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 update: here is a Ricordia/Palythoa rock as it was 7 days ago: And here is the SAME rock, just a euroreef rs80, 3days on a makeshift ATS (that is beginning to grow) asmall clean up crew, normal light cycle, 0 water changes from day 1 (yet...one slated for a week from now) and have NEVER fed the tank oh and yes I know the glass is very dirty....i cannot keep my hands out of the tank and there is dried salt all over the front glass....guess i could clean it up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysanford Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 It's looking good. Keep up the good work. I'm sure it is going to look awesome in the next week or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Got any pictures of the ATS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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