becon776
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O.k. I knew it was too good to be true.. Everything was perfect, imagine that.. Things were working out and I was like WOW this is too good to be true no algae... perfect water tests... fish eating fine... perfect.
HAH my tank stock = a small yellow tang, a royal gramma, two percs (from my old 20), a mandarin that loved mysyid, and a yellow watchman goby. A array of snails, purple tuxedo urchin, and a cleaner shrimp.
Of course I noticed some ick on the YT nothing too bad and he was being cleaned regularly by the shrimp. All of the sudden the royal gramma dies and the friggin hermits dragged him into a crevice at the bottom of the rockwork... I was like ok either destroy the rock stack for a little gramma or let things go and let the hermits have dinner.. I chose the latter within hours the mandaring dies, then shortly after the yellow tank kicks and then the clownfish. now the yellow watchman goby (who was the last fish added) has got the tank to himself) with ZERO signs of ick or anything else. Tank water checks out perfectly! Corals are all doing better than good including the couple sps pieces that I've got. Damn it!
I want to let the tank s just sit with corals so that the ick can run it's cycle and I'll be able to start fresh... but that darn watchman will never be caught and he could be carrying it and not showing it. Also I get very nervous not having a herbivore fish in the tank for too long. I don't even want to deal with a waft of PITA hair algae as I still have nightmares of that from my old 125 and I have had excellent luck with that so far.
I decided to do a healthy water change 20 gallons even though the water checks out perfect.
Jeez what's a guy to do?
HAH my tank stock = a small yellow tang, a royal gramma, two percs (from my old 20), a mandarin that loved mysyid, and a yellow watchman goby. A array of snails, purple tuxedo urchin, and a cleaner shrimp.
Of course I noticed some ick on the YT nothing too bad and he was being cleaned regularly by the shrimp. All of the sudden the royal gramma dies and the friggin hermits dragged him into a crevice at the bottom of the rockwork... I was like ok either destroy the rock stack for a little gramma or let things go and let the hermits have dinner.. I chose the latter within hours the mandaring dies, then shortly after the yellow tank kicks and then the clownfish. now the yellow watchman goby (who was the last fish added) has got the tank to himself) with ZERO signs of ick or anything else. Tank water checks out perfectly! Corals are all doing better than good including the couple sps pieces that I've got. Damn it!
I want to let the tank s just sit with corals so that the ick can run it's cycle and I'll be able to start fresh... but that darn watchman will never be caught and he could be carrying it and not showing it. Also I get very nervous not having a herbivore fish in the tank for too long. I don't even want to deal with a waft of PITA hair algae as I still have nightmares of that from my old 125 and I have had excellent luck with that so far.
I decided to do a healthy water change 20 gallons even though the water checks out perfect.
Jeez what's a guy to do?
