Good news, BAD news! Argggg!!!

[ek9vboi]

Just another update/whoring of my tank. Its not all that, but I'm happy... for now.

I went to Reef Life today and picked up 10lbs of Tonga Branch LR and began the tear down the tank. Overall it looks nice, much better then when I had it before. Most of you can agree:

Some of the old rocks were placed in the refugium, what made me sad was that I had to put a nice big piece of LR with mushrooms and xenia in the refugium as well. No light for it right now, but I am trying to find a nice fixture to buy for it.

I believe the tank has around 40-50lbs of LR in it now. I really wanted to buy the torch coral as well as a sun coral that Reef Life had, but came to my senses to do research before buying! Plus I wanted my AC Jr.

Bad news is my 2 clowns caught ICH! Out of no where, I have no idea what happen. All I know is that it began after the put in the sump. Not sure if it was adding 10-13g in at one time or if it was the natural seawater that I bought from a LFS. I am feeding the clowns with garlic, so I hope it goes away. Would a cleaner shrimp help my clowns out? Does anyone know a place that has them for cheap and in a decent living condition. Most of the places I have recently visited, the corals are dying or something else is. Its just horrible.

Also, this bug looking this isn't good is it? Looks like its up to no good.

Thats all for now. Thanks for looking.

 

[Flamehawk]

Hi, that looks like a chiton. JOHNNY

 

[Ludwigia73]

Johnny's right, it's a chiton. It eats algae and detritus, albeit extremely slowly. It will also eat coralline, but not that you'd notice. They get big, but I've never caught one of mine growing in the tank.

 

[thesaent14]

EK9 you have to call me about the clonwns i have the solution to you problem

 

[ek9vboi]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7693991#post7693991 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by thesaent14
EK9 you have to call me about the clonwns i have the solution to you problem

lol, you really want me to call you huh? j/k... looks like the garlic is helping them big time. I got a new cleaner shrimp today from Fish of Eden too. Nice size... just great!

Oh yeah, I got my refractometer and my salinity is at 1.029! holy f**K, doing water change tomorrow hopefully. Also found out my calcium was off the charts... 520 off!!! Its a good thing Jack @ Fish of Eden was there to help me out. I thought it was the seachem test kit that was off.

 

[thesaent14]

sorry for trying to help you i don't relly type in english but i do know how to speack inglish i was just trying to help it don't mater if you call or not i was having the same problem and it looks like ich but is not is a natural fongus they all have and some times it comes out if they eating is not ich

 

[ek9vboi]

You might be correct on that, I forgot to feed them one day and the next thing I saw were the white specs on them. PM me your number and I will call you next time, I just don't want to be a hassle when I call you everytime something is not correct. lol

 

[thesaent14]

its ok i call alot of my freans to ask thats why we come to RC to get answers to are problems

 

[chrisaggie]

the tank looks great, keep us updated!

 

[ek9vboi]

I got my JBJ Auto top off today. Looks just like new like the member on RC said. Came with everything still in the box as well as a aqua lift pump. Thing are starting to look better.

Tested my calcium, alk, and pH. calcium is at a high 500! but th alk and pH are fine. salinity is high, but i will be doing a 5g waterchnage tonight.

Thanks Jack @ Fish of Eden. Great guy and very knowledgeable.