gflat65
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It may have been overkill, but I cleaned (hot water and vinegar) all the equipment in the tank between treatments, too. It just seemed like they could have still be there and with what I was going through, I figured I ought to find things to add to the routine... I had alot of loses, though.
I had been doing water changes out of the display every second or third day (5 gallon on ~15 gallon volume in QT). Then I did a 100% water change the day of the treatment by way of treating the tank and moving the corals to water change water from the display and thowing out the QT water (and rinsing the equipment and tank out with hot water and vinegar-let cool before adding water...). I moved the heater from the QT tank into the water change water from the display to make it the same temp as the QT tank to reduce temp stresses. I'm not sure where I went wrong, but had a lot of losses. I had large rocks with several corals encrusted in the QT (made it easier to do the whole rock...), so I started thinking the rock may be leaching Levamisole back out over the course of the week or something. Don't know if that is a likelihood, but sounded good at the time (too much humble pie at that point). I chipped the corals off the large rocks after the third treatment and had fewer loses by percentage (though no direct correlation). The skimmer would only pull a miniscule amount of brown slimy stuff and stop skimming all together (it's not the best-Berlin Turbo HOB). That may have helped, too. I'm sure there were some temp swings, too, with a 175 over a 20L. Maybe my mishaps will help someone else...
I had been doing water changes out of the display every second or third day (5 gallon on ~15 gallon volume in QT). Then I did a 100% water change the day of the treatment by way of treating the tank and moving the corals to water change water from the display and thowing out the QT water (and rinsing the equipment and tank out with hot water and vinegar-let cool before adding water...). I moved the heater from the QT tank into the water change water from the display to make it the same temp as the QT tank to reduce temp stresses. I'm not sure where I went wrong, but had a lot of losses. I had large rocks with several corals encrusted in the QT (made it easier to do the whole rock...), so I started thinking the rock may be leaching Levamisole back out over the course of the week or something. Don't know if that is a likelihood, but sounded good at the time (too much humble pie at that point). I chipped the corals off the large rocks after the third treatment and had fewer loses by percentage (though no direct correlation). The skimmer would only pull a miniscule amount of brown slimy stuff and stop skimming all together (it's not the best-Berlin Turbo HOB). That may have helped, too. I'm sure there were some temp swings, too, with a 175 over a 20L. Maybe my mishaps will help someone else...
