jimlin

I would first work on the sump/plumbing/skimmer, lights, flow.

man, I need a fish closet.

I own an Apex Jr and it is still sitting in the box. I can not figure out how to program it and right now still prefer to use timers.

I would just keep what you got.

what is your nitrate reading?

I would add 2 long pieces of wood (front and back) which will prevent the stand from moving side to side. I would secure the wood with heavy duty corner brackets. something similar to this. http://mobile.dlawlesshardware.com/corner-bracket-2--heavy-duty.html?utm_source=googlepepla&utm_medium=adwords&id=19600381160&utm_content=pla&gclid=CMvkkNvs17wCFZRsfgodNUUApw

That looks scary. Is the baseboard made of real wood?

10 gallon sump was a little small eh.

great pics. sorry about the coral banded

+1 Nothing will change if the owner does not know what is going on. One can not fix something if one does not know it is broken. I give them another chance. A good LFS is hard to come by.

After dipping mines, they are all closed. only thing that died from the dips are pods. I noticed a bunch of white dots on the zoas and the rocks.

hmmm, guess I will dip mines too to see if that helps

I think the high mortality rate is from sick fish collected. A store here in Hawaii which ships fish to the mainland collect a good portion of their livestock. Everytime I go in there, I see tanks filled with sick fish and I did not see any type of quarantine system. They dont have the time to make sure fish are healthy before they are shipped. My fish got velvet recently after a 50% water change using natural Hawaiian sea water and if left untreated all my fish except the gobies would have died so I can see the high death rates in the hobby. It makes me wonder what the fish mortality rate is in the ocean from diseases.

I seen several fishermen here who caught several 12inch+ tangs and said they are good eatins. I was rather surprised that people actually ate tangs.

any updates?

Thanks. I have been feeding the fishes less than usual, but adding vitamin to their diet. The hippo tang's head is really coloring up now, but the body is still a blue green color and the dusty looking white spots are pretty much gone. Not sure if I should feed the tangs nori while they are in the hospital tank. Not sure if I should add some live rocks in there so that I dont have to change the water as often. So far the hospital tank remained relatively clean with the filter floss in one of the IN-TANK media baskets. I think this tank will be used as an permanent QT/hospital tank. Only thing I am worried about that tank is that there is no way for me to cool the tank during summer and my house does not have AC. Gobie is still alive and very active in the main tank. I still can not catch that darn fish since it can hide in any of the holes on the live rocks. If I was to wait for it to die in the display, I may be waiting for a long time. I also took some algae growing in the fuge and put it in the display to populate the display with pods. Most of the algae was shredded by the MP-10s, but hopefully the pods survived. Shrimps are continuing to molt in the tank, but what are they eating? I only feed that tank once a week and only put in about 4-5 flakes of food. Most of my zoas have died for some reason. I checked to see if there were any insects eating the zoas (nudi or spider), but did not see any. All other corals are doing ok. I am not sure if it is the lights, but am looking at upgrading the lights to either a IT2080 or Photon 48. Right now I am leaning towards the Photon 48 and planned to add a clear screen on top of the tank.

fuge?

is one 2080 enough to cover the 75?

when i had a flame, it would sleep in the rocks, i would def add more hiding spots. it will reduce stress for the fish as well. your hippo is really colorful. only time mines was that colorful was when i added selcon and garlic to their food.

nice work

Wow, looks awesome. Wonder he will turn into a super male.

what do you mean "go too fast" ? A slow injection? Don't kill them all at one time? Blast the aiptasia at point blank, does that mean you don't use a needle to inject it directly into the aiptasia, but rather just shoot the solution at it?

Thanks guys. Think the hippo tang is doing a lot better. So I am using Coppersafe and used the amount indicated on the directions for the past several days, but noticed the white dots were still all over the tang and although the tang started eating, tang was still not acting like itself. White dots were still there and the first 2 days it looked like the tang was recovering, but last night it looked like the tang was going to die because I found it against the wall on the drain of the AIO tank which may mean it did not have the strength to swim away. I tested the water to see what the level of copper was and it was less than 1 PPM. I pretty much doubled the dose last night and today the tang is doing much better. The left eye which was all white had started to clear up. The white dusts which were all over its body is slowly going away. Now I am just waiting for the black dots to go away. One of the 3 fish I first purchased for this tank, I really hope it makes it through. The Display tank, looks like there was an explosion of creatures in there now that majority of the fishes are gone. 2 different species of shrimps are dumping eggs weekly. Pods which I never noticed have taken over the refugium and have grown to the size of a small hermit crab. Snails and starfish have also multiplied tremendously for some reason after my last water change. Not sure what triggered this, but I have stopped dosing vodka and turned off the chiller. This outbreak has really got me to reconsider using natural sea water. One just never know what is really in the water these days.