Beaver's Crazy Reef

sorry to barge in... Firstly, sorry to hear abt ick.

2nd. QT for the fishes is still not running? It has been told so many times that it might even qualify for cliche. But adding fish w/o QT is asking for trouble.. food and garlic are preventers not cure.

But nice swift action... taking pain in design has paid off.. u could swiftly make the changes...
 
Mpek said:
Oyyyy....that's something I don't ever like to hear.. I just recently fought off an ich outbreak that killed half of my fish. I started making my own food with selcon, vita-chem, nori, and medicating it with Dr G's bacterial and parasitic remedies. Worked like a charm! I'm now starting to repopulate my reef. I also had a micro-bubble problem for a bit with my SRO XP-3000 in sump....I ended up putting a media bag on the return of the skimmer and it worked flawlessly. I gotta look at yours again to see if I have any suggestions for you.
Anyway, Get some pic's up brotha! We wanna see what your tank looks like now! lol
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I planning to make my own food in the future too.I would love to see a pic of what you have done with your skimmer. Pics to follow soon as cyano has almost gone completely.Sorry to keep you waiting that much.


unchin said:
Sorry to hear about the ich. Love your rockscape though!
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thanx bro!

Alaukik said:
sorry to barge in... Firstly, sorry to hear abt ick.

2nd. QT for the fishes is still not running? It has been told so many times that it might even qualify for cliche. But adding fish w/o QT is asking for trouble.. food and garlic are preventers not cure.

But nice swift action... taking pain in design has paid off.. u could swiftly make the changes...
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Hello my friend!Long time no talk.

Quarantine is not up yet due to luck of time.
However I intend my quarantine mostly for corals.I hope I had the space for two quarantines but living in an appartment this is not the case.I am trying to figure a way (space actully )

I consider fish quarantine to be mostly for letting the fish to get strong and to avoid big stress rather that preventing whitespot.

How many case have you heard that people quarantine the fish and end up with ick in their tanks. I have come to believe that you cant actually eliminate ick but that just me.

PS. How is your tang going?
 
Crazy_Beaver said:
I planning to make my own food in the future too.I would love to see a pic of what you have done with your skimmer. Pics to follow soon as cyano has almost gone completely.Sorry to keep you waiting that much.





thanx bro!



Hello my friend!Long time no talk.

Quarantine is not up yet due to luck of time.
However I intend my quarantine mostly for corals.I hope I had the space for two quarantines but living in an appartment this is not the case.I am trying to figure a way (space actully )

I consider fish quarantine to be mostly for letting the fish to get strong and to avoid big stress rather that preventing whitespot.

How many case have you heard that people quarantine the fish and end up with ick in their tanks. I have come to believe that you cant actually eliminate ick but that just me.

PS. How is your tang going?
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Sorry abt that... I was busy myself... Appraisal process just completed. and BONUS will be distributed this month:dance:.. and will be converted to tangs, anthias and corals shortly... :dance::dance:

I will send some pics of the tangs.. I got my regals at abt 1.5in and now they are close to 4 in (in abt 6 months, i might add)... planning to add more soon. Winter is stocking time here.:lmao::lmao:

QT can be more than for just ICK. you can train them for food. try many feeding timings, so that it can suit you later. I actually like to train them to live in a grp. i kept my fishes in QT for 2.5 months (regal batch) as for the end of the QT cycle 6th regal was rejected from their group and was mistreated. Now that can be a big problem in the tank. barricaded the regals in tank while 6th ate its way. Finally hungry as hell they accepted her,she also grew in that time.

Coming to "Return of the ICK". In India, sometimes we get very sick fishes. the moment u put em in water and they start their tantrum. ICK fungal bacterial all together. But once cured by means, they dont get sick again. unless u put a disturbance (in the form of new fish or invertebrate which was previously housed with fish). But the treatment has to be in QT. HOw to cure them is different topic altogether.

Since yours was a new setup.. adding only healthy fish would have removed this pain.. and you are rite. Once ick gets hold in the tank, it takes long time to escape.
 
Here are the pic's you asked for

Here are the pic's you asked for

Okay...this took a few for me to figure out. All I did was add a filter media bag onto the return of the skimmer to get rid of those microbubbles. My skimmer and whatnot seems really dirty but that's only after 4 days and I felt like relaxing. Don't judge me! lol
Had to add a pic of the tank too. :)
 

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Mpek said:
Okay...this took a few for me to figure out. All I did was add a filter media bag onto the return of the skimmer to get rid of those microbubbles. My skimmer and whatnot seems really dirty but that's only after 4 days and I felt like relaxing. Don't judge me! lol
Had to add a pic of the tank too. :)
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Hi Mpek

Thanx for taking the time with the pictures.Amazing tank BTW

Sorry for my late reply but I ve been really busy traveling with work and working till late.

Your solution looks very simple and something I could do immediately.

The thing is that I noticed that even with the skimmer off I have some microbubles which is a PITA. I have to further investigate that.

Anyways I ve been super busy but a few things have changed in the tank.

I will update everyone when I am done....
 
no problem brotha and thank you! very simple and it also helps with crud that the skimmer shoots back out of the return. gotta clean it every two or three days but no biggie. I also put another filter pad before the return section to help with those bubbles. works like a charm. when you post some pics of your filtration setup we'll all put our heads together and come up with a solution. :-)
 
Mpek said:
no problem brotha and thank you! very simple and it also helps with crud that the skimmer shoots back out of the return. gotta clean it every two or three days but no biggie. I also put another filter pad before the return section to help with those bubbles. works like a charm. when you post some pics of your filtration setup we'll all put our heads together and come up with a solution. :-)
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Thanx for the support.

Further investigation showed that my return pump creates microbubles as-well.

I noticed some salt creep where the propeller casing meets the body .There is no water leakage just a small amount of salt creep.My guess is that being external a tiny gap creates some sort of venturi effect pulling air into the system and spitting microbubles in the end of the line.


BTW I am almost done with the rescape.

Totaly different approach and look to the tank.

I am very happy with it. I have asked a friend to come and shoot some pictures with his camera as I cant get any good pictures with my iphone
 
I LIKE ITTTT! Good job bud! I'm still amazed that you built this tank yourself. I'm a terrible handyman. lol
Looks awesome!
 
the aquascaping really is my favorite part. you did a great job with it. I'm always critical of peoples decisions on aquascaping, but you're is awesome!

How are all the fish doing? any new additions?
 
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owenspackman said:
the aquascaping really is my favorite part. you did a great job with it. I'm always critical of peoples decisions on aquascaping, but you're is awesome!

How are all the fish doing? any new additions?
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Thanx Owen, appreciated !

Fish wise unfortunately I lost my powder blue during the rescape, it suddenly stopped feeding and even though I put him on the refugium so he can be alone with lot of macro algae he didn't recover

Other than that all the others are fine and I have added a bicolor fox face
 
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