Sunday, November 22, 2009

Prazipro Rocks My World

The prazipro worked like a hot damn. After 5 days I ran carbon and did a large waterchange. I did see a bit of algae after the two treatments (erythro and prazipro) which likely wasn't the smartest running those pretty much back to back but what can you do? Anyway, I figure it was the erythro that was the culprit, it probly killed off some of the good bacteria and the tank cycled a little. No biggie, couple more waterchanges and we're good to go.

The raccoon butterfly is working out awesomely. He has either eaten most of the majanos or really put the hate on them and they're cowering in fear. I can still see a few but only when the actinics are on and their hidden tentacles glow green. Thats fine with me, they're probably not getting enough light/food and eventually they'll whither away anyways. The half dozen aiptasia that I had are also gone as well as that hideous patch of zoanthids/hydroid-type thingys that were on the left hand side of the tank. They really were kind of fugly and were spreading like wildfire. Now of course it makes me wonder, once all that stuff is gone, what will the butterfly move on to next? I'm thinking my blastos as two of them are decidedly unhappy and haven't been very poofy lately. I'm changing out the carbon more often and running polyfilters just in case sometihng needs to be cleared out of the water.

I've actually been doing a lot of work getting the big tank prepped lately. We put a hole in the wall and built the stand and I'm actually filling the tank as we speak. I'm hoping to get the plumbing finished tomorrow (gotta get the sump drilled) and get some rock in it later on this week. Should be pretty awesome, here are some pics:










1 comment:

chris said...

Glad the prazi worked for you and the build is coming along nice:)