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    Thread: What would you do? Tank over ran with Majano, Aptasia, Xenia!!

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      What would you do? Tank over ran with Majano, Aptasia, Xenia!!

      Hello: Was hoping I could get some opinions... I have a beautiful 180 gallon reef and 1 of the 3 AI Hydra lights stopped working a while back and to be honest since I know nothing about them I just have let it go.... Now months later I've lost motivation and all the LR is completely overrun with Majanos, Aptasia, and ALOT of pulsing xenia. That and the lighting have killed off most of what corals we had and somewhere along the line we got asterina starfish as well. Insert crying faces here!!

      I don't want to call it quits. I want to somehow get my light working but in the meantime wanted to remove all the rock and FW dip it for days leaving the tank fish only temporarily!!! I have tried everything to remove them and they always come back..

      Any other thoughts?? I really don't know what else to do.

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      That way would work but by doing that you’d be killing all the beneficial bacteria in the rock, so at that point you might as well do a bleach or muriatic acid bath to really make sure you have killed everything from the rocks and they don’t come back. If the rocks are really overrun that may be the easiest way otherwise manual removal of xenia and large aiptasia, plus either filefish, nudis or peppermint shrimp or aiptasia x, joes juice or a majano wand.


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      Quote Originally Posted by oceanslide View Post
      That way would work but by doing that you’d be killing all the beneficial bacteria in the rock, so at that point you might as well do a bleach or muriatic acid bath to really make sure you have killed everything from the rocks and they don’t come back. If the rocks are really overrun that may be the easiest way otherwise manual removal of xenia and large aiptasia, plus either filefish, nudis or peppermint shrimp or aiptasia x, joes juice or a majano wand.


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      Muriatic acid? Will it still be reef safe afterwards? Got lots of that!

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      What would you do? Tank over ran with Majano, Aptasia, Xenia!!

      Quote Originally Posted by cagirly2006 View Post
      Muriatic acid? Will it still be reef safe afterwards? Got lots of that!

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      Great info here
      https://youtu.be/Ar9LWC6dFSY


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      Agree with oceanslide~ you’re asking for nutrient problems if you do just the fresh water- everything will die in the rock and then rot there. For the muriatic acid- dilute 10:1 with water or it will eat your rock (a lesson I learned the hard way) Then soak in bleach, then soak in prime (twice) all pref with a pump to circulate & you’ll have nice new dead rock. The process is long but, as the saying goes, nothing good in this hobby happens fast.

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      I had that in a small tank, I just removed the rocks and replaced them😂 now those old rocks are in my sump.


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