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    Back in the hobby

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    I'm going to follow Dave's example and formally announce a return to the hobby. 

     

    I walked away from reef keeping in 2016 amid a financial crisis in my business. For the past 3 years I've been completely consumed with reorganizing and fixing those issues and in 2018 we turned a corner and are doing really well. Phew. Of course all of that left no time to maintain a decent reef tank. While I did not take my tank down, it was pretty seriously neglected. I went with a "fish only and whatever else can survive with no maintenance" system. 

     

    A few months ago I realized I was markedly less stressed than I had been, and thought, "Hey, what's that giant box of water doing in my living room.... " I started messing around and almost immediately all of the joy (and obsession) came back. I now have the time and the interest and have jumped back in. Part of that was a return to lurking around the WAMAS forums. I posted here and there in the past few weeks. 

     

    So I am super excited to "see" you all again. I re-did all my rock, added new pumps, and am really happy and excited about my "new" tank. 

     

    My biggest current issue is finding some fish. My existing fish have gotten quite used to living alone. I recently got a shipment from Live Aquaria that was delayed by UPS so everything arrived dead. That is traumatic for me so I am now looking to buy locally.

     

    My tank is a 250g and has:

    2 small tangs (Scopas and bristle tooth),

    1 large rabbitfish, (only addition during my hiatus to control algae) 

    2 clowns,

    1 algae blenny, 

    1 single bad ass female lyre tail anthias

    1 bad ass carpenter wrasse

    1 ancient bent Bangaii

     

    I am looking for some fish additions that might make the tank seem less empty but not %$#* off the current inhabitants. I tried adding more Lyretail anthias but the existing female hunted them all down and killed them. Same thing with the wrasse when I tried to add other wrasse (same sp). Open to suggestions!

     

     

     

     

     

    Forum Problems? Report Here.

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    14 hours ago, Origami said:

    Laura, I took a peek inside your gallery settings. The For Sale album is marked private. Mark it public and the pictures should be able to be displayed in your post(s).

    Thank Tom.  But a new problem. Now when I go to gallery and double click I no longer have the "copy link" option. 

    I also don't see where the "private or public" settings are. 

    Epic final battle

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    I agree with what Zygote recommends. You probably need a bigger skimmer. 

     

    You also don't have any herbivores that will eat algae off the rocks. Once you get it under control an algae eating fish will help keep it under control. 

     

    I used fluconazole to help get rid of bryopsis and it also got rid of my GHA. I also added a large rabbit fish to assist. 

     

    Good luck. 

    Fluconazole byropisis treatment

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     20 mg/g

     

    1 dose on day one. 

     

    No water changes, although I am planning one now. 

     

    I don't run carbon or anything else.  I took my skimmer off line and removed my filter sock. 

     

    There are some small patches of hair algae around still. 

     

     

    Before: 

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    After

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    Fluconazole byropisis treatment

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    So, I treated my tank about 10 days ago.  

     

    I had some persistent bryopsiss that I couldn't get manually and didn't die off with high Mg and a fair amount of hair algae. 

     

    It's all gone. 

     

    I have a bare bottom tank so no sand to deal with and my skimmer was off the entire time. 

    Did you forgot your coral?

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    We found a bag of coral that was left behind at the meeting. If you left a bag behind ( and can descibe it's contents with some accuracy) please let us know!

     

    I have your corals in my sump on Arlington VA. Not going to unbag them just yet.

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