- Location
- Elmhurst, NY
Unfortunately, I went on a 2 week business trip that turned into 6 weeks. My wife and kids maintained the tanks with simple feeding (probably too much), topping off of water and controlling lights.
The tragedies:
1) My green torch is gone.
2) I have pulsing xenia growing everywhere. It covered a bunch of SPS, started killing a purple Monti (actually attached and started growing on it). I am trying to remove it but I am loosing this battle. Looking for a Pencil Urchin or any Sea Urchin that will trim it for me. I dont care if it eats all of it.
3) GSP is also outgrowing its rock and grew over a small hammer. It is extending into a rock that I have my Pallys. I dont know how to control it. Some of it I can cut but how to remove what is attached to rocks?
4) Lost lots of my cleanup squad. Hermits, Snails, Sallys, all mostly gone. Should I replace them now?
5) Lost a green tip BTA but watermelon BTA looks very healthy.
6) Loosing a neon green tip / yellow Birdsnest. Has patches of white throughout the skeleton but my Pink Birdsnest is healthy and doesnt look effected. I hope it recovers.
7) All my caps have new growth and look great. No problems there.
8) Have small patches of nuisance algae (Cyano, Hair) but it doesn't look to be spreading and the Fox Face seems to be picking at lots of the green. The Cyanobacteria seems to be also receding.
I have been doing weekly water changes and my protein skimmer is on overdrive, cleaning the water.
I dont want to start over but I need to start controlling some of the problems above.
Any and all advice welcomed.
Thanks,
Hector
The tragedies:
1) My green torch is gone.
2) I have pulsing xenia growing everywhere. It covered a bunch of SPS, started killing a purple Monti (actually attached and started growing on it). I am trying to remove it but I am loosing this battle. Looking for a Pencil Urchin or any Sea Urchin that will trim it for me. I dont care if it eats all of it.
3) GSP is also outgrowing its rock and grew over a small hammer. It is extending into a rock that I have my Pallys. I dont know how to control it. Some of it I can cut but how to remove what is attached to rocks?
4) Lost lots of my cleanup squad. Hermits, Snails, Sallys, all mostly gone. Should I replace them now?
5) Lost a green tip BTA but watermelon BTA looks very healthy.
6) Loosing a neon green tip / yellow Birdsnest. Has patches of white throughout the skeleton but my Pink Birdsnest is healthy and doesnt look effected. I hope it recovers.
7) All my caps have new growth and look great. No problems there.
8) Have small patches of nuisance algae (Cyano, Hair) but it doesn't look to be spreading and the Fox Face seems to be picking at lots of the green. The Cyanobacteria seems to be also receding.
I have been doing weekly water changes and my protein skimmer is on overdrive, cleaning the water.
I dont want to start over but I need to start controlling some of the problems above.
Any and all advice welcomed.
Thanks,
Hector