hard coral frags -help me before I kill them!

[JimD]

Theres really is no wrong way to do it. Gluing offers security in placement, not gluing offers the ability to move it if it appears unhappy, bust it in half and try it both ways! lol

[Mr Cob]

haha!! Now that would be protecting your investment.

[txav8r]

HAhahaha! I like that answer!

[Europhyllia]

Oh Rob, check this out and be dazzled!!! Here's a picture of the condition of the rocks and the frags taken today:


I think my tank has cleaned up very nicely since you picked up Moby. ( alot of it was actually bryopsis, not hair algae so that was easy to get rid of)

There are still little isolated tufts of hair algae but I think overall I am pretty much 90% algae free...plenty of space to glue stuff if glueing is the way to go.
The remaining algae has been rapidly declining and with the algae under control I felt ready to add some new stuff .

[txav8r]

That looks great!
Rob, you mislead us!! Shame shame...

Karin, usually byropsis is the hard one to get rid of not hair algae.

[Mr Cob]

Nice, now you need a small tang and a lawnmower blenny to help keep it under control... and lots of macro in your refugium.

It looks nice.

Moby is doing awesome... She quickly became the ruler of the tank and helps keep the peace. She even knocked some sense into Ray's crazy clown and she has been broken too. : )

[Europhyllia]

That looks great!
Rob, you mislead us!! Shame shame...

Karin, usually byropsis is the hard one to get rid of not hair algae.

Thank You!

I found an article on RC about raising magnesium levels from the regular 1350 to 1650 and that wiped out my bryopsis in 3 days!
(only side effect was that my massive pod population twindled with the bryopsis gone)
Then I did have hair algae (replacing the bryopsis lol) and I have a book by Julian Sprung that recommends raising alkalinity and adding herbivores. Alkalinity over 8 dkh helps precipitate phosphate ( I feed all day ;) ). And really the corals needed higher alk than what I had anyway.
I also added a few mexican red legs. The hermits and the higher alkalinity took care of most of the hair algae.
I am pretty amazed myself how quickly everything came together

[Europhyllia]

Oh good Rob. I am glad to hear she's a good match for your tank. My clowns left the corner by the overflow box the moment I got her out of the tank and returned to their home in the hairy mushroom so they're happy she's with you! LOL

No more fish additions for me. Only slow moving critters from now on. I learned that from chasing a tang through 160 pounds of very intricate rock scaping for 6 hours...