JapanReef - 450 gallon In-Wall system
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The BTA triple split a few months back. One split went on a walkabout to halfway across the tank and came back to near its original colur. The One of the splits is low and a bit sickly looking (white) but I'm sure it will colour up in time. My sump is full of clones. There's about 7 in there and most are pretty big. You can have as many as you want. 
End of week 2 Cupramine treatment. The 5 remaining Royal Grammas are doing well and eating like pigs despite the treatment. I'm sticking to a rigid 10g water change every Sunday and Wednesday. When I change the water I add 2.5ml of Cupramine so I'm redosing at 0.6mg/l to take into account any copper absorption from the LR. Dosing Pimafix with each WC too. One of the fish has a badly scarred head from some kind of fungal infection but seems to be clearing up slowly. It was the least active fish but is out and about and eating now.
Yep. That makes 25 fish now. Hope they become active community fish.
So I looked back over this thread and it came back to life on page 24 in March last year. I feel I've achieved a lot in this past year. I had 14 fish at that point and a very neglected tank and waning interest. Now I have my Emperor back, Clarki pair and some new additions like the Foxface pair and Niger trigger - plus a new aquascape and Tunzes. Still a long way to go though.
So a Regal Angel pair, some kind of Tang (Blonde Naso maybe), a trio of wrasses (Christmas, Melanarus, Exquisite, PinkFace, Ornate etc), pair of Yellowhead Sleeper Gobies, harem of Bartletts and lastly a Clown Tang. Around 40 is the goal.
So I looked back over this thread and it came back to life on page 24 in March last year. I feel I've achieved a lot in this past year. I had 14 fish at that point and a very neglected tank and waning interest. Now I have my Emperor back, Clarki pair and some new additions like the Foxface pair and Niger trigger - plus a new aquascape and Tunzes. Still a long way to go though.
So a Regal Angel pair, some kind of Tang (Blonde Naso maybe), a trio of wrasses (Christmas, Melanarus, Exquisite, PinkFace, Ornate etc), pair of Yellowhead Sleeper Gobies, harem of Bartletts and lastly a Clown Tang. Around 40 is the goal.
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Yep. That makes 25 fish now. Hope they become active community fish.
So I looked back over this thread and it came back to life on page 24 in March last year. I feel I've achieved a lot in this past year. I had 14 fish at that point and a very neglected tank and waning interest. Now I have my Emperor back, Clarki pair and some new additions like the Foxface pair and Niger trigger - plus a new aquascape and Tunzes. Still a long way to go though.
So a Regal Angel pair, some kind of Tang (Blonde Naso maybe), a trio of wrasses (Christmas, Melanarus, Exquisite, PinkFace, Ornate etc), pair of Yellowhead Sleeper Gobies, harem of Bartletts and lastly a Clown Tang. Around 40 is the goal.
You have done a lot! I like your upcoming fish list. You will love the Blonde Naso. Mine is a pig and comes to the front of the tank when he sees me!
Went to the UK with a month and took the family. Father-in-law looked after the tank and it came through unscathed.
4 Royal Grammas survive, only see 3 for the most part.
The larger Foxface turned on the smaller Foxface about 3 months ago after living in harmony for a year. The smaller Foxface lived in hiding for about 2 months, venturing out to grab some food and being chased away. I didn't think it would make it but over the last few weeks it has started to stick up for itself and is back in the community.
Had a strange experience with the Vodka dosing. I was finding that my pumps were starting to become clogged very quickly. For instance the main return pump once went without a clean for 2 years and I was now cleaning it weekly so it would provide enough flow through the skimmer. The Tunzes were getting clogged and putting out no flow. So I stopped dosing vodka completely, cleaned teh rturn pump and sure enough, two weeks later it is still providing enough flow. I didn't clean the Tunzes and 2 weeks ago, when I stopped dosing Vodka I could hardly see any surface agitation from the Tunzes. But little by little it has been increasing every day and now they are at about 80% power (up from 10%) and I didn't clean them, just stopped dosing Vodka.
So even though I wasn't seeing any visible signs of bacterial slime it was building up in the pumps. I was dosing almost 100ml per day when I stopped. I knocked up a new bactch of VSV that has more Vinegar than before (maybe 35%) and I'm dosing 40ml twice a week now. I might up it to 3 times a week but right now, as can be seen by the improvement in the Tunzes, the tank is breaking down the excess bacteria in the tank, which I hope is also eating nitrates.
During this Vodka overdosing many anenomes bleach, I've almost lost the big Frogspawn, and the two biggest heads of the toadstool rooted off. That Frogspawn almost died once before but grew back very quickly so I'm hoping it will do the same again.
So Voddy dosers - beware!
Right now I'm cranking up the QT again as I will be receiving a Scarus Quoyi Parrotfish tomorrow.
4 Royal Grammas survive, only see 3 for the most part.
The larger Foxface turned on the smaller Foxface about 3 months ago after living in harmony for a year. The smaller Foxface lived in hiding for about 2 months, venturing out to grab some food and being chased away. I didn't think it would make it but over the last few weeks it has started to stick up for itself and is back in the community.
Had a strange experience with the Vodka dosing. I was finding that my pumps were starting to become clogged very quickly. For instance the main return pump once went without a clean for 2 years and I was now cleaning it weekly so it would provide enough flow through the skimmer. The Tunzes were getting clogged and putting out no flow. So I stopped dosing vodka completely, cleaned teh rturn pump and sure enough, two weeks later it is still providing enough flow. I didn't clean the Tunzes and 2 weeks ago, when I stopped dosing Vodka I could hardly see any surface agitation from the Tunzes. But little by little it has been increasing every day and now they are at about 80% power (up from 10%) and I didn't clean them, just stopped dosing Vodka.
So even though I wasn't seeing any visible signs of bacterial slime it was building up in the pumps. I was dosing almost 100ml per day when I stopped. I knocked up a new bactch of VSV that has more Vinegar than before (maybe 35%) and I'm dosing 40ml twice a week now. I might up it to 3 times a week but right now, as can be seen by the improvement in the Tunzes, the tank is breaking down the excess bacteria in the tank, which I hope is also eating nitrates.
During this Vodka overdosing many anenomes bleach, I've almost lost the big Frogspawn, and the two biggest heads of the toadstool rooted off. That Frogspawn almost died once before but grew back very quickly so I'm hoping it will do the same again.
So Voddy dosers - beware!
Right now I'm cranking up the QT again as I will be receiving a Scarus Quoyi Parrotfish tomorrow.
Small update.
The Quoyi Parrotfish went in a few days ago. I made an Isolation box out of wood frame and BBQ grills. Seemed to do the trick. I released it yesterday and this morning was swimming around in the community. The yellow tang side swiped it a few times and last night the Niger Trigger had strong words when the Quoyi came close to the Trigs sleeping cave but other than that, seems to be okay. Haven't seen it since the afternoon as I've been working on finally putting up a sliding rail for the lighting fixture. I made a lot of noise and most fish were in hiding. I hope it will be out again tomorrow.
Here is the Quoyi in QT:
This is the isolation box. In hindsight, a tad big, but did the job:
Yes, front hasn't been cleaned in ages.
Few images of the slider. For 5 years I put up with the old hanging system that just drove me crazy. Changing bulbs, cleaning, maintenance, work involving large tank access - was always a dreaded nightmare. Now I just slide it across, unhook it and pull it above the return plumbing and lower it down. I'm going to redo that return plumbing that has always bothered me too.
The chained is just looped up with an elastic band and sits on the top of the hood. Not ideal, but not sure what else to do with it.
I also moved the canopy ducting over the far end which is an added bonus access wise as it got in the way.
I have an acrylic cleaning mesh kit being shipped in. It was recommended to me by James at Envision Acrylics who made the tank way back 5 years ago. If I can get the front looking great I think I'm ready to start taking the tank to the next level with a calcium reactor and more coral.
The Quoyi Parrotfish went in a few days ago. I made an Isolation box out of wood frame and BBQ grills. Seemed to do the trick. I released it yesterday and this morning was swimming around in the community. The yellow tang side swiped it a few times and last night the Niger Trigger had strong words when the Quoyi came close to the Trigs sleeping cave but other than that, seems to be okay. Haven't seen it since the afternoon as I've been working on finally putting up a sliding rail for the lighting fixture. I made a lot of noise and most fish were in hiding. I hope it will be out again tomorrow.
Here is the Quoyi in QT:
This is the isolation box. In hindsight, a tad big, but did the job:
Yes, front hasn't been cleaned in ages.
Few images of the slider. For 5 years I put up with the old hanging system that just drove me crazy. Changing bulbs, cleaning, maintenance, work involving large tank access - was always a dreaded nightmare. Now I just slide it across, unhook it and pull it above the return plumbing and lower it down. I'm going to redo that return plumbing that has always bothered me too.
The chained is just looped up with an elastic band and sits on the top of the hood. Not ideal, but not sure what else to do with it.
I also moved the canopy ducting over the far end which is an added bonus access wise as it got in the way.
I have an acrylic cleaning mesh kit being shipped in. It was recommended to me by James at Envision Acrylics who made the tank way back 5 years ago. If I can get the front looking great I think I'm ready to start taking the tank to the next level with a calcium reactor and more coral.
