Too Little Too Late
The bubble algae came back. There was no way for me to get all of it out of my porous LR. I even added an emerald crab but IF he ate any of the RBA he could not keep up. Over the next several months whenever I did a WC I would manually remove a rock or two and scrub the bubbles off. But I knew there was no defeating it.
This weekend I started a new plan of attack
A plan I had been thinking of for nearly a year.
I emptied the nano and put all inhabitants (rock and all) in the 10g QT tank. I will scrub out the nano today and all Pumps and powerheads are being replace by new ones. Tomorrow I have a 15g Package coming from Tampa Bay Saltwater.
Live Rock - Tampa Bay Saltwater Aquacultured Live Rock
My 55g tank is a TBS tank too. I would rebuild the nano with new TBS LR as well as some of the smaller TBS LR from the 55g. Some of the new LR would go into the 55g
I am geting both Part 1 and Part 2 at the same time since I am splitting the rock up between the two tanks and using some of my establish mature from the big tank in the nano. All Critters and goodies (sponges, gorgonians, and corals) will go into the 55g tank for a week or two then they will get moved
into the nano.
Last night while cleaning out the old sand I came across this critter.
I used to have a tone of brittle worms. So many that I started culling the babies. This guy is just too big for my taste and will not be going back into a tank.