Ace25's 75G Build Thread

Well, you can try it your way but be ready for loss of fish/coral if the repair takes longer than you anticipate. Or do it the hard way and be more certain everything survives. I have found that repairs that should only take a minute or 2 can turn into a project that takes a lot longer, an hour or more.
 
Hey man, it's ultimately your tank and you are free to do it however you wish! I know you want someone to agree with your idea of leaving them in the sand while you repair... but if it were me, I would cave in and take the tank down for the sake of my fish. But I can easily say that sitting at my end of the computer, not being in your situation.
 
That is what I take from it. ;)

Kind of like when you go somewhere and there is a sign that says "Enter at your own risk".
 
Good news today.. no other corals seem affected, so I hope it was just the stuck SCWD that blew the hell out of the acro and killed it and the mushroom rubbed the duncan to the point it killed some heads.. crossing my fingers that was the the problem anyway.

Side note.. man did I pull an idiot move last night.. forgot to turn off my ATO, which if it was just an ATO wouldn't be that big of a deal, but it is an ATO with KALK water in it.. so I drained my tank for my 40G waterchange and then noticed my ATO got empty.. ummm.. oops. Shouldn't be plugged in.. so my pH got up to 10.0 for about a minute as I pumped new water back in.. then after running for about 3 minutes the pH dropped down to 8.4... scared the crap out of me. When I noticed I forgot to unplug the ATO I looked at my pH probe and it only read 8.6 in the sump. I though, whew.. ATO must have been almost out. Nope, as I was draining and the tank was still running the ATO was filling up the sump and going back into the tank as quick as I was draining it. Luckly my ATO is only about 4 gallons. Still.. lesson learned, crisis avoided.. and luckly nothing bad happened with the pH spike.
 
Ok, just for you Amph.. quick and dirty pics of my tank that I am not proud of at the moment. Only had 1 minute before MH light turned off to snap these. I removed a few rocks and moved my pocillopora to the back left. It is white on the bottom because that was where it was in the rocks before not getting light. There are still polyps on the white part and when I have made frags of it they do color up within a few weeks.

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I don't know what you're ashamed of. Looks great without the softies. Take care of that rogue mushroom, sit back, and let it grow out (getting a sizable Duncanopsammia colony there, lol). I would try cutting the main portion of the mushroom off and then using a much smaller amount of paste to kill the remainders. I think it should work out fine if you use small amounts on the remaining tissue. At least that way you don't have to nix the entire animal.
 
Ya, duncan had just reached 40 heads last week.. then 3 of the babies were killed off by those killer green striped mushroom "weeds" I have. I will have to get another picture of the colony out of the rocks, it is the size of a baseball, and the base is round like a baseball with a stem, but the top looks like a pomegranite cut in 1.2 with the duncan heads coming out. Looks cool but sucks for me because there is no way I can frag it. As you can see, I still have some mushrooms to get out. I took out quite a few with the exacto, but it was making such a mess in the tank cutting them out I was worried about fouling the water to much. There are also a few straggler zoas that were ripped off the main rocks and left behind on other rocks. I figured the zoas are fine from all the pics I have seen with acros and zoas growing around the base without issue... but I just wanted to get the majority out anyway. The mushrooms are now my new nemesis.. it used to be bubble algae.
 
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