Back Again! updated tank shot after a year

[Gietz]

Well I'm back, after about a year and a half of being to busy to post on this site Ive decided to post a picture back up of my progress.
55 gallon, 35 sump
Ive got around 10 fish and numerous LSP

I am having 3 problems though;

I cant get rid of aptasia - Ive used Aptasia X 3 times and after a week it just comes back
tones of Bristle Worms - any help would be appreciated
Open brain Coral - water par. are fine and its in the sand bed but just wont open... do they like less light??

Any help would be great

Cheers

Brent

 

[Poseidon]

wrasse will grab the bristle worms, six lines are good, but most wrasse will do the trick
brain- if your params and lighting are good, watch for nipping, sometimes they do it sneakily...
aptisia is always a battle, some natural tips are peppermint shrimp, copperband butterfly, or b. nudibranches
with ap X, try turning all pumps of so the water is still, then let the X sit on the aptisia for a good 10-15 min, that should do the trick if there is just one or two.

 

[Gietz]

THX!!! i have a flasher wrasse but he doesnt touch them... and could it be the bristle worms under the brain thats bothering it?

 

[reeffreak]

Bristle worms should rarely become an issue in a reef tank. If I were to guess its  not them bothering the coral. I  would agree with everything Brando has stated above. Would mostly be the bigger species of wrasse that would eat any critters in the tank. IMO the flasher is to small to pick on shrimp or critters in the tank. They would pick at pods which are very very small

 

[curiousphil]

The open brains do like less light and also low flow.  They have a very sharp skeleton that cuts into the flesh when under too much flow, and when under high lighting they bleach easily.  Know someobn who had one near the top of a tank with an 8 bulb T5 fixture and it bleached from a gorgeous green to a sickly white and was clinging to the skeleton within a month or two or adding the lights.  I took it to my tank and put it on the sandbed, it recovered its colours after a month or so.  Ultimately met its demise due to my high flow.

 

[Gietz]

well I have 4 T5 HO bulbs that sit just about 4 inch off the top of the water. Ill pick it up, move it and get back to you!

As for the Bristle worms its bad....... I can see them all the time... maybe a PVC trap is in order?  Can I put a sixline in with a Flasher cause I thought a 55 should only house 1 wrasse max???

 

[Petercar (RIP Dec 2017)]

bristle worms are good.  ...  just have to be carefull when picking up coral or rocks off the sand bed ..as they have pricks that can embed in yur skin....ask bigshow about that

 

[Poseidon]

well I have 4 T5 HO bulbs that sit just about 4 inch off the top of the water. Ill pick it up, move it and get back to you!

As for the Bristle worms its bad....... I can see them all the time... maybe a PVC trap is in order?  Can I put a sixline in with a Flasher cause I thought a 55 should only house 1 wrasse max???

Bristle worms are completely reef safe, other than for you hand they are fine for your tank...
And are a big help in cleaning up debris and detritus...
They can be unsightly, and I'm sure if you put a cup with a frozen shrimp in it they would swarm it and you could pull a whole bunch out a time... May help cull the population

 

[Gietz]

yeah I'm going to make a trap this weekend, I agree they are good, its just my tank is tank a over load and when you can see them crawling around during the day it bothers me  :?