The Power of Rock

I've been haveing major issues with cyano and much of my tank looked like this (or worse)




I finally got around to adding a bit of Pukani pre-cured live rock and in a few short weeks it now looks like this.




The added rock is front and center (and weighs about 12 lbs), as I've not had the time to rescape. Plus I'm sure my pistol shrimp and goby won't be happy with me for distrubing/ dismantling thier home, which is a pile of smaller rocks behind the new piece.

Sorry for the cell phone pics, my camera died.

Now if the darn peppermint would do his job and eat all the aiptasia.

 

If the aptasia are small don't waste any time and smother them in super or crazy glue asap. That way they can't spread and they can't move and will die soon after. I've done it this way and it has been a few months and not a single one has shoed its ugly face again just a suggestion that I have had wonderful results with that i wanted to share pepermint shrimp will only eat small to medium sized aptasia anyway so if they are large size they won't even touch them. good luck.

 

cyano bacteria is a fast spreading nuisance algae.

 

Hate to tell you this but what cyanobacteria happens to be is in the second half of it's name "bacteria".

 

cyanobacteria

I am going through this at the moment and my arrow crab is eating it. Not that you want one of those, but an interesting turn. He's like a little harvester of the red stuff.