LadAShark

Angels are well known to be model citizens before suddenly getting a taste for lps/zoas/gorgonians. Other corals should be fine, I hear.

I don't know if this is still a problem, but this sounds like something that can be temporarily solved with a turf scrubber. If you can use it to outcompete the bryopsis, you might have a chance to remove the bryopsis for good. If you had insane growth in your scrubber, that would be a sign that some nutrients are out of control. Have you checked your iron levels? Those being high could also cause algae booms.

Sooo, I recently purchased a 120 gallon fully set up tank, with several square feet of acros, montiporas, and a bunch of zoas and softies. While dismantling I noticed a broken piece of montipora hiding under rock with what looked like brown slime. I didn't think too much into it. 5 days later everything except some softies and acros are melted and gone. 2 more days later and I wasn't able to save softies. The acros have highly bleached, and will too probably die soon. As evidenced by the post date, I've been losing a lot of sleep over this. At the moment the plan is to cure all the live rock, bake the sand, attempt to save the acros (with perhaps some iodine dips), and start anew. I have the acros out and in a tank with heating and circulation, but not gonna go after some coral baby sitters because I am worried that this plague will spread to other people's tanks. Pretty darn sad now... :( Will post picks of sadness and death if any of you are interested D:

Noooooo! If I had seen this I would have gotten it asap! I'm in need of replacements after newly bought tank experienced all the corals melting.

I will make sure to look around for the algae. Also, thanks a bunch for all the support! As you can see, I've been losing a lot of sleep over this.

I was keeping them in the original water of the tank I got. I brought them all home, kept them with their original lighting, albeit in a somewhat cooler environment, but in stagnant water (big mistakes I know, but expected to set it back up in 2 days, not a week!). Looking back on it, I realized that this wasn't just rot. When we were dismantling the guys tank I noticed a small piece of broken montipora that we threw away had brown jelly stuff on it. I accidentally facilitated a disease outbreak by stressing out the corals. I've been reading and pretty much read that brown jelly is the fastest disease you can lose a tank full of coral to. At this rate, I'm gonna start anew. I will cure the guy's live rock, hope some of the acropora survives (99% chance it won't), bake all of the sand at 550 degrees, and start anew. If I can speed up the cycling well enough I might be able to make it to the April 15 meeting to pick up some nice corals to restart the tank. I'm thinking sps and softies only as I intend to keep some angels. I guess this stuff happens every now and then :( Oh, and on the other hand, I'm gonna be in need of some macroalgae, if anybody has some they can share. If not I'll just have to buy some.

I'm wondering if montiporas covered in a layer of slimy rot still have a chance of surviving? I highly doubt it, but, would be nice if there was a way to save them. I am hoping at least my softies and the acroporas survive, but I seriously am losing hope. @Zoolander I have fragged as much as I can, but it's sort of hazy what's too far gona to frag and attempt to rescue.

Purchased a full setup 120 gallon tank with montiporas, acroporas, several softies, and some chalices and zoas on Monday. Was planning to get it setup by Wednesday, annnd proceeded to come down with the flu. It's Monday and the tank is still not set up. Have hopefully saved some acroporas and softies, but definitely lost all my montiporas (several square feet of them!) and all my chalices and zoas (which just melted away!). Now I'm ultra sad. Didn't think I was going to need someone to look after my corals, now I've got the remaining survivors safe and sound but, as mentioned, super sad because lost most if not potentially everything. Will post some depressing pictures of dying corals later. Just wanted to rant a little.

As beautiful as they are, I have an emperor angel coming in soon, and I've heard they love the taste of Zoas.

If the fish won't stop picking on them I can always take them off of your hands ;P

Got any pictures?

Would love to help but currently don't have any set up tanks. In the process of setting back up a 120 (will be done today or tomorrow, but needs some time to settle all the death), and another 2 120s in next few weeks.

Wouldn't it be interesting to try to build a refrigerated unit connected to a feeder that would allow us to feed cooled food to our tanks while away? That way if you have to feed, say, shrimp, you won't need to worry about it spoiling.

Yeah, I bet. There's a lot of inefficient technologies out there that are being replaced quickly. Older lightbulbs used to waste 95% of the electricity that flowed through them as heat, and now we're getting to the point where we're making lights many times more efficient.

Unlikely that you'll be able to keep them, as they are planktonic, but you can always try. It would be interesting to try, but there is no established procedure or technique to breeding them. You'll have to do a lot of research about this crab and figure out whether you can sort of invent a makeshift environment for them.

Is it worth getting while it's on sale? Because I honestly don't want to drop cash on something that's just hyped up. What do yoy guys think? Have any of you gotten a cerebra yet?

Looked into them. Unfortunately they don't have glass up to the dimensions I need. I need 120", they max at 96"

No, I unfortunately have not seen the shark tanks with live plants in them. That sounds fascinating! I have even considered growing mangroves but the only thing holding me back is how they take salt and magnesium out of the water. You could keep a papua new guinea epaulette in a much smaller tank than a 400. In fact 250? Maybe even 200 if your dimensions are good. And if you're going to keep a single one, get a male. They're significantly smaller! And as for the reef tank, it's still in consideration.

Yeah, I see.Hmm. Unfortunately unless you buy in volume which is over 2500.00 your forced to buy through a glass store like Nw glass or similar. For example a 2'x2'x1/2" non tempered is 125.00 multiply that by 5 just for easy math and you can buy a low iron glass tank for that or cheaper. I am and have been looking into buying in volume, but I have not found any places that I absolutely want to buy from yet.

Oh, lol. Hope you didn't get caught at work haha. I am aware no one store will work best. I am looking and looking and looking, and I've found that everything is feasible, except for glass, which seems to be so hard to find at a reasonable price for some reason. Google sure isn't finding me more than a few glass providers in the USA, all of whom charge at the MINIMUM $32 a squre foot for low iron glass 3/4" I know as a matter of fact that it's impossible that builers would not pay such amounts of money for glass. There is absolutely no way. I am sure there are cheaper providers of glass, but where are they? I do not know. Meanwhile, ordering from China through alibaba, the average price is $20-40 a square METER which means it's effectively 10 times less per square foot, at 2-4 dollars a square foot, but the shady business practices in China make it extremely hard for buyers to traverse. Not to mention the fact that most sellers set a minimum order limit of 100 square meters of glass.

I'm interested in building a large tank 10' long ~4' wide 3.5' deep. I'm trying to get large glass panes, and, simply put, starphire glass isn't satisfactory as it's somewhat blatantly overpriced. Do any of you know of glass pane providers that I might be able to contact?

If look is all you're going for, look into gluing/attaching sand under and outside the aquarium.

If matt's not gonna take it, I'd be interested in that tank! I've been tryinng to get a sizable tank for a while, but lady luck hasn't been on my side.

I'm still working on my setup. I intend to post it as soon as I get all the materials I need. After that the build should take less than a week to complete.In terms of building a shark tank for catsharks/carpetsharks, important thing to remember as a guideline is width=1.5 times shark length, length=3ish times sharks length, height=shark's length. Well, for the most part. You could get away with 2 times as long and just a little wider than it is long, though you'd need to know what you're doing. Filtration is the harder part. The dimensions of my tank are going to be 10' long, 3.5' tall, 3.5'-4' wide (this last one is being considered).

Great whites can swim around 100 miles a day, and stress out really badly if there's anything blocking them from doing so. It has been attempted many, many times. We can successfully keep even a whale shark, but the great white shark just doesn't take well to captivity. They get irritable if they are enclosed, regardless of the size of the enclosure, and they will proceed to attack tankmates, after which they will quickly begin to die. You could call it a really REALLY bad case of claustrophobia. Funny thing is I'm in the process of planning and setting up a shark tank. I have another post here about sharing shark/ray vitamins, but it seems that I might be the only person who will be keeping sharks in this community.