I think I’ll stick to manual removal for at least a little while longer before starting that major headache. I think my problem was that when I asked on R2R about them on the huge monti cap (which I now realize they ate)… I was told that they were just eating the algae off the dead tissue. So they got at least a week or two head start on me. I may be getting ahead of them slowly, and hopefully the wrasse will pick at some of the tiny ones for me. I’ve started a graveyard of perps on top of my light so I can feel like progress is being made. Last night when I checked three times, I found probably 6 of the little buggers.
On a brighter note, I think the trachy is healing up. The whelks seem to leave LPS and softies alone for the most part, I caught one on the trachy early on, but he met his demise quickly. I even took a sideways picture for your viewing pleasure ::
Looking better [emoji16]. Wish I had room for another. My sand bed is covered to the point I have no room for my shrooms to go in the 60. Never doing a cube again, til the next time lol
Only problem I see with this is he will need to keep the fish in his qt tank for awhile because he will create a nitrate bomb. Also the sand would have to be established again. This is your last ditch effort I'd say.
Rinsing the sand thoroughly eliminates any threat of a nitrate bomb.
The live rock is more than sufficient to handle the “new sand”
Fluctuating parameters will barely be detectable, I have transplanted my tank three times in 6 years the sand, corals and fish all made it through, with zero losses. Never a detectable ammonia or nitrate spike.
This suggestion is based on personal experience, and just that a suggestion.
I would not advocate using copper in any capacity. So that wouldn’t be an issue in my scennario.
I am just offering a practical solution that cost zero dollars and if done correctly and minimal risk at best.
I would have to make sure to inspect the rocks super well if I did it your way Donavon, I find them crawling on the rocks a lot of the time and it seems like they hide in the dark overhangs during the day. I hadn’t seen any for a while, then after checking last night those three times found somewhere around 6 of them. Beside damaging the pocillopora the other day, I haven’t observed any obvious damage. Since the issue seems to be somewhat controlled, I’ll hold off on draining the tank and searching the rocks for them unless it gets worse. If it comes to that point, I’ll be sure to invite you over for the evening Donavon lOl
Oh, and I tried to feed the trachy some mysis today, still no response beside opening it’s mouth. No polyp extension. But it continues to look better so I won’t worry too much. I feed the tank plenty, cyclops, mysis, phyto, so maybe it’s getting enough just passing by.
Ha ha, I would Definately go in elbows deep for you Kyle. I hope I didn’t sound grumpy in my earlier post.
Didn’t mean to rub anyone the wrong way.
There are many ways to “skin a cat” I don’t think that my suggestion is the best or only way just another way.
I struggled with majano anemones for a couple years, I finally gained control when I took every rock out and chiseled the little stinkers off, totally scrapped a few rocks, and even after all that a few popped up over a few weeks. But it certainly made it easier to manage after the big ugly project.
Interestingly I still have my two little pets (experimental snails)
They have no interest in limpets, or star fish, but when I put the acro in there they go to it and concentrate on broken end…very odd
There are many ways to skin a cat.
Wouldn’t the clean sand cause a cycle which in turn would cause nitrates, etc to jump. I never had to do a tank transfer personally. So I don’t have the personal experience on this so I try to look at things in a logical way, not always right but sounds good to me lol.
whelks can be lured easily with a silverside, just lay it on the bottom of the tank in a low flow area and they will be all over it, if you don’t have silversides you can use a piece of fresh shrimp.
Wouldn't the clean sand cause a cycle which in turn would cause nitrates, etc to jump
Clean sand shouldn’t affect The cycle at all if it is truly clean. There would have to be organics in the sand - that would cause amonia, then nitrite, then nitrate, etc… if the sand is clean it is simply an inert substance, a place for bacteria to colonize.
The risk would be not rinsing the sand well enough , that would likely be a disaster, most certainly starting an unbalanced cycle
Any how that’s the way I understand it,as a layman
I’ll have to try it with a piece of shrimp tomorrow evening. I get off at 10 and have to be at a different employer at 11 lol. No time tonight
If this video works, it’s a pistol shrimp / tangaroa goby symbiotic relationship I think the idea of symbiotic relationships that we can readily see in our aquariums is awesome. Next will be a clown to go with my BTA. Only complaint is the shrimp constantly moves sand, so the water is a little cloudy all day long lol.
I also replaced the mandarin who died going through QT I got a teenie tiny Biota Mandarin, since they are “trained” to eat cyclops as well as a few other frozen foods from birth. They’re also aquacultured so they should be hardier and have less of an environmental impact. The little guy is doing quite well so far! Picking at pods throughout the day and I think he’s eating frozen cyclops when I add it too. :BEER
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I think the idea of symbiotic relationships that we can readily see in our aquariums is awesome. Next will be a clown to go with my BTA. Only complaint is the shrimp constantly moves sand, so the water is a little cloudy all day long lol.
I got a teenie tiny Biota Mandarin, since they are “trained” to eat cyclops as well as a few other frozen foods from birth. They’re also aquacultured so they should be hardier and have less of an environmental impact. The little guy is doing quite well so far! Picking at pods throughout the day and I think he’s eating frozen cyclops when I add it too. :BEER