adding live rock/sand direct from the sea..

[uyenk]

set up recently(about 2month), 60gallon tank,Live rock/sand (Deep sand Bed 12cm), DIY Skimmer,Sump,refugium with Macro algae(i dont know the name, like a grass coloured brown to red).
FOWLR
and now its seem like a happy tank, but the problem is my LR is start covered by green algae (about 30%),

my plan is to change that (covered by green algae) LR with new one that i will collect

my Livestock:
- Blue Dot Puffer - Canthigaster epilamprus
- Clown Tang - Acanthurus lineatus
- Koran Angel - Pomacanthus semicirculatus
- Golden Coris Wrasse - Halichoeres chrysus
- Marble - HortWrasse - Halichoeres hortulanus
- Golden Stripe Soapfish Grouper - Grammistes sexlineatus
- Ocellaris Clownfish - Amphiprion ocellaris
- Goby - i dont know the species yet

- Tridacna crocea (the Blue Dot Puffer and Koran Angel is always bother this clam ???)
- Zebra Moray Eel - ??
- Octopus - Octopus bimaculatus
- Spiny Blue Lobster - Panulirus versicolor

- sun coral
- unknown zoantid
- unknown acropora (3) pink,green, and brown
- unknown brain coral

water parameter : UNKNOWN
water change about 30% per week, with salt water from the sea

All living and 'not' living is COLLECTED DIRECTLY from reef beach 30minutes away from my home, an when transporting, i use a large plastic bucket, all opened and place it inside a car cabin (not on baggage or pick-up/truck)

QUESTION????
1. is that necesary to replace the LR that covered by green algae with new fresh LR(since its free and a loooots of it)?
2. if i collect LR from the sea (about 30minutes in plastic bucket), i need to cure it first or not?
3. if i collect fish,anemones and coral from the sea, i to quarantine it first or not?

need help please..

:confused:

[pitt_prodigy]

1. Why? fish and different types of snails in the trade find it quite tasty. Any fish that grazes on algae would be very pleased (ex tangs, surgeonfish).

2. If you have fish in the tank....YES! Even if you dont have fish you must be very careful with what you bring into your system, are you diving for this rock? or is it locate near the surface? By collecting from the sea you never know what you might bring in... sometimes good hitchhikers, sometime bad toxins/pollutants.

3. Yes, quarantine... for much of the same reason as #2. Consider your tank a sterile area (clean, free of pollutants). If you just add them from the sea you risk adding an animal that could be sick which would pollute your tank, eventually killing other fish. Even when you buy a fish from a store or online breeder, you never add their water to yours for just that reason. Good luck and happy reefing.

[staticx]

From what i understand people that gather lr will usually go pretty far out to sea to get it. If you are gettiing it from close to shore it would be kinda like pulling live rock from your skimmer it would be full of sht some good most bad no need to cure it if you bring it home but would have to qt it and I would be really worried about what you would bring in with it but if your gonna do it make sure you qt it and I wouold cure it just to kill of most of what is gonna be with it

[Shagsbeard]

That livestock list would be overpopulated in a 200 gallon. Your octopus isn't going to work at all... you need a species only tank for him, and be quite experienced. An octopus will get out of his tank and turn the channel on the television if he doesn't like the show you're watching.

[Icehockey_whino]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8542318#post8542318 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Shagsbeard
That livestock list would be overpopulated in a 200 gallon. Your octopus isn't going to work at all... you need a species only tank for him, and be quite experienced. An octopus will get out of his tank and turn the channel on the television if he doesn't like the show you're watching.

Thats actually true. ;) ;) ;)