new additions

[Art13]

My two newest additions, also my first time with an elegance, and i'm hoping the color will come back in nicely on the favia, looks like he has a bit of shipping stress.

http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz175/artsteffen13/IMG_4222_zps2gyqpflj.jpg (http://s825.photobucket.com/user/artsteffen13/media/IMG_4222_zps2gyqpflj.jpg.html)

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[Art13]

never mind the green stuff, i'm currently in a wining battle with bryopsis, i'm hoping to win that in the next week or two.

[Dkuhlmann]

Good luck with that. So do you think it was a good idea to add anything new with your current problem?

[Art13]

I got them in a trade, and the treatment for it won't effect them at all. While i could have waited another few weeks i wanted to jump on the trade, lol. My params are stable, sps, softies and clam in the tank all doing great with good growth, i didn't see the harm.

[Dkuhlmann]

The only harm I was thinking was with the treatment that you need to do might affect a new addition. Always hard to pass up a good trade :thumbsup:

Good luck and please post the outcome.

[Art13]

Yeah, I got these two and 5 sps frags, I couldn't help myself. The only thing the treatment is effecting is the algae and maybe some pods.

[hypostatic]

That.... is a lot of algae lol. If your elegance is anything like mine, it shouldn't care much about it. I'd worry about algae growth on the favia though.

Anyway, if you parameters are stable they should be fine once they settle in. I'd recommend running some GFO for the algae though.

[Art13]

Well, i won't get into it too much as i have another thread going on it sort of with the treatment, but it looked like a carpet due to neglect, newborn took up my time. Last three months i've been working on stability, put gfo and carbon on the system, carbon dosing, and manual removal. This stuff doesn't flinch with clean water, just kept coming back, and while that might look like a lot, thats the worst rock in the tank behind the elegance. The tank is about 10 times better than it used to be. The algae is slowly turning white and dying off, its actually a very good feeling.

[Tweaked]

Free on trade or not, subjecting these animals to the treatments and putting them in a tank which is neglected isn't that cool. Just my opinions.

[Art13]

Free on trade or not, subjecting these animals to the treatments and putting them in a tank which is neglected isn't that cool. Just my opinions.

It hasn't been neglected for over 3 months now, i've been doing weekly water changes and daily maintenance along with daily water checks and have been keeping up very well with it. It is very well taken care of at this point. When it was neglected, i was still keeping up with feeding the tank, the water changes were what fell behind to about once a month or two, but at that point i sold off the coral in the tank instead of letting them go in there. I wouldn't put coral back in if i was still neglecting the tank.

[Art13]

Just to give you an idea of how this has been coming along, the first shot is after three months of running carbon, gfo, weekly manual removal and water changes. The picture was taken about 2 weeks after my last removal. Second one is roughly 5 days into peroxide spot treatment and manual removal, third one is 8 days in with a water change and manual removal. It is not coming back and growing like it was before. I used to see significant growth from it weekly, now nothing. I read heavily on the subject and wouldn't subject anything in the tank to a treatment that knowingly would damage anything in the tank. The only notes i've seen were that it can be harsh on the cleaner shrimp in there which is why i chose spot treatment rather than full tank treatment, i can do a smaller dose in a concentrated area. All inhabitants are still alright and well, shrimp is just fine.

http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz175/artsteffen13/IMG_4173_zps9znaa1gx.jpg (http://s825.photobucket.com/user/artsteffen13/media/IMG_4173_zps9znaa1gx.jpg.html)

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[Dkuhlmann]

Looking MUCH better :thumbsup:

[hypostatic]

Well, as the tank is looking better, the elegance is loooks like it's doing the opposite as the pictures progress.

[Art13]

Fed him not too long before the picture, he seemed to stay smaller after that for the rest of the day.

[d-man]

Looks like hA, not bryopsis.
Keep up the good work

[Art13]

looks somewhat like it now that the fern part i guess you would call it fell apart, i thought it was GHA at first as well, but was confirmed by a few others to be bryopsis.