Biffy Finally Gets a Build Thread!

[Bifferwine]

Thanks! Those zoas are the same color as the coralline. So pretty.

 

[reeffreak]

Yeah,they are nice.I need some color but need to get rid of the aiptasia.I have one serious infestation like hundreds maybe thousands.I've already spent a $100 worth of peppermints(20 plus peppermints) and they haven't done sh!t.This was months ago.My next purchase is a Copperband because I am getting desperate or dare I say Berghias.

What does this have to do with your thread?Nothing,I needed to rant.

 

[Bifferwine]

That sucks Freak. I've had a few aiptasia, but I'm lucky enough that my peppermints have never let more than a couple at a time grow in my tank. And I haven't had any in so long, I can't even remember.

I've been using a product by Blue Life called Aiptasia Control to get rid of my majanos. They disentigrate on contact. It's so thick that it doesn't blow around the tank, it sticks exactly where you apply it. I put some on some brown zoas to see what effect they'd have, and the zoas were fine.

I even put some on my kenya trees last night. We'll see if they manage to pull through. If not, I may have found the miracle cure to the kenya weed plague!!

But it really does a number on the anemones. Maybe you could try that out.

 

[stagofdoom]

everything looks great!!!

I cant wait till I get a frogspawn/hammer. They are one of my favorite.

 

[Alexander]

not that it gets us back on track with your tank biff, but I also have used aptasia control. it works wonders! its just tough when you have a serious infestation to nail every last one. but it works so great. haven't used it in a long long time though. my peps rock the house!

 

[daugherty]

what do you use to target feed your corals.

 

[Bifferwine]

I use the same frozen food that I feed my fish (mysis, marine cuisine, emerald entree, krill, cyclopeeze, etc) but I take pieces and hand feed the corals with a pair of tweezers. For stuff like the ricordeas and frilly shrooms, I take a turkey baster full of the food and shoot it at them.

 

[daugherty]

thanks biff i have a pipet that i tried to use but the hole is to small. my other question is do you target any sps if so do you use the same frozen or a micro vert food.

 

[Bifferwine]

No, I don't target feed any SPS. Their polyps are too small to take hand feedings. SPS get their nutrition from the water column, not chunks of food that you would target feed.

 

[reeffreak]

If I had only a few than that product sounds good for aiptasia control.I have to many and too many in places I can't even reach.No way can I remove the rocks.

I broke down an bought a Copperband-wish me luck....I'll need it!

 

[Bifferwine]

Wow, good luck Freak!! I hope this fish is Yote's ol' Copper re-incarnated, the wonder butterfly.

 

[reeffreak]

DOA!

That sucks!

 

[Bifferwine]

So much for the wonder butterfly...

 

[reeffreak]

Yeah,the fish arrived dead at the LFS.Not sure if I want to order another one.Oh well,I bought a long-fin fairy wrasse and a pair of firefish so all was not lost.Now,I'll be searching online for berghias.

 

[RigoSharon]

cant wait to see in a month a pic of that hammer..its gonna be huge!!..good ones biff..muy bonitos

 

[Bifferwine]

Yeah Rigo, I've been feeding the hammer every night, and it already looks "fuller" and "puffier". The branches are pretty far apart from each other, so I want it to start branching more so that the spaces in between get filled up. It has great color to it.

 

[jhnrb]

Good Trade.

 

[Bifferwine]

Today NoobDeBiff and I decided to try and rid my tank completely of Kenya weed. We probably spent about an hour with his stainless steel surgical instruments pulling out all that crap. He estimates that we removed about 3 lbs of it. We got everything we could see. Inevitably, some rocks got bumped and moved, and I had to do some new aquascaping, which sucks. But now there is soooo much more space for new corals to go. I moved three of my nice SPS pieces that had been hiding in the back up to the front where the weeds used to be. NoobDeBiff is confident that we got it all. I said, "HA! Fat chance! In two weeks we'll be doing the same thing all over again!"

 

[natan]

I have just discovered this thread. We have very similar zoa issues and similar good results with these yellow polyps. I have lost a colony of green-blue zoo's which stayed closed. My new yellow polyps are, just like in your case, doing great.

 

[Bifferwine]

Hmmm, actually I don't have any yellow polyps. I've never had any. Where did you see those in my thread?