YHSublime November 25, 2023 Share November 25, 2023 It’s coming along! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieReefer84 November 30, 2023 Author Share November 30, 2023 Growth is starting to come as well: Untitled by mteske1, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieReefer84 December 5, 2023 Author Share December 5, 2023 TSA Bali Blue Slimer progress: Untitled by mteske1, on Flickr Untitled by mteske1, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieReefer84 December 21, 2023 Author Share December 21, 2023 My Ph was only capping at about 8.0 during the day on this tank. I ran the skimmer line outside, and that resulted in about 8.2. I hooked up the outside airline through a C02 scrubber and I am now achieving a high Ph of 8.4 and low is only around 8.2/8.3. Untitled by mteske1, on Flickr Hoping the corals really take off now. I have another order of monitpora coming from Top Shelf in early January. Here is my fav coral and one of my fav fish: Untitled by mteske1, on Flickr I also was fighting nitrates at 0.0 on hannah checker despite phosphate reading 0.04 on hannah checker. I have started slowly dosing neonitro and also dosing aminos like acropower. I have them around 5 now which is good for me. I have added a foxface as well as a royal gramma. Very happy with how the tank is doing. Corraline algae is really taking off now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieReefer84 January 25 Author Share January 25 new corals: Untitled by mteske1, on Flickr Untitled by mteske1, on Flickr Untitled by mteske1, on Flickr Untitled by mteske1, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieReefer84 January 25 Author Share January 25 JF superman stylo Reeftech starburst monti Bubblegum digi Oregon tort TSA appleberry monti TSA kaboom monti Sunset monti Mystic sunset monti Jedi mind trick monti you can see I like montipora... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieReefer84 January 29 Author Share January 29 All fish died except my tang. Zero symptoms. Overnight deaths. 3 one week overnight. Then 4 overnight a couple days ago. Crappy update to make. Assuming velvet that acted so fast there were no outward displays like spots or fuzz or anything. Water parameters are all literally perfect. Sending water for an icp to confirm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquastudent January 29 Share January 29 That's terrible! I'm sorry that happened. Hope you're able to figure out what it was. Were there any new arrivals other than the corals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime January 29 Share January 29 hate to hear it. I thought you were QT'ing everything? Interested to see what the reason is/was, if you find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieReefer84 January 29 Author Share January 29 4 hours ago, YHSublime said: hate to hear it. I thought you were QT'ing everything? Interested to see what the reason is/was, if you find it. I didn't QT clean up crew, which was a couple orders. The snails in one order the urchins in another. And corals were just dipped, not QT. Who knows. I am sending water for ICP. I saw zero symptons on fish, so whatever it was acted fast. The tang is still alive and eating fine. Picking glass algae, eating all foods. Swimming fine. I do plan to catch and QT tang and leave tank empty of fish for 6+ weeks. I am NOT adding anymore corals or cleaners. Funny thing is, corals doing well. Urchins are fine. All the "sensitive" things are ok. I even have UV, albeit a 25w. Based on some research it may be slightly undersized, but should be helping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM January 30 Share January 30 Good grief. This is too bad. I guess it must be velvet, but no outward signs on the fish is really troubling. Maybe someone who knows more about fish disease possibilities can chime in here. I'd think the tang would be first to go, not the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieReefer84 January 30 Author Share January 30 8 hours ago, AlanM said: Good grief. This is too bad. I guess it must be velvet, but no outward signs on the fish is really troubling. Maybe someone who knows more about fish disease possibilities can chime in here. I'd think the tang would be first to go, not the others. Yea. Not a single dead fish had a single sign of velvet. I just tested for stray voltage and highest rating with everything running was 19.5 which Google tells me is fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howaboutme January 31 Share January 31 Sorry to hear! Something similar happened to me a few years ago. Although one can't know for sure but I attributed the issue from a hitchhiker disease on a snail from a LFS that doesn't separate fish from inverts. Because of that, I generally don't buy inverts unless I know they are from a fishless system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkiboy January 31 Share January 31 20 minutes ago, howaboutme said: Sorry to hear! Something similar happened to me a few years ago. Although one can't know for sure but I attributed the issue from a hitchhiker disease on a snail from a LFS that doesn't separate fish from inverts. Because of that, I generally don't buy inverts unless I know they are from a fishless system. And even inverts from a fishless system is not safe taking aerosol contamination/spread into account. Even without fish, how long have the inverts been quarantined from fish? I get calls/emails/text like this once a week, at least. It is unfortunate but does allow an opportunity to learn a valuable lesson that most of us all have had to learn at some point and hopefully only once. Even with all that being said, most of the shops doing invert quarantine, when one asks the right questions and digs, are not running their protocols properly for their intended and advertised goal/mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpeguero January 31 Share January 31 Really sorry to hear this. Yeah, learned this the hard way years ago. Now, I quarantine all inverts for 76 days (some things shorter, based on guidance on humble fish’s site). QT is not as far from the sump as I’d like, but I’m not so worried about aerosol spread because my exhaust fan from the room is right above the QT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieReefer84 January 31 Author Share January 31 I checked stray voltage. It was 19.5 a the max and usually around 6. I read on google 20-30 is ok, and won't hurt anything. With this in mind I am assuming it was something super fast acting like Velvet, and somehow there were no symptoms. Most of the fish died overnight. I did notice one night one fish breathing heavy on the bottom of the tank, but again no spots or anything out of the ordinary to see on the fish even with a flashlight. It acted to fast for me to really do anything at all. I do have a QT tank and meds and a copper checker. My snails are now breeding in the tank. They are dwaf ceriths and there must be millions of them. My plan is to not add anything else other than new fish once this tank goes fishless for at least 6 weeks. Maybe once I do the fishless period and know my tank is clean I can start selling off some of these dwarf ceriths. The start out the size of a pentip and max out around 1/2" In the meantime the corals are looking wonderful, so at least I got that going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime January 31 Share January 31 Corals are looking nice! i had a similar issue almost a decade ago, and pulled all surviving fish through a QT. The corals were wonderful to watch and thrive, now I run a 10 gallon with 1 small goby with a ton of softies for fun. My pod population also boomed, and snails started actually hatching. This could be great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieReefer84 April 10 Author Share April 10 On 1/31/2024 at 9:59 AM, YHSublime said: Corals are looking nice! i had a similar issue almost a decade ago, and pulled all surviving fish through a QT. The corals were wonderful to watch and thrive, now I run a 10 gallon with 1 small goby with a ton of softies for fun. My pod population also boomed, and snails started actually hatching. This could be great! I have millions of cerith snails now. The mini ones. They are reproducing like crazy. Of course I have bubble algae and some aptasia now. I added some emerald crabs and peppermint shrimp today hoping they will take care of that. The one fish that made it through (my tang) is still kicking just fine. I never pulled the fish to QT it, and I am very hesitant to add any new fish at this time. I really should pull the tang into QT for 12 weeks or whatever before adding more fish, but I have very little desire to go through all that effort right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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