londonloco
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The tank will be fine in the nursery until your son gets out of his crib and into a bed. If your interested, I have a white IM16 in storage downstairs, PM me if your interested.
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Love your getting back into the hobby. Missed your posts! Good luck with the new tank!
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That is unique! Why did he stop making them? I really want one! lol
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Set up looks awesome! Love to hear more about that overflow cover...and maybe a better pic, please?
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So are you going to keep this tank when you finished the upgrade to DB80g?
No, I'm going to sell the tank and stand. I'm almost done with the upgrade, hoping to finish it this weekend. Didn't do a build thread, just didn't have the time.....
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That pec makes me want to set up a tank again.
DO IT!
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Wow it's been over a year, tank is chugging along. Traded away my two clowns and the Mystery Wrasse, bought 2 Wyoming Whites (I've wanted these clowns since they first came out at 6K a pair!) and a McCoskers Wrasse from Marcos and a Coral Beauty from Divers Den, kept the original Cardinalfish, added a few more corals, finally got an Elegance to live. I have also for the past 4 months been fighting a major battle with algae, bubble, hair and byropsis. Vibrant and Fluconazole have almost got it all gone! It's been almost 4 years since I've completed a build, fw or sw, decided it was time, I'm upgrading this reef to a DP80g. I plan on starting an upgrade thread (can you say steel stand....so excited!). Of course it started out as I'll just move all the current equip over, everyone knows that is not what realllllyyyy happens!
Below is a crappy iphone pic of the current reef.
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Well, I have to say this weekend this treatment turned the corner, the HA on my sand bed is much lighter in color, is not as thick as it was before my last wc and I believe is receding. I should do a WC on Weds or Thurs this week. I think I should do another dose of the fluconazole but hesitate as I'm concerned about going yet another 2 weeks with my ps turned down to really not working. Thoughts?
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So it worked on rock?
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By the time I did the fluconazole treatment, I had already raised my Mg and had been using Vibrant for a few months, there is no HA or Byropsis on my rock. The algae I have left is on the sand bed.
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It's been over a week since I treated my 60g, it doesn't seem to be working on the sand bed.
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I'll be servicing the tank that had HA today. It's been 2 weeks since Fluconazole treatment.
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Ok, treatment completed. Carbon out, PS dialed wayyyyyyy down, PS cup off (and cleaned, yuk!), GFO left on, meds dissolved in tank water and poured directly in front of gyre 130, tank cloudy. I'll report back in a few. Thanks all!
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If you follow the treatment per the article, you definitely turn down the skimmer so it doesn't skim out the meds. It's impossible to make the skimmer pull out nutrients but not the meds...
dial it waaaaay down.
Thanks Zy.......
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The largest capsule size is 200 mg so it's good for 10 gallons at 20 mg/gallon (or about 5 mg/liter). That's 8 200-mg capsules for 80 gallons.
TY so much Tom, just wanted someone to check math.
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The guys on r2r use 5mg per liter. The person in this thread is doing 5mg per gallon and has had success.
I'm going to do 5mg per liter for my first dose. I know carbon out for 2 weeks, but what about my PS.....those who dosed here, did you leave your PS on? I'm reading R2R and some left it off, some left it on to remove nutrients as the algae died.
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18.75mg/gallon?
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Utoh, that's not good
80 gallons is 302 liters, 5mg per liter would make it 1510mgs/200 mgs per capsule or 7.5 capsules....Where am I wrong? I def don't want to overdose my tank!
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During the holidays, almost every year, my tanks take a hit as I skip a wc here AND there. I started using Vibrant on both my FW and SW tanks. Vibrant for FW took care of the algae in my FW tanks w/in a few weeks, I'm down to 1mL per 10 gallons every two weeks in the FW tanks, have to say, Vibrant works for my tanks. However, in my reef, byropsis and bubble algae got way out of hand on both the rock and on the sand bed. I raised my Mg, which took care of the rock byropsis, but it didn't touch what I thought was byropsis on my sand bed. I started Vibrant for reef tanks on 3/11, dosing 1mL per 10 gallons 2x a week, the bubble algae is slowly fading, but my sandbed is still a mess. During a wc a few weeks ago on my reef tank, I noticed the sand bed algae might be some sort of hair algae, hence, the interest in this fluconazole treatment for hair algae. I ordered some capsules of fluconazole, it should be here tomorrow. I'm going to dose 7.5 capsules (80 gallon water volume) and see what happens (would someone check my math please). I'll post results here.
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Ive decicided to use this stuff to try to kill off some hair algae since it did it in the bryopsis tank.
Yesterday was first day of treatment.
Interested in the outcome.........
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Dave is getting DNA results on what the algae is. I reduced my light intensity and will just run actinics for a while. My best guess for what is happening is that I started with totally dead rock that had some nutrient in it to decay. I put it in the tank and lighted the heck out of it. There must have been a minute amount of this algae, but since the rock was almost 100% dead it was able to establish a monoculture with absolutely no competition for resources and just run straight over the rocks even possibly out-competing the nitrifying bacteria for ammonia. The algae is still growing and lush. It looks pretty, actually.
I'm going to try to get some truly live sand from florida or something to add some diversity. I've added some pods from Aquarium Depot and a couple of rocks from my established tank, but expect them to take forever to "seed" the tank. In the meantime I'll run fewer lights and keep skimming. I got some Vibrant from a club member to test out and have put in two doses because it's supposedly just a strain of bacteria with a little vinegar. Possibly snake oil, but apparently not actually harmful. So far it isn't doing doodle-squat.
Hey Alan.....yesterday I ordered the freshwater version of Vibrant for two of my fw tanks after seeing the R2R thread, but am hesitant to order the reef version....do you have any thoughts on Vibrant and it's affect on your tank?
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Wow Tom, just "popped" onto WAMAS and saw this thread. Wishing you a speedy recovery!
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No clams in a 6 gallon. It won't survive. Plus your tank is too new. And once you upgrade I would wait at least 6 months b4 even trying one to make sure the tank is stable
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I've seen some nice looking tanks with white backgrounds, which also makes the tank pop. Otherwise, I'm a fan of black (or even better, foam!).
Most of my tanks (sw and fw) are off white or light grey.....just my preference.
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Wow, so sorry. I only order my fish from Marcos as he Q all fish before selling. It does take some time from order to door, but it's well worth the wait.
Loco's 59g rimless tank build
in Dedicated Tank (Build) Forum
New tank has been set up since 5/28, transfer went great, tank looks great. Holding my breathe......
Originally thinking of adding 4-5 more fish, but everything is going so good, now thinking just 2, a algae blenny and a mimic tang. Meh, we'll see, I'm in no rush!