Omega_rains
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Beautiful Tank.... You did an awesome job with that rock work..
Campbell's 120x36x30 In-Wall FOWLR
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I put a Dwyer air flow meter to it and ran some tests.
ccampbell57
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Quick update- the skimmer is awesome. So very happy. The pictures are of 3 days of skimmate.
pookstreet
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Dude, what's up with all the pink? You running pink LEDs down there? :lol:
ccampbell57
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LOL! I just noticed the coloration...damn iPhone.
Hexagon Mop
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Chris, love the tank. I would love to see the tank sometime. I'm on the other side of town from you.
ccampbell57
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Anytime! I always love talking about my obsession with others!
ccampbell57
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Update 7/25/11
Well, I have been really busy at work in Dallas so I have been out of the boards and have seriously neglected my thread. Everything is doing really good with the big tank. The only bad news on the tank in the many months that it has been up and running is losing my Conspicuous Angel. She had been with me for over 18 months. She stopped eating all of a sudden and I did everything I could do for 4 weeks. I have come to the harsh realization in this hobby that fish just die and just because it is just your favorite fish and you pamper it every day, it is out of your hands. I have a freezer full of expensive fish, but this one was hard. She is still in my main freezer and I look at her daily...
Needless to say I am on the hunt for another 1-2 conspics to replace the original...I am looking out till End of August and September...stay tuned.
For the good news, I finally added my long time QT members:
4" true hawaiian Tinkers
2.5" Tinkers Hybrid
2" & 2.5" goldflake angel pair
There was a lot of bickering with the wrought iron and the tinkers.. If I had not QT'd the fish for as long as I did, neither of the new butterflies would have made it.
Here is a fun video I had my wife shoot while I fed the tank...this is why I love my fish, you just cant do this with coral
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Well, I have been really busy at work in Dallas so I have been out of the boards and have seriously neglected my thread. Everything is doing really good with the big tank. The only bad news on the tank in the many months that it has been up and running is losing my Conspicuous Angel. She had been with me for over 18 months. She stopped eating all of a sudden and I did everything I could do for 4 weeks. I have come to the harsh realization in this hobby that fish just die and just because it is just your favorite fish and you pamper it every day, it is out of your hands. I have a freezer full of expensive fish, but this one was hard. She is still in my main freezer and I look at her daily...
Needless to say I am on the hunt for another 1-2 conspics to replace the original...I am looking out till End of August and September...stay tuned.
For the good news, I finally added my long time QT members:
4" true hawaiian Tinkers
2.5" Tinkers Hybrid
2" & 2.5" goldflake angel pair
There was a lot of bickering with the wrought iron and the tinkers.. If I had not QT'd the fish for as long as I did, neither of the new butterflies would have made it.
Here is a fun video I had my wife shoot while I fed the tank...this is why I love my fish, you just cant do this with coral
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kinlayan
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Very sorry to hear about your conspic i also lost my female crosshatch to a parasitic isopod after 3 years with me, yes sometimes you have to learn to accept tragedy in this hobby - a fish doesnt know its value, but murphy's law is the expensive ones are always more likely to die.
Great vid!
Great vid!
roktsintst
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AWESOME!!!
Very nice Chris... You have an incredible collection of fish...
Very nice Chris... You have an incredible collection of fish...
ironeagle2006
In Memoriam
Chris my wife always called me crazy when I fed my Tessalated eel by hand also. She hated that thing. But It was her FISH.
pookstreet
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Did the emp grunt at the 1:11 mark??? Freakin' awesome!!! I miss my Xmas emp.
ccampbell57
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I hate this damn Murphy
Fish may die but their memories are foreverThanks Ryan! I have 10 more female bartletts getting ready in QT...let the craziness begin
That is something I have toyed with putting in here. I would love to get a male Hawaiian dragon eel...maybe
LOL! I am glad you picked up on that. He is a loud sucker. My wife was a good 5' from the tank and you could hear him. When I come down in the middle of the night and startle him he grunts till i turn the lights off...he is definitely an old grumpy man.
angelfish7
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Just awesome Chris! I love the combo of angels, b/f and anthias. Been thinking of adding some bartlets myself after my scribbled gets out of qt! Thats if she's makes it. Still hasn't ate anything! Sorry bout the conspic Angel.
geaux xman
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Thats very unfortunate about the conspic.
Can you share how you typically QT anthias fish?
i hypo'd one time and ended up losing all 4 carberryis on the 5th week. maybe i was pushing it.
i keep hearing not to use copper on them. very low dose for an extended period perhaps?
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ccampbell57
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I QT all my fish the exact same way. They all come in and get a 10-15 minute dip in Prazi. I place them in one of the 55g QT. I get them eating within the first 3-5 days. Once they are eating prepare foods on a regular basis i administer 1/2 dose of cupramine. After a couple of days I add the other half dose of cupramine. I ensure that the dose stays at .5 for 14 days then take it down to .15-.25 for another 30-45 days. Once this is done I place them in the display.
I have done this with my first 12 bartletts, my Fuscipinnis, my lennardi, flame wrasses, etc etc.
Copper is bad or fish if you administer incorrectly. If done right you can copper any fish.
roktsintst
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So twice now, both times with expensive fish, the day after I dosed 1/2 cupramine, I lost my hybrid tinkeri/burgess/ flavo and my splendid fairy wrasse. Both had already gone through a week of prazi prior and were eating aggressively. I've put numerous other fish through cupramine w/out any problems including a conspic, ventralis, multibars venustus. Why do you think both of these rare fish died the next day?
ccampbell57
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Ryan - my best guess is that there was some spike in the tank when you dosed it or some issues with circulation? A fish dying 24 hours after dosing could be for a couple of reasons: (1) incorrect dosage, (2) dosage too fast -i.e. put all dose of copper in at a single time and the fish ingested a good %, (3) Expired copper, (4) mass die-off from copper treatment and loss of oxygen. (5) the fish had some internal parasites that died off quickly after dosing and basically caused the fish to be a ticking time bomb.
I watch the fish's reaction to the copper and am ready to do a 100% water change at any time.
In addition, I keep copper in my QT at all times. I feel that it is critical to keep anything from surviving long term after I move a fish.
I am baffled why you would have lost them immediately after though as I put my hybrid through a couple rounds of copper (one with the goldflakes initially, then another with the Tinkers when they were introduced), and there were no issues. In fact he had no loss in appetite which is quite normal.
As I said previously, it is the fish that we care about the most (typically the expensive ones) that bite the big one when treating or trying to handle.
I watch the fish's reaction to the copper and am ready to do a 100% water change at any time.
In addition, I keep copper in my QT at all times. I feel that it is critical to keep anything from surviving long term after I move a fish.
I am baffled why you would have lost them immediately after though as I put my hybrid through a couple rounds of copper (one with the goldflakes initially, then another with the Tinkers when they were introduced), and there were no issues. In fact he had no loss in appetite which is quite normal.
As I said previously, it is the fish that we care about the most (typically the expensive ones) that bite the big one when treating or trying to handle.
roktsintst
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Yeah, that is what I was thinking. I think my biggest mistake is not watching carefully when dosing because of my busy life style. I just dont have the time, which is a bad time to buy fish, especially rare ones. But the rare ones only come up so often so I grab them at first opportunity....
Live and learn I guess, I just hate that my fish collection would be so much closer to where I want it had they lived. And you don't see those fish come up often.
And then there was my bellae's wrasse that went through 2 rounds of prazi and a full 3 weeks of cupramine only to scrape his mouth on something. It got infected and I never saw it again...
Live and learn I guess, I just hate that my fish collection would be so much closer to where I want it had they lived. And you don't see those fish come up often.
And then there was my bellae's wrasse that went through 2 rounds of prazi and a full 3 weeks of cupramine only to scrape his mouth on something. It got infected and I never saw it again...
ccampbell57
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I hear ya man. I lost my 2 baby bandits (1.5") in a similar fashion where they were just doing unreal and because of my stupidity I lost both of them. I would have loved seeing my tank with my trio
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