jeffbrig
Premium Member
Well, we're on our third round of ich since the first batch appeared a few weeks ago. Every 7-9 days seems to bring a new wave. Most of the fish are showing little or no effects, but the achilles and powder blue (the sensitive acanthurus tangs) are pretty much covered head to toe in it. Neither appears to be in truly dire shape, but it's bad enough we weren't happy to leave them in those conditions.
We moved around a bunch of stuff this weekend. Corals that were QTing in the 10g got moved to the newly setup 12g nano. The fish in the 55g QT were moved into the 10g, and are being brought out of hyposalinity. They'll stay there until the tank has been fallow for 6 weeks. The fish from the 250g are moving into the 55g to begin hyposalinity treatment.
Through a combination of trapping and netting we captured 7 fish pretty easily. Then we had to roll up our sleeves for those last 3. We built a tank divider wall out of egg crate and gutter guard, and cornered the yellow tang, anthia, and fridmani at the end of the tank with the small rock pile (divide and conquer, right?). We put in the divider and started pulling rocks from the small pile into a rubbermaid bin. We got the tang and anthia netted pretty easily, but the fridmani seemed to have disappeared.
After a half hour of searching through the bin, moving every rock twice, we finally found the fridmani on the other side of our divider wall....with the rest of the rock and all of the coral. He must have found his way out around one of the edges. We're leaving the fish trap in overnight, and we'll bait it tomorrow evening and see if we can catch him. If not, the rocks will go back in, we'll try to corner him and reinstall the divider. Really trying to avoid emptying the entire tank to catch this last fish.
This is a royal PITA, let me tell you.
-Jeff (and Christy)
p.s. we accidentally created a couple of frags that we'll be looking to get rid of shortly. I'm planning to mount them and we'll see what makes it.
We moved around a bunch of stuff this weekend. Corals that were QTing in the 10g got moved to the newly setup 12g nano. The fish in the 55g QT were moved into the 10g, and are being brought out of hyposalinity. They'll stay there until the tank has been fallow for 6 weeks. The fish from the 250g are moving into the 55g to begin hyposalinity treatment.
Through a combination of trapping and netting we captured 7 fish pretty easily. Then we had to roll up our sleeves for those last 3. We built a tank divider wall out of egg crate and gutter guard, and cornered the yellow tang, anthia, and fridmani at the end of the tank with the small rock pile (divide and conquer, right?). We put in the divider and started pulling rocks from the small pile into a rubbermaid bin. We got the tang and anthia netted pretty easily, but the fridmani seemed to have disappeared.
After a half hour of searching through the bin, moving every rock twice, we finally found the fridmani on the other side of our divider wall....with the rest of the rock and all of the coral. He must have found his way out around one of the edges. We're leaving the fish trap in overnight, and we'll bait it tomorrow evening and see if we can catch him. If not, the rocks will go back in, we'll try to corner him and reinstall the divider. Really trying to avoid emptying the entire tank to catch this last fish.
This is a royal PITA, let me tell you.
-Jeff (and Christy)
p.s. we accidentally created a couple of frags that we'll be looking to get rid of shortly. I'm planning to mount them and we'll see what makes it.
