Last week I pulled the UV to clean it off. The biggest downside I have found with the Green Killing Machine is that the housing is a algae super magnet. Add to that the fact that the Hector's Goby never ventures above mid-tank and the Foxface never goes near the back of the tank coupled with the placement of the UV means that the only maintenance it gets, other than the occasional Trochus, is from me.
I have been having a minor outbreak of a red hair algae and a green hair algae. Neither are especially bad but the red hair algae is difficult to remove, so out came the UV; but I decided to wait and clean it when I was more in the mood for it.
I noticed a few bubble algae on the base of the Green Hammer and hair algae on the stems of the Peach Hammer and the Kryptonite Trumpet. There was also some small clumps of hair algae here and there around the tank.
I also have had a few Aiptasia. The first one was on the stalk of the Purple-Rim Trumpet about three months ago. I pulled the plug and cleaned its stalk. It grew back in about a week so I pulled it again and scrapped the stalk. Since then I have been watching closely for its siblings that I just knew had to be in the tank somewhere. Sibling One was found on the plug of the Peach Hammer a few weeks ago. I popped the hammer off of its plug and glued it to a Little Rox and replanted it. Thursday night I found Sibling Two on the back side of a rock near the Pink Fiji.
So the upshot is that yesterday became a fix-some-tank-issues day. I cleaned and reinstalled the UV. I tweezed out a bunch of algae clumps. I mixed up some AquaStick and plugged the Aiptasia hole. I pulled the Kryptonite Trumpet and cleaned the stalk of algae. I was a little concerned about the Kryptonite as it has a very short stalk and the way it was growing I felt I had to get it off the plug soon. Since I already had AquaStick mixed up, the time was now. I couldn't really hold the stalk to get it into the epoxy so I put more than a normal amount of CA on it. Hopefully it will hold.
The Kryptonite is currently splitting again so it looks kind of weird. The Purple-Rim is also splitting and since it has started splitting it has lost most of its purple coloration. I hope it returns but it may also be getting too much light.
I have two more corals I need to mount pretty soon as they have overgrown their plugs.
The Purple Stylo
And the Tubbs Stellata
Since they have been in the lagoon the WWC Grafted Monti and its offspring Pinhead have changed color. First they both went from green to yellow-orange. Now they are more yellowish-pink with a green and yellow rim starting to form.
The only thing in the tank that is not actively growing is the Pink Bird Nest. I think it may be a plastic replica because it looks exactly like the day I put it in the tank.
So here is the tank as of this morning.
Have a good day.
I have been having a minor outbreak of a red hair algae and a green hair algae. Neither are especially bad but the red hair algae is difficult to remove, so out came the UV; but I decided to wait and clean it when I was more in the mood for it.
I noticed a few bubble algae on the base of the Green Hammer and hair algae on the stems of the Peach Hammer and the Kryptonite Trumpet. There was also some small clumps of hair algae here and there around the tank.
I also have had a few Aiptasia. The first one was on the stalk of the Purple-Rim Trumpet about three months ago. I pulled the plug and cleaned its stalk. It grew back in about a week so I pulled it again and scrapped the stalk. Since then I have been watching closely for its siblings that I just knew had to be in the tank somewhere. Sibling One was found on the plug of the Peach Hammer a few weeks ago. I popped the hammer off of its plug and glued it to a Little Rox and replanted it. Thursday night I found Sibling Two on the back side of a rock near the Pink Fiji.
So the upshot is that yesterday became a fix-some-tank-issues day. I cleaned and reinstalled the UV. I tweezed out a bunch of algae clumps. I mixed up some AquaStick and plugged the Aiptasia hole. I pulled the Kryptonite Trumpet and cleaned the stalk of algae. I was a little concerned about the Kryptonite as it has a very short stalk and the way it was growing I felt I had to get it off the plug soon. Since I already had AquaStick mixed up, the time was now. I couldn't really hold the stalk to get it into the epoxy so I put more than a normal amount of CA on it. Hopefully it will hold.
The Kryptonite is currently splitting again so it looks kind of weird. The Purple-Rim is also splitting and since it has started splitting it has lost most of its purple coloration. I hope it returns but it may also be getting too much light.
I have two more corals I need to mount pretty soon as they have overgrown their plugs.
The Purple Stylo
And the Tubbs Stellata
Since they have been in the lagoon the WWC Grafted Monti and its offspring Pinhead have changed color. First they both went from green to yellow-orange. Now they are more yellowish-pink with a green and yellow rim starting to form.
The only thing in the tank that is not actively growing is the Pink Bird Nest. I think it may be a plastic replica because it looks exactly like the day I put it in the tank.
So here is the tank as of this morning.
Have a good day.