Siptang's 72g bow front tank.

sorry to hear about that siptang

 

Hi, guess what I saw today on my Facebook page....your other site has your tank up on their page. Congrats!

 

Thank you very much skyfire.

Oldfishkeeper thank you for the kind words.. I will be stronger from this.

 

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Found out the reason for the acro loss.

AEFW...

Counter Attack begins tonight!

 

tank is gorgeous! you couldn't have lost that much

 

You have no idea.... T.T it's just i have it so packed it doesn't seem much but i lost alot.

 

Alright... did few things.

Re plummed my return pump to new uv sterlizer, killing everything that is going up to my display tank.

Manually removing all the eggs and all the worms daily. So far, death has decreased dramatically.

Also new additions to the tank.


My side job... will my desk be ever clean? Lol

 

Sounds like you've got as handle on it. Good luck.
Pretty new additions too.

 

Thanks skyfire. Doing what I can.. I'm very attached to my frags lol.

 

So I started the major counter attack against AEFW.

I'm writing this down here so that I can keep it as journal as well to help others who may go through this.

Besides the common and usual methods of

* Prestine water condition for the acros and other livestocks.

* Manual removal of worms and the eggs. (Outside the tank ofcourse using hands, tweezers, and pumps).

More calculated and measured attacks.

* Re plumbing my return so it goes straight to UV before a drop of water hits my display tank.

* Finding natural predators for the AEFWs.

1. Camel Shrimps
2. Hawaiian 4 line wrasse
3. Yellow corris wrasse
4. Velvet nudibranch


I'm going to create a contraption box in my sump dedicated to camel shrimps.

I will buy 3 of them and put a timer on then insert acro for 10 mins for the shrimps to manually remove the worms and the egg sacks that I can't reach.

Why on a timer? Because if the food source runs out, they will eat the tissue of the SPS.

Ordered four line and yellow corris for the display.
Key to success with them is to find the small specimen.

Velvet nudi, I ruled out due to the low success rate of keeping them alive.

* Supplement your tank to keep your SPS in optimal condition so it will be able to produce more mucus to defend themselves.

I will be using Julian's Acropower to supplement Amino acid as well as trace elements.

I will keep you guys updated.