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Jimbo662 Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 I noticed this cool effect the other day when the light started ramping down. Just saw it again and grabbed the camera. They're about 12% and almost all blues. https://youtu.be/gHqS45DGWks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 They turn all kinds of fun colors... The whiteout looks cool too if yours ever does that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 They turn all kinds of fun colors... The whiteout looks cool too if yours ever does that. Whiteout? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Gets really pale white, color looks flushed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christyef Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 He looks like he shld have a football team name Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 Gets really pale white, color looks flushed. After the lights dimmed even more I think I saw what you were talking about. His body was a very pale gray looking but the tail, dorsal and anal fins where a very cool reddish color. He looks like he shld have a football team name Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Hmmm...how about the Round Rock Reefers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 That's it! Maybe I should call it gray out instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 Well...I went to another ARC meeting. There's always evidence in my tank!!!! All acclimated, dipped and settling in! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KimP Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 You picked up some nice pieces! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan H Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Some of those look familiar... Looking good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted May 22, 2016 Author Share Posted May 22, 2016 Yep, hating life right now. Ich in the tank again so a friend came over to help me catch all the fish. It actually went better than I thought. Got the rock back in and stacked nicely. We decided to go grab some food. Something told me to check my phone just as I was finished eating. For some reason the chime for text messages and email wasn't working. 20 min earlier apex told me there was water somewhere it shouldn't have been!!!!! I immediately logged into fusion and turned everything off just in case. Luckily I was only about 5 min away from home. On a good note, I now know my stand is water proof. Yep, there was a 1/2" of water in it. Sump overflowed!!!!! I hadn't even thought of that happening after stirring everything up in the tank. You know I'll be checking all of my programming tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Ugh! Good thing you have that waterproof stand tho 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offroadodge Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 That stinks, hopefully u caught it early. Sent from my XT1058 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted May 23, 2016 Author Share Posted May 23, 2016 I think so. I got my achillies out a week ago Friday and he's already clear of any signs. I've determined that blue green chromis and blue gudgeon gobies are immune. :-) They went through the same stuff in Dec. and never showed a single sign of it. I heard someone at the meeting on Saturday mention it might be possible to bring ich in on a frag. My guess is that's what may have happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sascha D. Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Sorry to hear about that bud. I hope everything goes okay for you. Ich is very hard to prevent over the long term. Any drop of water, frag or fish could carry it in one of it's forms. It's like that movie Jurassic Park, "Nature always finds a way." I thought about trying to prevent Ich in my new tank, but concluded that I didn't want so many tanks to maintain. There might be an easier way, but this was my line of thinking. You would have to quarantine all of your fish and treat them for parasites. In another tank you would have to quarantine all of your corals for 73 days in a fish free system. Right there you're at a minimum of two QT and one DT. If you put a frag into your coral QT on day 42 then you have to start the timer over again because the new frag could have eggs on it. That might mean running a second coral QT unless you're only buying corals once a quarter. Lastly, you would need to dip all of your equipment or have a different set for each QT. Using the same net or siphon might transfer the parasite from one tank to another. I've heard of some people using UV sterilizers, but I'm not clear on whether that eliminates Ich from the tank or just reduces the adult population. The sterilizer only kills free floating organisms, but the cysts are attached to rocks and such. I guess if you limit the adults then you'll limit the eggs, but I don't see how it would completely eliminate it unless the tank is small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 Ok, need some help here...I've been keeping alk, cal and mag pretty steady and the few pieces I have right now seemed happy. My testing regimen went out the window when I hurt my knee on the 25th. Here are the last readings: May24 Alk - 8.2 Cal - 440 Mag - 1345 June 5 Alk - 8.6 Cal - 400 Mag - 1320 Sal - 1.024 June 9 Alk - 8.9 Cal - 415 Mag - 1290 June 11 Alk - 9.1 Cal - 400 Mag - 1350 Sal - 1.025 (bringing it up on purpose to this reading) I use a Hanna checker to test phosphorus and that always reads 3-4 or about .01 phosphates. I've been tweaking the dosage trying to get back to stable again. I've got a plating milli (i think) that started showing signs of bleaching on the tips and thought maybe I moved it up too high so I moved it back down to the sand and 24 hrs later it was totally white. Another milli started looking bleached but it's stopped and shows some PE (bottom pic). In the pics you can see the undata and purple stylo (lights were still ramping so it wasn't at full extension yet) looks completely happy. A sunset monti I got from Ty a while back is doing great and continuing to grow and encrust. The green whatever it is shows signs of the flesh coming off and waving in the flow. I noticed all of this starting around Tues the 7th. Would all this be due to the changes over the last two weeks? Also, remember on the 26th my apex went down at 12:30am and the tank sat for about 13 hrs till I got everything back up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Sounds like some corals just need to get recovered from the power loss to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 I hope that's all it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 I'd let your alk start dropping back down to whatever level that it looked happiest before. I fear perhaps that your tank is so new and you have no fish in there that your nutrient levels are so low that you're basically running an ULN system. With ULN systems, its best to keep the alk below 8.0 as you'll end up with burnt tips otherwise. As I mentioned before, I wouldn't put too much stock in the mille frags that are from maricultures. They have a very low survival rate comparatively to other maricultures so they may not be indicative of any non-suitable conditions in your system. They have a high chance of just dying all by themselves. What are your nitrate levels? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted June 12, 2016 Author Share Posted June 12, 2016 Nitrate is showing 0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Maybe ghost feed the tank? Dose aminos? Dose nitrates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted June 12, 2016 Author Share Posted June 12, 2016 I ghost feed everyday. Maybe I'm not feeding enough. I usually feed one cube per day. More than half go to the QT tank, about 1/4 to the softy tank and the rest into the big tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted June 25, 2016 Author Share Posted June 25, 2016 Ty hooked me up again! So far they're looking pretty happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 First rule of frag club is you don't talk about it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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