FarmerTy Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 No.... Jim! No more SSRs! [emoji30] In the spirit of even more laziness for my new year's resolutions, I took in my old 20# cylinder and swapped it out while I was swapping the 5# one. Might as well supersize my cylinder to match my tank while I'm at it. That's a 75-gallon sump for size reference. Please ignore the jumble of wires. That's still on my to do list. [emoji16] The best part is now I have a 5# tank ready and filled to hold me over when the 20# needs to be swapped... which at this rate is 2 years. [emoji41] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 It's that time of year... Probes calibrated... check! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manny Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 No.... Jim! No more SSRs! [emoji30] In the spirit of even more laziness for my new year's resolutions, I took in my old 20# cylinder and swapped it out while I was swapping the 5# one. Might as well supersize my cylinder to match my tank while I'm at it. That's a 75-gallon sump for size reference. Please ignore the jumble of wires. That's still on my to do list. [emoji16] The best part is now I have a 5# tank ready and filled to hold me over when the 20# needs to be swapped... which at this rate is 2 years. [emoji41] Your Sump Is The Size Of My Display Tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckyuv Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 We want a pic of your yellow lantana and the Ty's echinada! Or at least I do... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 They aren't the most photogenic right now. I ended up doing two Bayer dips over the break on all my acros because I saw what I thought were bitemarks. The dips didn't yield any dead flatworms though so maybe it's just my paranoia. You would be paranoid too if you had that many acros! [emoji40] The dips were well timed anyways as I have pretty much collected the stock of acros I have been wanting and just letting everything grow out now. I just reglued everything back on the rocks yesterday so there is a general ticked off theme right now amongst my acros. Here's the best I could do. I'll shoot some good ones in about a month when everything is back to normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckyuv Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Do you have any wrasses or fish that eat bugs? I was going to go back and look but your build thread is 59 pages long lol. The corals are looking good! Your lantana grew in a random shape! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 Yeah, I have a leopard and cleaner wrasse. I guess the two mandarin gobies might count as well. Yeah, I never go backwards in this build thread. You could waste a weeks worth of time doing that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 That lantana is really odd. First off, it's growing in the amorphous, random shape that all digitatas grow in... kind of a free for all of branches... but then it really hasn't grown much since I picked it up. The base color turned a mustard yellow which is good but only the polyps on top or at the base have turned blue... the rest of the polyps are brown. Odd little thing... maybe I need to move it to another spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckyuv Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Mine seemed to sit idle for about a month, then started to plate out at the bottom, then I got a new tank so we'll see what it does now I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 Well mine has done squat so I'm thinking it's not a fan of 700 par. [emoji15] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 So when I introduced the flame angel, it had started a mini plight of Ich in my tank. Typically I see this and everyone recovers within a week or so. My concern is usually minimal for this but this time around, the powder blue seems to have developed a secondary bacterial infection along with it that is causing it to lose a portion of its tail and you can see redness in the tail as well. I'm a big proponent of leaving fish alone with ich but the secondary infection does warrant me to remove the powder blue for treatment. I'm on a mission to catch him out. I have Tim's (wizard) old fish trap and drilled it on the far end away from the trap door so that it was easier to put food in the trap to bait it. Here's how it went. The trap had been placed in there for 1 day prior and this is the 2nd day of it being in there and the first day I baited it. Happy fishing! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemoon Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 hmm this should be interesting, i never get them first try! He looks audaciously suspicious of the trap too. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 He's very wary... that's for sure. It's for your own good buddy... just jump in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Maybe he needs different music? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckyuv Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Funny how pretty much every other fish went in there lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 Naturally that's how it works ckyuv! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Not what I was hoping to catch tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 At one point I had 4 of the 5 tangs in the trap at once. If there was any need to trap 4 tangs at once... I might have to redeploy that trap. Unfortunately, the one tang that wasn't in there was the powder blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+brian.srock Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 This is the perfect reason to start a bigger QT system going and as you catch fish you move them over. If he's the last one then a quick drain will easily catch him then a quick return of the water then switch everyone back over. Or you can stop worrying about it since he's alluded you so far and he'll probably get better on his own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 I'm only pulling him out because he's got a secondary bacterial infection that is rotting his rear tail fin. The rest are healing nicely as usual but the powder blue will meet his maker if I don't get him out of there to treat. The quick drain... when you're talking 215-gallons... there's no quick about it. I'll need two 100-gallon rubbermaid tubs stat and a giant pump... wait... I already have one 100-gallon rubbermaid and a giant pump.... hmmm... I'll keep that as Plan C. Plan A) Fish trap Plan B) Lights on in the middle of the night and grab him before his eyes adjust Plan C) Quick drain, catch, and fill 215-gallons of water Plan D) JCAB is coming over for the ole' quick ninja nori net grab at the water surface Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+brian.srock Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 You just need a 100 words or less essay to get the 100g tub from Tim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 Just to update my build thread, I'm adding my marine velvet treatment discussion: http://www.austinreefclub.com/topic/33229-marine-velvet-treatment/ All remaining fish have taken well to the chloroquine phosphate treatment and are symptom free so far. Two fish, the midas blenny and chocolate tang, broke out with a secondary bacterial infection during the CP treatment, and are being treated for bacteria as well with tetracycline. CP reduces immune system response in people (it's an antimalarial drug) so I'd imagine it would do the same in the fishes. Casualties so far are my powder blue tang and two mandarin gobies... with a chromis dying but his death may be unrelated as he was not symptomatic of marine velvet. I have a dartfish still left in the tank that has still eluded me to this point. The clock starts on the tank being fallow when he is removed. After much thought and an ARC poll, I think I will be adding some fish stock to the QT tank to replace some lost fish. The goal is to to use the already iniatiated QT protocol on the current livestock and run new livestock conccurently in the treatment as well. I figured, might as well do it while I'm going through the trouble to treat my current livestock. Goal of treatment is a freshwater dip for flukes, the CP to treat ich/marine velvet, and prazipro for intestinal worms. Tetracycline would be applied if any fish show bacterial signs of infection. Thoughts of adding a regal angel have entertained my mind but realistically, I may just replace my lost fish and add two new fairy wrasses and call it a day for my fish stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 If I had a larger tank I would seriously consider a pair of hawaiian flame wrasses. Think some folks on ARC have been ordering directly from a collector ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 The sea cucumber decided to entertain me to distract me from the fishless tank I have. The anemone has gotten huge now that it's two roommates aren't smacking it with their fins all day long. The zoas have never looked fuller in a fishless tank! KimP had asked if you can dose CP and tetracycline together. It worked fine for the two days of treatment for the midas blenny but the next two days after that looked like this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 If I had a larger tank I would seriously consider a pair of hawaiian flame wrasses. Think some folks on ARC have been ordering directly from a collector ...It's been very tempting... especially now that there is a second chance on the order! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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