flower
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Okay, I'm planning to move my pair of Kuda seahorses into a 30g long. It's no where near tall enough for these big horses...it's just a temporary home until I can rid the 56g of bristle worms. I also have a blue strip pipefish, and my snails along with 5 peppermint shrimps.
I don't want to transfer bristle worms to the 30g long, but at the same time, I need to keep parameters stable.
I have 2 large sponges saturated with good bacteria in the 90g that I can use.
I have macroalgae, but I only want to use the stuff I can clearly tell if it has any worms in it. The sand and rock are super infested. I'm thinking I can remove the sand a scoop at a time, and lay it out thin to be sure I'm not transferring any worms...I have (a root branch looking thing) fake décor in the garage. it won't look natural, but at least it will give some surface for the good bacteria to build on, and the horses can hitch on it.
Questions:
I don't want to transfer bristle worms to the 30g long, but at the same time, I need to keep parameters stable.
I have 2 large sponges saturated with good bacteria in the 90g that I can use.
I have macroalgae, but I only want to use the stuff I can clearly tell if it has any worms in it. The sand and rock are super infested. I'm thinking I can remove the sand a scoop at a time, and lay it out thin to be sure I'm not transferring any worms...I have (a root branch looking thing) fake décor in the garage. it won't look natural, but at least it will give some surface for the good bacteria to build on, and the horses can hitch on it.
Questions:
- Do I still need to try and cycle the 30g before transferring the horses? Every day they remain in the 56g is dangerous for them. I just lost my oldest female to a sting, and I don't want a repeat.
- transferring Bristle worm eggs... is that a concern? How can I prevent that?
- I have rock that is infested, but has mushroom corals on them....what can I do? I have coral dip...will that help at all to get the worms to get out of the rock??? I can't dry out those rocks, at least they are small.