I have always wanted a succesfull reef tank. And I feel i have achieved that to a degree but at a price. Being very skeptical of my own skills I started off like most people do, I bought corals that are easy to keep... yellow polyps, green metalic mushrooms, xenia, and zoanthids. As I was succesfully with these I bought more challenging and interesting corals... Acropra, torch coral, green open brain.
This is where my problem comes in, as the years past I've been so succesful that my yellow polyps have become a plaque along with my xenia and mushrooms.
The xenia I manually removed to the point of almost no existence and though I occasionaly see a xenia now and then it is easy to keep in check.
The mushrooms took over 1/4 of my tank but I feel these too can be manually removed and controlled like the xenia.
The yellow polyps on the other hand are covering about 60% of my LR to the point where they are harming my Acropora and other corals. There are way to many to remove by hand and although the torch coral has been placed in the tank to keep them at bay, they detach and float around the tank till they can root again.
It has gotten to the point where I don't even want to look at my tank anymore.
Possible solution I can think of are:
1. Remove infected LR and replace (costly)
2. Remove LR and place in rubbermaid bins with heaters and ph. With no light for 2 weeks ( I think this would work)
3. Add a natural predator for yellw polyps (is there such a thing?)
Anyone have any other suggestions or comments on some of my ideas?
Tank is
75G rr w/29g sump mag9.5 for return
80lbs LR
150lbs LS
440w VHO
Sal 1.024 Temp 78F Amm 0 NO2 0 NO3 ? Alk 3.2mg/l Calc ? (ran out)
This is where my problem comes in, as the years past I've been so succesful that my yellow polyps have become a plaque along with my xenia and mushrooms.
The xenia I manually removed to the point of almost no existence and though I occasionaly see a xenia now and then it is easy to keep in check.
The mushrooms took over 1/4 of my tank but I feel these too can be manually removed and controlled like the xenia.
The yellow polyps on the other hand are covering about 60% of my LR to the point where they are harming my Acropora and other corals. There are way to many to remove by hand and although the torch coral has been placed in the tank to keep them at bay, they detach and float around the tank till they can root again.
It has gotten to the point where I don't even want to look at my tank anymore.
Possible solution I can think of are:
1. Remove infected LR and replace (costly)
2. Remove LR and place in rubbermaid bins with heaters and ph. With no light for 2 weeks ( I think this would work)
3. Add a natural predator for yellw polyps (is there such a thing?)
Anyone have any other suggestions or comments on some of my ideas?
Tank is
75G rr w/29g sump mag9.5 for return
80lbs LR
150lbs LS
440w VHO
Sal 1.024 Temp 78F Amm 0 NO2 0 NO3 ? Alk 3.2mg/l Calc ? (ran out)
