inaNYstateofmin
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I was hoping someone could help me.
I finally got my fish back into my 120 gallon display tank after dealing with Ich (it's been a long 9-10 weeks!). While the fish were in the hospital tank my husband and I installed an RO/DI unit, updated the filtration from a wet/dry to a sump with live rock, upgraded lighting, added live rock and base rock, got a better return pump and added circulation pumps and finally upgraded to a reef octopus skimmer. I have been slowly adding my fish back (there were only 4 left) and finally got the last one back in last night and everything was going great. Until I had a thought today....These were all fish I selected when my plan was to run just a FOWLR. So I double checked and of course my favorite fish is highly cautioned against. I have a Heniochus varius (humphead bannerfish) that I absolutely adore and now it looks like I can't keep her if I want to get corals.
So just to double verify----- she isn't reef safe, right?
I'm pretty sure I can trap her (she LOVES to eat and is very curious about everything), but I will really hate to see her go. I also really wish I had this thought yesterday BEFORE I put her in the DT. UGH!
Thanks for any help! I just need to be sure I'm doing the right thing before I work on trapping her.
I finally got my fish back into my 120 gallon display tank after dealing with Ich (it's been a long 9-10 weeks!). While the fish were in the hospital tank my husband and I installed an RO/DI unit, updated the filtration from a wet/dry to a sump with live rock, upgraded lighting, added live rock and base rock, got a better return pump and added circulation pumps and finally upgraded to a reef octopus skimmer. I have been slowly adding my fish back (there were only 4 left) and finally got the last one back in last night and everything was going great. Until I had a thought today....These were all fish I selected when my plan was to run just a FOWLR. So I double checked and of course my favorite fish is highly cautioned against. I have a Heniochus varius (humphead bannerfish) that I absolutely adore and now it looks like I can't keep her if I want to get corals.
So just to double verify----- she isn't reef safe, right?
I'm pretty sure I can trap her (she LOVES to eat and is very curious about everything), but I will really hate to see her go. I also really wish I had this thought yesterday BEFORE I put her in the DT. UGH!
Thanks for any help! I just need to be sure I'm doing the right thing before I work on trapping her.
