hurt
Active Member
No it does not involve an oven.
Over the past 9 months or so I have had a constant battle with bryopsis in my tank. No matter what I did it would not go away. I tried Vodka, Prodibio, large water changes, phosban, and I fed my tank only once a week. Nothing worked. The whole time this was going on my NO3 and PO4 were both at 0. My chaeto has been dying during this whole process. So I know there are no nutrients in the water, at least by the time my water gets to my fuge. I now have no chaeto at all. My sps used to grow very quickly, but recently growth has been extremely limited. I was so frustrated and did not know what to do, then I came across a thread on the other large message board which has finally given me hope.
Quick background on my tank. I've had my tank for 6 years now, and I bought it off a guy who previously had it set up for 2 years. So my LR and LS have been in a closed environment for about 8 years now. I remember when I set it up, all the crap that came out out the LS and the rotten egg smell. So the sandbed has been saturated for at least 6 years now.
So I've accepted the fact that my LR and LS are both saturated with nutrients and are giving off nutrients back into my tank. That is the reason the bryopsis is growing. It's taking the nutrients up from the LR before it has a chance to enter into the water column.
Now on to cooking LR. This process does not kill LR, rather it recharges as if it were brand new by cleaning the detritus out of it that has accumlated over the years. This is done by putting the LR in a dark environment which leads to a bacterial driven environment instead of an algae driven environment which the LR is normally in. This forces the bacteria to clean out the LR as it is their only source of food. You will be amazed at how much detritus can accumulate in LR over the years, clogging it and chocking it.
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Over the past 9 months or so I have had a constant battle with bryopsis in my tank. No matter what I did it would not go away. I tried Vodka, Prodibio, large water changes, phosban, and I fed my tank only once a week. Nothing worked. The whole time this was going on my NO3 and PO4 were both at 0. My chaeto has been dying during this whole process. So I know there are no nutrients in the water, at least by the time my water gets to my fuge. I now have no chaeto at all. My sps used to grow very quickly, but recently growth has been extremely limited. I was so frustrated and did not know what to do, then I came across a thread on the other large message board which has finally given me hope.
Quick background on my tank. I've had my tank for 6 years now, and I bought it off a guy who previously had it set up for 2 years. So my LR and LS have been in a closed environment for about 8 years now. I remember when I set it up, all the crap that came out out the LS and the rotten egg smell. So the sandbed has been saturated for at least 6 years now.
So I've accepted the fact that my LR and LS are both saturated with nutrients and are giving off nutrients back into my tank. That is the reason the bryopsis is growing. It's taking the nutrients up from the LR before it has a chance to enter into the water column.
Now on to cooking LR. This process does not kill LR, rather it recharges as if it were brand new by cleaning the detritus out of it that has accumlated over the years. This is done by putting the LR in a dark environment which leads to a bacterial driven environment instead of an algae driven environment which the LR is normally in. This forces the bacteria to clean out the LR as it is their only source of food. You will be amazed at how much detritus can accumulate in LR over the years, clogging it and chocking it.
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