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    Bubble algae removal

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    I took my fish out of my DT for  8 weeks to get rid of ich.  After 8 weeks my DT was completely overrun with bubble algae.  My guess is that my 5" foxface was keeping it in check before.   However, he didnt go back into my main display because he had a problem with pruning my colt coral (which is now turned into about 20 colt corals thanks to him).  I put 2 emerald crabs in and they immediately started eating the bubble algae.  Its only been a week, but they have gotten about half of the tank done so far.  This is on a 110 deep dimension.

    ?? How Does Everyone Wash Their Hands Before ??

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    I'm kind of a wienie about germs so I rinse my hands with water, and slap on some latex gloves.  Not only does this allow me to keep my hands from getting stinky softy coral juice on them, it also allows me to use the ol (snap glove on)"bend over!" joke to my wife, which in turns gets me a disapproving head shake and an "your an idiot" remark.

    Chalice neeeewb questions

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    So I think I am ready to try some chalice', chalice's, chali'?  you know the pretty colored corals?   I've been doing a little research on them, that they like indirect lighting, and not too much flow...  And they have weird names like "purple frog butt", and "pink erkle twisty"...  Ok I made those names up but you get my point.

     

    Questions for you expert chalice keepers, whats a good hardy chalice to start out with under 250w of T5, or a d120 LED in my frag tank?

    :) Who Else Is Excited for FragFest? :)

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    X2 of the 5 gallon buckets from Home Depot. Most reefers have handfuls laying about.

    but I am not like most reefers, I like to use things like popcorn buckets, and kool aid pitchers,  you know... basically any household item that would annoy the heck out of my wife  :P

    Hyposa-what-idy?

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    Congrats!!!!!

     

    Wow has 6 weeks really already gone by...time does truly fly as it seems I was just laughing at the first post just a couple of weeks ago....

    ya I made the first post at around the end of week 3... 

    Hyposa-what-idy?

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    Weeks 5 and 6:  Where the heck did that fish go?

    Week 5 was more of the same, just doing water changes and making sure the fish looked happy and healthy.  Finally, when week 6 came around it was time to start going back up to 1.025.  I did about .20 to .30 increases a day for 4 days, and got the salinity up to 1.022ish.  From there, at the end of week 6 I drip acclimated them as if they were new fish to the DT.  All of the fish made the move without a hitch, except one…  For some reason, I seem to have lost a Chromis.  I know that I netted him, and (attempted) to drop him into the DT, but I haven’t seen him since.  He could have bolted strait into the waiting arms of crab or something, or I guess it is possible that I missed and dropped him into an overflow, which in turn would eventually turn him into skimmer paste.  Or maybe I should check my net when I get home…  There might be a dried carcass just waiting there for me.

     

    All the other fish seem to be doing well after a few days in their big tanks.  I’ll keep you informed on whether or not this whole (how did my wife put it?)  Hyposa-what-idy?  Worked or not. 

     

    Below are my lessons learned:

     

    1.  Hypo-salinity is not for the ADHD inflicted
    2. Do not stick all of your live stock into a container that is too small for them, like I did…  It makes you have to do WAY too much maintenance to keep the toxins out of the water.
    3. Research fish that have a special diet like wrasses who eat pods, or fish that require zooplankton before hand, see if there is a history of them not doing well in hypo.  An alternate QT may be better for them like the tank swapping method.
    4. Be prepared for low PH, the low salinity makes it hard to maintain a high PH.  Have baking soda (bake it on a cookie sheet at 350 for 30 minutes) ready to go.
    5. Make sure you have a refractometer, the swing arm hydrometer and float hydros are garbage.

    2 purple tangs...

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    I hate going in that store anymore. They just keep ordering these huge tangs - I can't imagine them living very long, even if someone does rescue them. It's heartbreaking. I even argued with Helen once because she flat out denied anything was wrong with a baby with HLLE. His face was half gone!

     

    I could go on a huge rant about this store - and as much as we feel they should be saved, what would be best is getting them to stop selling these guys. But I don't know how :why:  I can't even stop myself from going in there.

     yes and sadly their "answer" to ick is to throw a UV sterilizer in the tank as if that will do any good...

    Hyposa-what-idy?

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    never admit the fish die...get another one before cindy Lou who notices! That's what I do lol...works on spouses too...new fish...not replacement parents ha ha

     

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    I was thinking of doing that...  They are a fairly cheap fish anyways.   

    Hyposa-what-idy?

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    Weeks 3 and 4:  I hated that fish anyways…

    So the hypo has been going well I guess, I’ve got the water change down to a science now.  I know that I just need to change 3 full popcorn buckets (the ones from target that are apparently also used for popcorn) full of water changes, two caps of amquel plus and 1 spoon full of baking soda in a 1 gal drip container.  I do this every morning before work.  For a while all of the fish seemed like they were doing well.  The only one I was worrying about was the sixline wrasse, I don’t remember where I read it, but I believe I’ve read that they do not do well in hypo, so I was keeping an eye on him.  He was eating just fine up until the 3rd week of hypo, and all of a sudden things went south for him really quickly.  He just stopped eating and laid around on the bottom of the tank.  My guess is that he didn’t have any more pods to eat because you can’t have live rock in hypo treatment.  In hindsight I guess I should have researched a different food for him?  I don’t know…  But like I always tell myself after I lose a fish.  I hated that fish anyways… sniff sniff.  It’s really going to suck when my daughter looks for her favorite fish and looks up at me with those big brown eyes, and says “where’s Pinky Pie?”    “She went to the big ocean in the sky sweetheart… the big ocean in the sky…”

     

    Anyone else have trouble with wrasses in hypo?

     

    starting next week!  The slow climb up to 1.025! 

    ID?!

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    Upon first look of the first image, I just thought "sponge". As mine look like that and are the same color, but after I saw the second photo, I realized this thing is moving! awesome find!  thanks for sharing.

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