Shallow reef tank

[johnmariados]

Read somewhere, (here I think), that you can squirt lemon juice with a syringe to kill aiptasia. Concerns include pH swing, so do google it, HTH.

[tropic]

What grade sand is that? Grade0?

[Admiraltian]

Nice minimalist style of scape.

[Eniram]

Aptasia in rocks my advice is to throw or suntan e rocks till bone dry.

Suntanning your rocks dry will kill almost every living creature but for sure you'll have a peaceful sleep as crabs, bristle worms and whatever dreaded pest will be killed.

No point using aptasia juice killer as upon contact they will shrink and hide. Also if the first shot of death juice ain't done properly you'll only aggravate it further and you might soon be a proud father of baby aptasia.

Happy reefing

[Soong Yu Juan]

What grade sand is that? Grade0?

Yup.. its dry oolite sand from madpetz. .

[Soong Yu Juan]

Aptasia in rocks my advice is to throw or suntan e rocks till bone dry.

Suntanning your rocks dry will kill almost every living creature but for sure you'll have a peaceful sleep as crabs, bristle worms and whatever dreaded pest will be killed.

No point using aptasia juice killer as upon contact they will shrink and hide. Also if the first shot of death juice ain't done properly you'll only aggravate it further and you might soon be a proud father of baby aptasia.

Happy reefing

After spending to buy live rock, cannot bear to kill it.. was thinking of peppermint shrimps... yeah, actually kinda in a dilemma. .

[Eniram]

Peppermint shrimp is not a 100% aptasia killer.

You do know that dead rocks can be alive again over time.

As for crabs you can make a trap using bait and essence of chicken bottle. 99.99% effective. That 1% failure is when cleaner shrimps beat them to it

[jamomatt]

I just mix kalk with water till it is a thick white paste, draw with a syringe and cover the mouth of the aiptasia. Works just like Joe's juice/aiptasia X except much cheaper. But they can never be truly eradicated As there will be small ones hiding somewhere and growing in the tank. I've done this for years and killed hundreds.

[Admiraltian]

Can try copperband butterfly, they feed on aiptasia too.

[jxlex]

I believe bro fuel brings in a variant of nudibranch that feeds exclusively on aiptisia.. Exclusive is a strong word meaning if no more aiptsia these nudi will also starve to death

[RushAct]

hi bro, just dry the rocks.. it will save you a lot of trouble in future. IMHO the number of rock inside your tank is very little so there isnt much biological filter the LR can provide.

[Soong Yu Juan]

hi bro, just dry the rocks.. it will save you a lot of trouble in future. IMHO the number of rock inside your tank is very little so there isnt much biological filter the LR can provide.

your presuasive argument drove me into action, i'm sunning the future zoas island now, hope the apitase has not spread to the other rocks...

[PROX]

Peppermint will eat all your aiptasia after few days of introduction. However, mine decided to go overboard and eat acans after the only single aiptasia got munch down completely.. On top of that, they also pick on my radioactive birdnest. I guess if you don't have enough food for them, they will go and eat something else. Your tank is pretty shallow so no harm giving it a try. After all, you can easily remove them later.

[Soong Yu Juan]

sorry to hear that your peppermint went rogue, hope the damage was minimal.

anyway i nuked the affected rocks... sundried and boil them in water. Kinda sad to see the reddish rocks turn bone white/dirty olive. Dont think i can stock fish until next year. For the moment, letting the pod population build up as i planned my 1st fish to be a mandarin.

[zorden]

Its good to bake rocks. I sun dried mine to get rid of mantis and other unwanted stuff.

[Soong Yu Juan]

Just some updates before i clean up the algea on my glass walls and post pics...

I want to highly recommand Reefpods tisbe copepods. I wanted to build up my pods population before getting mandarin fishes and i happen to chance upon a new shipment of reefpods products brought in around mid dec. Before adding the tisbe pods, the existing pods were all the crawling types. But the tisbe are very active free swimming type... makes me so happy to see so much life in the water.

After adding a young green mandarin and a young spotted mandarin, the pair absolutely decimated the pod population within a few days. Lucky i managed to get them to eat frozen daphnia by polluting my tank with loads of frozen daphnia, brine and mysis everyday. Hope they catch on to the mysis soon. They have been alive for 3 weeks now and i see them shit alot of thick black stuff so i think they will live....

[ryanlio]

Cool.. did the tisbe pods multiply in your sump?

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[Soong Yu Juan]

Yup, i do see them in my sump. There is a course filter between sump and return pump to trap broken cheato. Hopefully some pods do get pumped back to the main tank...

[james72]

Where you get the reefpods tushes?

[james72]

Where you get the reefpods tisbe?

[Soong Yu Juan]

from one of the sponsors Aquafuana

[Soong Yu Juan]

some pics. Sorry, the tank is still very bare, i'm adding corals and fish at a rate of 1 per week...

mangroves from Boss Thairun, thanks bro

[MarcoVan]

nice lights. where did you get them bro?

[Soong Yu Juan]

bulbs from rapidled about 110? each once converted from usd.

fixtures from Ikea, 19.90 each.

sorry, something went wrong.. cannot upload any more pics.

[Admiraltian]

Stocking slowly is the right thing to do.