A pic of my 75 g today 1 year details.

[tonym10]

Todays update.
Both tangs, firefish, royal gramas , and maroon clowns are doing great, they all love the garlic soaked flakes. No signs of Ich on any fish, no spots or scratching. The fish that showed signs of ich were the Royal Grammas and the Yellow tang, but they are all fie now, hope they stay this way over the next few weeks. The other fish never showed any signs .

 

[alljap]

Thanks for all the sharing. One question : Does raising the water temperature help prevent our fish getting ich? Or Keeping temp. at upper 70 or lower 80 will help?

 

[tonym10]

my temp is 80. I do not think it has any ich affect

 

[tonym10]

So far so good with the Ich and the garlic
Heres couple pics of the tangs

 

[NexDog]

Great to see an ich recovery success story.

 

[tonym10]

Ich update. 1-7 still feeding garlic soaked food, and still have had no signs of Ich recurring.

 

[Lures and Jigs]

Awesome tank!! I appreciate the step-by-step on your battle with ich, definately going to take notes. So sorry about your losses

 

[rjwilson37]

Some people say that the garlic does not work, but I have had great luck with it.

 

[Snail$Pace]

tonym10: Just looked at your opening post and your tank is beautiful! TOTM a coming... Love the photos too, I'm glad I found your thread.

 

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

Tony, everything looks fantastic!!!!!! Keep up the great work!!!!

Amanda

 

[tonym10]

Thanks everyone.
Upcoming changes to tank are:
New sump in adjacant room, sump will be 55g, acrylic, so I can easily drill it and glue baffles,the refugium will be built into the sump now, instead of a h.o.b refugium. I will use an Iwaki 55rlt return pump.
The Iwaki will also power the refugium and calium reactor. The T4 will continue to pump to the two sea swirls , but it will be on a closed loop. I am making the changes for total silence in my tank room, it is quiet now , but with the sump in my adjacent spare unfinished water room there will be no sump noise. The other reason is that I want more then one pump moving water in the tank for redundancy reasons if one should stop for no reason, which the T4 has done to me once. I also like the idea of not having so many pumps in sump, the refugium pump and the calcium feeding pump both need to be cleaned every few months. The Iwaki should only need to be cleanded twice/year , and I think the T4 will last longer between cleanings as a closed loop pump, as it will not be so close to the dosing of kalk water and the calcium reactor. This change over will take 1-2 months, but I am very excited about it.

 

[Mud Shrimp Moe]

Absolutely gorgeous. I have the same tank and stand, and yours is an inspiration for sure. I have serious envy of the refugium and see a similar addition to my tank as a future upgrade.

Can you comment on the kalkwasser and your auto top off and water changes? Was it really taking much time to do it manually or are you just really a big fan of automation?

 

[tonym10]

No, it doesn take much time, doing water changes manually does spill a little water thow. I like automation, and there is no mess. Also for topoff I like the continual dosing of kalk water all day in small amounts so as to not add 1-2 gallons all at once each day.

 

[tonym10]

1-16 Still no Ich , still feeding garlic.
I also got 2 new fish today, is just another lawnmower blennie. But the other is a banana wrasse, this fish is sooooooo coool.
I can't believe when I look at these pics that one of them has an aptasia in it. I thought I was rid of them .
I was looking for a sixline wrasse to help eat the flatworms, but the fish store in NJ did not have any, but they had this guy.Hopefully he will eat some flatworms.

 

[Flipturn88]

Target Mandarins love those flatworms. But your green mandarin probably would not tolerate another of a similar species in the same tank.

Your new Banana Wrasse is very cool. Watch out...he will eat shrimp and crustaceons, but you probably knew that already.

Kayla

 

[tonym10]

I know hes not totally reef safe, but at least he isnt a coral eater.
I lost my mandarin when I had the ich problem and I tried to move the rocks around to catch all the fish, which didnt work anyway, I do not know what caused him to die , but after moveing the rocks out then back in, I never saw my mandarin again.
Maybe I will try a target mandarin, do you see yours eat flatworms Flipturn?

 

[rjwilson37]

Awsome color on that Banana Wrasse!

 

[Flipturn88]

Maybe I will try a target mandarin, do you see yours eat flatworms Flipturn?

We have some of the same flatworms in one of our display tanks (at my LFS). The target mandarin we put in there a year or so ago now looks like he is going to explode he's so fat, and yes, I do see him eat the flatworms. HTH

Kayla

 

[tonym10]

I just finished my new sump. It is a 55 gallon acrylic tank I bought on ebay , then I glued the baffles where I wanted them , drilled lots of holes where I wanted them too. It is so nice having an acrylic sump rather then a glass sump. The sump is no longer under my tank , it is now in an unfinshed storage room next to the tank room where I make salt water and ro water.
I now use an Iwaki 55rlt pump as the return pump , it also supplys water to the refugium that is now in the sump and it also powers my calcium reacter.
My old Velocity T4 pump is still pumping to the two sea swirls , however it is now a closed loop pump.
So I now have two pumps instead of just one moving water.
My tank room is silent now, no noise at all, it was quiet before , but now silent.

 

[tonym10]

Before water